# The intangible effects of walls

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxEindhoven
- Speaker: Alexandra Auer
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/alexandra_auer_the_intangible_effects_of_walls_sep_2020)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

More barriers exist now than at the end of World War II, says designer Alexandra Auer. And when you erect one wall, you unwittingly create a second -- an "us" versus "them" partition in the mind that compromises our collective safety. With intriguing results from her social design project focused on two elementary schools separated by a fence, Auer encourages us to dismantle our biases and regain perspective on all the things we have in common.

## Lectures

1. [The intangible effects of walls](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/alexandra_auer_the_intangible_effects_of_walls_sep_2020/0973a194855d), 12 min (TED's player)