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Frequent and varied events—such as lectures, colloquia, symposia, and workshops—play an active role in the continuing vitality and momentum of the Media Lab.

Aug 14 09 - Feb 14 10
Gordon Current Science & Technology Center

Special Program—Neri Oxman: At the Frontier of Ecological Design

Neri Oxman—photo credit, Mikey Siegel
Neri Oxman
Boston Museum of Science

Biology inspires Neri Oxman. Working at the interface of environmental design, science, and art, Oxman is inventing novel ways to design, fabricate, assemble, and maintain building "skins" so they can respond to load, light, and heat simultaneously. Think buildings that breathe, sweat, and grow. "I believe that, within two decades, buildings will be designed and constructed as biological tissues," says Oxman. (photo credit: Mikey Siegel)
Dec 04 09 3:30pm - 6:30pm
Bartos Theatre, MIT Media Lab

Community Innovators Lab

Participant:
Rick Borovoy (Center for Future Civic Media)
Participant:
Chuck Baker (Sahara Communications)
Participant:
Brooke Emerson (Translation LLC)
Participant:
Walter Mosley (Author)
Participant:
Chino Hardin (Prison Moratoriums Project)
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High school students from the Boston Youth Organizing Project

The Community Innovators Lab will host the launch of the Urban Lab, a project of MIT Mel King Fellow Malia Lazu. The Urban Lab being incubated at The Co-Lab is a study of the effectiveness of community organizing through new media and mobile platforms. Experts from the worlds of communications/marketing and social media will share their insights and discuss the challenges and opportunities of bringing community organizing into the 21st century.

Doors open at 3:30pm and dinner will be served at 5:30pm. Space is limited, please RSVP to mlazu [at] mit [dot] edu.
Dec 11 09 5:30pm - 6:30pm
MIT Museum

Illustrated Lecture: Debunking Hollywood's Holograms

V. Michael Bove, Jr.
Host:
MIT Museum

Think you’ve seen holograms in the movies and on TV? Michael Bove from the MIT Media Lab will prove you wrong. See "holograms" in clips from Star Wars, CNN, and elsewhere, compare those special effects with what real holograms are, then learn about the moving holograms being developed right now in MIT labs. In conjunction with the Sampling MIT exhibit.