IAP 2013 Activities by Sponsor : Media Arts and Sciences

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

Camera Clinic

Randall Warnier, Camera Culture group

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/24
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

Digital photography has radically altered how images are made, delivered, perceived, and shown. This three-hour IAP seminar, developed in the Camera Culture group in the MIT Media Lab, is designed to enhance your ability to create consistently excellent digital photographs, using whatever camera you may have. The seminar covers four essential topics in good photography: (1) understanding camera operation; (2) seeing and using existing light; (3) learning how to photograph quickly, and (4) creating good visual composition through camera position. We also discuss effective techniques for making interesting photographs of people. Anyone interested in becoming a better digital photographer is invited to attend, and all levels of experience are welcome. Bring your camera (large, medium, or small) to the seminar. Please contact Taya Leary at taya@media.mit.edu for more information.

Friday January 25, from 4-7 p.m. or Friday February 1 from 4 to 7 p.m., both in room E15-363. Attend either session.

Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences
Contact: Taya Leary, taya@media.mit.edu

Camera Clinic

	Jan/25	Fri	04:00PM-07:00PM	E15-363
	Feb/01	Fri	04:00PM-07:00PM	E15-363

CityScience Workshop: LEGO and Grasshopper Methods for Compact Urban Neighborhood Design

Kent Larson, Director of City Science Initiative, Ryan Chin, Managing Director, City Science Initiative

Enrollment: First come, first served
Limited to 20 participants
Attendance: participants are encouraged, but not required to go to all sessions.
Prereq: This is a non-credit IAP course. Permission of instr.

Description The world is experiencing a period of extreme urbanization. In China alone, 300 million rural inhabitants will move to urban areas over the next 15 years. This will require building new infrastructure to accommodate the equivalent of the current population of the United States in just a few decades. It is a global imperative to develop systems that improve livability while dramatically reducing resource consumption. This workshop will explore the complex and interdependent nature of housing, mobility, energy, and food production systems for high-density cities.

Student Deliverables Students will explore urban systems at both the neighborhood scale (~1km²) and the block scale. Participants will develop a process for understanding and resolving a set interdependent urban parameters including building massing, space use, shared mobility networks, streetscape types, parks, urban food production, and energy generation nodes. Students may elect to work with either 3D physical models using color-coded LEGO bricks as an abstract framework, or parametric computation software such as Grasshopper. Precedents from existing cities and current urban theory will be used to inform the development of urban strategies that maximize livability and positive human interaction while minimizing the consumption of resources.

Research Areas Electric Mobility Ecosystems, Resilient Energy Systems, Transformable CityHomes, Urban Food Systems, and Streetscapes for Compact Urban Cells

Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences
Contact: Ryan Chin, E15-392, 617 253-6828, RCHIN@MIT.EDU

CityScience Workshop

Jan/08	Tue	01:30PM-04:30PM	E15-368, Bring your laptop
Jan/10	Thu	01:30PM-04:30PM	E15-368, Bring your laptop
Jan/15	Tue	01:30PM-04:30PM	E15-368, Bring your laptop
Jan/17	Thu	01:30PM-04:30PM	E15-368, Bring your laptop
Jan/22	Tue	01:30PM-04:30PM	E15-368, Bring your laptop
Jan/24	Thu	01:30PM-04:30PM	E15-368, Bring your laptop

The workshop will meet on Tuesday and Thursdays from 130-430pm for three weeks in January (8th, 10th, 15th, 17th, 22nd, 24th) and will meet in E15-368.

Kent Larson - Director of City Science Initiative, Ryan Chin - Managing Director, City Science Initiative

Health and Wellness Innovation 2013

John O Moore MD, PhD Candidate in Media Arts and Sciences

Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: UI/UX and software development skills are desirable

Details including registration - http://newmed.media.mit.edu/health-and-wellness-innovation-2013

What: Health and Wellness Innovation 2013 is a two week hackathon that brings together students, health professionals, and innovators from industry to build technology that empowers patients to take control of their health.

Why: Healthcare is in crisis; every year we spend more and get less. At the core of this crisis is a lack of patient engagement. Patients are motivated to be involved, but they are consistently undervalued and marginalized. Current efforts in consumer health are fragmented and fail to leverage a common infrastructure to promote each other’s success through positive feedback. They spend most of their time solving the same problems over and over again. As a result, their ability to empower patients is limited.

This annual event forges partnerships and springboards projects to success by encouraging participants to share core technologies and by providing mentorship to push the limits of innovation in every project. It brings together key clinical, research, and industry players so that we can solve real problems and achieve real change in healthcare.

It is an opportunity for students to immerse themselves in the field. They work with professionals and gain experience that can lead to research funding, grad school positions, or job opportunities.

Where: MIT Media Lab - We will occupy the 6th floor for the entire event

When: January 22 - February 1, 2013

Sponsor(s): Media Arts and Sciences
Contact: John Moore, tinyurl.com/bfwbe9h, healthandwellnessinnovation@mit.edu

Opening Day - Community Project Critique

	Jan/22	Tue	10:00AM-06:00PM	MIT Media Lab 6th fl

The goal of this day is for each team to present their project along with a plan for what is to be accomplished during the event. The entire community will critique the project and make suggestions about implementation. Each team should present questions to the community about roadblocks they anticipate or difficult decisions that they have to make. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be served.