MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2013



Ambient Sites, Ephemeral Veils, and Inside Spaces

Diane Willow, Visiting Associate Professor, Media Lab

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: interest in reponsive social and spatial experience

Open, transparent, and readily visible, the architecture of the Media Lab becomes a spatial interface for locating research groups and individuals that occupy the building. Connective by nature, the offset strata, vast sight lines, and open aural expanse presents visitors with an immediate sense of being on the inside of a dynamic space and creative culture.  Shifting perspective to consider the life of the resident community inhabiting this space reveals an emphasis on the public experience, with an absence of participatory spatial modes of modulating visibility, voice, and presence. Ambient Sites, Ephemeral Veils, and Inside Spaces explores a series of propositions for in-situ transformations that re-shape interstitial common space in the Media Lab with temporary, reconfigurable, or mobile places for contemplation, quiet conversation, and small scale convergence. 

Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences
Contact: Diane Willow, WILLOW@MEDIA.MIT.EDU


Jan/15 Tue 01:00PM-04:00PM E14-548
Jan/16 Wed 01:00PM-04:00PM E14-548
Jan/17 Thu 01:00PM-04:00PM E14-548
Jan/18 Fri 01:00PM-04:00PM E14-548

Diane Willow - Visiting Associate Professor, Media Lab