Nenad Bach, Boris Ljubicic & Davor Pavuna at TEDxZAGREB April 2010

A lifetime of advocating for peace has led Nenad to question: What is Freedom?
Nenad has fused his interests in music and peace into a career that started with a hit album in his native Croatia, to performing and recording with Pavarotti and Bono (U2), to speaking at the United Nations advocating for peace during the Homeland War to an appearance at Woodstock ’94 and beyond.
As creator and editor-in-chief of the unique and multi-faceted website Croatian World Network (Croatia.org), Nenad continues to unite and support Croatia and friends of Croatia worldwide. He has brought the distinctive sounds of klapa (traditional man choirs) singing to the world by producing his series of Super Audio CDs entitled “Mediterranean Sounds – Croatia’s Mystic Voices.”
The journey continues with the Nenad Bach Band, a group recently formed to carry Nenad’s music to audiences throughout the world. Through his singing and songwriting Nenad’s goal is to spread the message of joy and universal peace.
In his TEDxZg presentation Nenad explored the concepts of private property, world peace and quality food, and how they relate to each other and to freedom.
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I have subordinated personal to the general – simply explains the designer Boris Ljubičić, persistent and uncompromising promoter of Croatian visual identity.
When you see a young man in the midst of Kenya, dressed in a shirt with a dices, it is easy to conclude that Boris Ljubičić succeeded in what initially seemed Don Quijote’s work. Author of two alternating squares popularly called cubes, created Croatian visual identity that’s recognized in the world.
This confirmed researcher in the field of visual communications and design, exposes annually in six most appreciated exhibitions and his works are published in world famous special editions, almanacs and magazines that determine the history of design in the world.
In 2002. Ljubičić launched an initiative to shape our continent – EUROPE 2020. His STUDIO INTERNATIONAL in Zagreb doesn’t carry the usual and commonly used name of the owner and designer. Since 2003. until 2005. he was president of the Croatian Society of Designers. He initiated the establishment of the Croatian Design Center. Is Holder of more than 100 awards and recognitions, mainly international. In 2010. he is one of the five jury members of the world’s largest competition for Logo for professionals and students, www.hiiibrand.com.
“At TEDxZagreb he spoke about the provocative messages – slogans on T-shirts, provocative posters and, of course, historical and contemporary Croatian design character. Many examples of this have not been previously published or seen. That’s all I’m revealing”
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Let us be the glue that connects lonely visionaries and brilliant individuals – once said recognized physicist and inventor Davor Pavuna. Many years have passed since and it would be good to hear whether any piece of the mosaic of advanced and successful Croatia, he dreamed of then, is well glued today.
Where to start, anyone would ask when confronted with Davor Pavuna CV and should summarized it in a few sentences. Is it good to start with doctorate in England, working in the French National Center for Scientific Researches, or to start from the present work in a professional teams for science and energy in U.S. or his projects in China? More than 150 scientific papers, a textbook on superconductivity, chairing conferences, lectures at the School of Polytechnics in Lausanne, speak enough.
Although he’s been living in Switzerland for twenty five years, Pavuna actively works to achieve better Croatia, joyful country of knowledge oriented to environment and new energy sources. Conformists in this context call him Utopian. Esspecially when they hear his opinion on that the nations should be managed by the physicists for their work is dedicated to the truth an for their understanding a higher degree of colerations that are now essential in planetary civilization.
As this connoisseur visionary, a physicist, polyglot and musician is not a stereotypical scientist for the title of his lecture he has chosen the challenge of universal language: Ah, Love!
“In my 18 minutes I will share with TED-fans the honest communication that text can not convey: that this miracle of existence I feel and live – proudly and passionately, in love – here and now!”

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