The first TEDxKI event!
From Mirage to Oasis
TEDxKI’s From Mirage to Oasis was the first TEDx event to be held at Karolinska Institutet in a decade! Presented virtually during the pandemic, the event seeked to explore the process of pursuit, discovery, and transformation through short varied talks and many opportunities to mingle with fellow attendees.
Videos from the event
From Mirage To Oasis | 2021 | The Art of Mental Health Advocacy | Matilda (crazyheadcomics) | TEDxKI
From Mirage To Oasis | 2021 | Rainbow Blood: The Need of an Evidence-Based Blood Donation Policy in Sweden | Tobias Ström | TEDxKI
From Mirage To Oasis | 2021 | How Public Is Our Public Land? | Paula Urbano | TEDxKI
From Mirage To Oasis | 2021 | Musical Performance | Paloma Ruiz de Castroviejo Teba | TEDxKI
From Mirage To Oasis | 2021 | To Solve a Crisis, Just Look at What Is Around You | Olle Bjerkås | TEDxKI
From Mirage To Oasis | 2021 | Musical Performance | Elena Küssner & Xinhe Xing | TEDxKI
SPEAKERS
Tobias Ström
HLR-instruktör ∘ Anestesisjuksköterska ∘ Founder of #regnbågsblod
Tobias is the founder and spokesperson of the national campaign “Rainbow blood” (Regnbågsblod) in Sweden. As healthcare personnel, Tobias became aware of the acute low blood supplies repeatedly impacting hospitals. Upon being rejected for blood donation purely because of his sexuality, Tobias started Rainbow Blood with the aim to achieve evidence-based blood donation, and overcome the stigma of donation policies that essentially exclude gay and bisexual men from donating blood today.
Olle Bjerkås
Artist ∘ Social Entrepreneur
Olle is an artist and social entrepreneur based in Stockholm with a passion for improvisation and self-organizing systems. He is a co-founder of the participatory festival The Borderland, a guerilla gardening enthusiast, a science communicator, a Guinness world record holder for the world’s largest fractal pyramid, and a member of the Blivande art collective. Working in the cross-sections between science, technology, art, and community, Olle is driven by the exploration of new ways of working, living, and being together.
Matilda
Visual Artist ∘ Mental Health Advocate
In 2018, she created crazyheadcomics, an Instagram account that strives to destigmatize and spread awareness about mental health issues through art. In the last three years, crazyheadcomics has grown at an astounding speed, now reaching nearly 500 thousand followers. Matilda draws from lived experience and creates colorful art, infographics, writing, and comics about her mental health journey with the intention of spreading awareness, breaking the stigma, and helping other people feel seen and validated.
Paula Urbano
Bildkonstnär
Paula Urbano is a visual artist, and one of five founding members of the interdisciplinary collective Mapping the Unjust City. The members of this Stockholm-based collective work in the fields of art, design, architecture, and aesthetics. Their collective work focuses on exploring civil rights in relation to land ownership, with an ambition to promote consciousness and action by visualizing and distributing information.
PERFORMERS
Elena Küssner
Elena is a first-year Biomedicine student and an avid climber. For her, music means connecting with people on a level beyond words, and taking them on a journey where the stresses of everyday life are forgotten.
Paloma Araceli Ruiz
Paloma is a current Master’s student in Biomedicine at Karolinska Institutet. Music is the best tool she has to express herself and she often calls it her daily therapy.
Xinhe Xiang
Xinhe is a second-year Biomedicine student at KI, and if that doesn’t work out, she’ll become a streamer or something. To her, music is like rocket science, except harder.