This TED Talk features set designer David Korens recorded live at TEDx Broadway 2018.

You're sitting there, and it's incredibly frustrating. It's maddening. You've been sitting there for hours, filling in those little tiny circles with your number two pencil,

this is a standardized test. You look up half-erased chalkboard. You can see that perfectly written cursive alphabet, the pull-down maps. You can hear tick, tick, ticking on the wall,

that industrial clock. But most importantly, you can feel that oppressive, fluorescent light, that death ray over your head.

And you can't take it anymore, but you don't have to because Miss Darling says,

okay, boys and girls, you're done.

So you jump up, I mean, there is nothing left of you but a vapor trail.

You move so quickly, you slam that little molded plastic chair and you sprint down the hallway.

You go past the lysol smell and the BO smell and the cubbies and you push the door and finally

you're outside. Oh, you can feel the wind on your face and the sun on your skin.

And most importantly, the big blue sky.

That is a revelation of space.

And making revelations of space is what I do.

I'm a designer and a creative director. and that's what I do for a living.

And I do it for all sorts of people in all kinds of different ways. And it might seem complicated,

but it's not. And over the next couple of minutes, I'm going to give you three ways that I think

you can move through your world so that you too can make revelations of space or at least

reveal them. Step one. Therapy. I know, I know,

I know, I know. Blah, blah, blah, blah. But seriously, therapy, you have to know why you're doing

these things, right? So when I got the job of designing Hamilton, I sat with Lynn and my mom, Miranda,

writer, Tommy Cale director, and I said, why are we telling this 246-year-old story?

What is it about the story that you want to say? And what do you want people to feel like when they

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