At TEDxUSC, Jane Poynter tells her story of living two years and 20 minutes in Biosphere 2 an experience that provoked her to explore how we might sustain life in the harshest of environments.

They are subjected to the worst and harshest treatment at crossings and checkpoints.

Enabling environments

Be modest in thy bearing and subdue thy voice. Lo! the harshest of all voices is the voice of the ass.

Be modest in thy bearing and subdue thy voice. Lo! the harshest of all voices is the voice of the ass.

Very hostile environments, 150 C, 10,000 PSI.

One of those is in extreme environments.

Meetings in these kinds of environments are optional.

Because they get tested in nice, safe environments.

The Consortium had introduced telemedicine into extreme environments.

And be moderate in thy pace, and lower thy voice for the harshest of sounds without doubt is the braying of the ass.

And be moderate in thy pace, and lower thy voice for the harshest of sounds without doubt is the braying of the ass.

You only want clean environments in which to function.

The opening of the Nazi's siege was followed by one of the harshest winters in decades so cold the water in the canals froze solid.

How many habitations rebelled against their Lord's command and His apostles but We took them to severe task, and punished them with the harshest punishment.

How many habitations rebelled against their Lord's command and His apostles but We took them to severe task, and punished them with the harshest punishment.

These are not environments where you can build export manufacturing.

You like your fantasy environments, your fake, your Disneyland experiences.

Well, I intend to build these Self Organized Learning Environments.

We have environments where humidity is guaranteed throughout the year.

But these sorts of things are happening in many different environments.

The environments we are living in, more typically, are like these.

And be moderate (or show no insolence) in your walking, and lower your voice. Verily, the harshest of all voices is the voice (braying) of the ass.

And be moderate (or show no insolence) in your walking, and lower your voice. Verily, the harshest of all voices is the voice (braying) of the ass.

We spend an extraordinary amount of time in buildings that are extremely controlled environments, like this building here environments that have mechanical ventilation systems that include filtering, heating and air conditioning.

they will be brought before the Fire morning and evening. On the Day the Hour comes, a voice will cry , Mete out to Pharaoh's people the harshest punishment!

they will be brought before the Fire morning and evening. On the Day the Hour comes, a voice will cry , Mete out to Pharaoh's people the harshest punishment!

These extremophiles tell us that life may exist in many other environments.

But those environments are going to be widely spaced in this universe.

I wanted to create environments that moved and morphed like an illusionist.

So something can be done, even in such extreme environments as Afghanistan.

It will give particular attention to requirements for operations in emergency environments.

First, terrorism often thrives in environments in which human rights are violated.

So, as you all know, species lived in particular ecological niches and particular environments, and the pressures of those environments selected which changes, through random mutation in species, were going to be preserved.

Now, the environments like you see here, dusty environments in Africa where I grew up, and I loved wildlife, and so I grew up hating livestock because of the damage they were doing.

This is what I'm building now they're called SOLEs Self Organized Learning Environments.

I work in some of the most extreme cave environments on the planet.

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

It is not clear that such relocation is sustainable in very vulnerable environments.

And what I've done is I've looked at both environments like the coffeehouse I've looked at media environments, like the world wide web, that have been extraordinarily innovative I've gone back to the history of the first cities I've even gone to biological environments, like coral reefs and rainforests, that involve unusual levels of biological innovation and what I've been looking for is shared patterns, kind of signature behavior that shows up again and again in all of these environments.

And the world can come in with enabling environments and opportunities to do this.

And we can learn from that and create more interesting and inspiring architectural environments.

These programmes address environments where polymetallic sulphides and cobalt rich ferromanganese crusts are found.

This bacteria was discovered several years ago by a team of planetary biologists hoping to find clues to life on other planets by looking at one of the harshest conditions on ours.

What are the environments that lead to unusual levels of innovation, unusual levels of creativity?