Art and Architecture Tour of the Boston Public Library
Cynthia Stewart
Tue Jan 18, 05-06:30pm
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 12-Jan-2011
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Come tour the Boston Public Library (BPL) in Copley Square, one of America's architectural treasures. Designed by McKim, Mead and White and completed in 1895, the magnificent Renaissance Revival building marries art with architecture. In addition to mosaics, wall paintings, and murals, you'll see features made of nearly 20 varieties of marble. View the murals by Pierre Puvis de Chauvannes, John Singer Sargent, and John Elliott. Also see the work of Augustus St. Gardens, Federick MacMonnies, and Daniel Chester French, among others. Meet inside the Dartmouth St. entrance of the Boston Public Library at Copley Square.
Contact: Cynthia Stewart, 7-337, x3-4408, stewart@mit.edu
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Conceptual Design in Autodesk Revit Architecture Workshop
Larry Sass, Kyle Bernhardt, Sr. Prod. Mgr., Autodesk, Lira Nikolovska, Greg Demchak, Zachary Kron, All alum & Auto, Matt Jezyk, Autodesk
Mon Jan 24, Tue Jan 25, Wed Jan 26, 09am-04:00pm, 10-401
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: None
Explore the new Revit conceptual design workflows, specifically parametric modeling and performative design using AutodeskŪ RevitŪ. The first two days of the workshop will focus on the ins and outs of the new Revit form making and manipulation tools including creation of parametric rigs to drive and modify form, surface panelization, reporting parameters and adaptive components. The third day of the workshop will focus on analysis applied early into the design process (conceptual energy analysis, solar radiation, use of structural analysis plug-ins), and will also provide overview of API features such as Analysis Visualization Framework and Dynamic Updating.
30-day trial copies of Autodesk Revit Architecture will be available for those who do not already have this software. Educational copies of Revit are available for free for students and faculty and can be downloaded in advance from http://students.autodesk.com/
Overview of covered material per day
Day 1: Form Making and Manipulation, Parameters, Making Parametric Rigs
Day 2: Surface Rationalization and Panelization, Adaptive Component
Day 3: Performance-based Design, Conceptual Energy Analysis
Web: http://students.autodesk.com/
Contact: Larry Sass, 10-471M, x2-2023, lsass@mit.edu
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Institute Diversity Summit 2011
Edmund Bertschinger, Robbin Chapman
Mon Jan 24, 09am-04:00pm, E14-6th floor
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: None
The Institute Diversity Summit 2011 is a rare opportunity to increase communication and collaboration across MIT departments and groups. We invite the entire MIT community to join us in celebrating the varied contributions of underrepresented students, postdocs, staff and faculty!
Learn about and practice ways to interact within a diverse environment, help cultivate an inclusive environment, and reach out to bring in all kinds of talent to MIT
The program will include presentations, breakout sessions, networking opportunities, exhibits, and more!
Monday, January 24th from 9am to 4pm in E14-6th floor.
Refreshments will be provided
Contact: Edmund Bertschinger, 4-304, 253-4801, edbert@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Physics
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Post-Mortem Options: A Workshop on the Dead Body
Jae Rhim Lee
Tue Jan 25, 06-08:30pm, E15-209
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Join the Decompiculture Society for a free workshop exploring new and traditional technologies in the funeral industry. Presentations on options of burial, cremation and alternatives will be given by a diverse group of representatives, including:
- Joe Sehee, Green Burial Council
- Emma Crossen and Nancy Accola, Funeral Consumers Alliance of Eastern MA
- Captain Brad White, New England Burials at Sea, LLC
- Ruth Faas, Mourning Dove Studio
- Paul Harrington, Licensed Funeral Director and Former Manager, Forest Hills Crematory
- Jae Rhim Lee, Infinity Burial Project
The workshop is an opportunity to discuss some of the options and to navigate our cultural attitudes toward death. Further information on participating in the Decompiculture Society will be provided.
This workshop is sponsored by the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology and the Decompiculture Society, a newly formed group that promotes death awareness and acceptance and the cultivation of decomposing organisms. The Decompiculture Society is a component of the Infinity Burial Project, an art/design project by Jae Rhim Lee, with funding from the Creative Capital Foundation.
Web: http://www.jaerhimlee.com
Contact: Jae Rhim Lee, E15-213, jrlee@mit.edu
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RECYCLING CULTURE: Waste as a Creative Medium
Jegan Vincent de Paul, SM'09, Jessica Wheelock, SM'10
Mon Jan 24 thru Fri Jan 28, 12-03:00pm, W20-4th fl.Student A, Dec.28 one-day workshop
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 15-Jan-2011
Limited to 15 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Dec. 28 one-day exhibit of the workshop projects.
Recycling Culture is a week-long project-based workshop to examine the
contemporary crises of waste through critical and creative forms of
expression.
This intensive hands-on workshop asks participants to develop independent or collaborative projects to consider the culture, politics and processes
of waste production in an artistic medium, such as sculpture temporary installation, performance or photography. Participants will conceptualize and develop ways ofturning waste itself into a creative and constructive medium.
Please see http://recyclingculture.mit.edu for more
info on the workshop.
Contact: Jegan Vincent de Paul, E14, counter@mit.edu
Cosponsor: Student Art Association
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