Thursday, November 06, 2008
MIT VISUAL ARTS LECTURE SERIES - November 17, 2008
MONDAY NIGHTS @ VAP LECTURE SERIES
"THIS IS TOMORROW? Urban Utopia - Dystopia - Heterotopia"
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Monday, November 17 at 7:00 PM
"Remote Habitats"
Nicholas Makris, Lucy Orta, Armin Linke
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This cross-disciplinary lecture series includes speakers from art, architecture, urbanism and related research fields from around the world. These speakers will pose questions to start a discussion about imagining tomorrow’s urban “everyday life”- a topic that calls for a discourse beyond just formal disciplines.
Location:
Joan Jonas Performance Hall, MIT Visual Arts Program, Bldg N51-337, 3FL
265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
(see directions below).
For more information:
http://urbanutopias.mit.edu
http://visualarts.mit.edu
vap@mit.edu
617-253-5229
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SPEAKERS
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Nicholas Makris
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering; Director of the Laboratory for Undersea Remote Sensing at MIT.
How are new technologies, such as Ocean Waveguide Remote Sensing, enabling many new discoveries about remote undersea habitats? How will these technologies permit scientists to detect and monitor extra-terrestrial ecosystems, such as the vast ocean under the ice of Jupiter’s moon Europa? How is a habitat, remote in terms of time now being retrieved and sensed?
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Lucy Orta
Artist; fashion designer; Professor for Art, Fashion and the Environment at the London College of Fashion; Paris (France)
Is the idea of a settlement in a place like Antarctica – inherently isolated, inhospitable and uninhabitable - a tabula rasa that could lead to a “nation of humanity” and a peaceful land for those escaping economic or natural disasters, war or political intimidation?
"THIS IS TOMORROW? Urban Utopia - Dystopia - Heterotopia"
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Monday, November 17 at 7:00 PM
"Remote Habitats"
Nicholas Makris, Lucy Orta, Armin Linke
·······················································
This cross-disciplinary lecture series includes speakers from art, architecture, urbanism and related research fields from around the world. These speakers will pose questions to start a discussion about imagining tomorrow’s urban “everyday life”- a topic that calls for a discourse beyond just formal disciplines.
Location:
Joan Jonas Performance Hall, MIT Visual Arts Program, Bldg N51-337, 3FL
265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
(see directions below).
For more information:
http://urbanutopias.mit.edu
http://visualarts.mit.edu
vap@mit.edu
617-253-5229
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SPEAKERS
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Nicholas Makris
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering; Director of the Laboratory for Undersea Remote Sensing at MIT.
How are new technologies, such as Ocean Waveguide Remote Sensing, enabling many new discoveries about remote undersea habitats? How will these technologies permit scientists to detect and monitor extra-terrestrial ecosystems, such as the vast ocean under the ice of Jupiter’s moon Europa? How is a habitat, remote in terms of time now being retrieved and sensed?
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Lucy Orta
Artist; fashion designer; Professor for Art, Fashion and the Environment at the London College of Fashion; Paris (France)
Is the idea of a settlement in a place like Antarctica – inherently isolated, inhospitable and uninhabitable - a tabula rasa that could lead to a “nation of humanity” and a peaceful land for those escaping economic or natural disasters, war or political intimidation?
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