The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT), and its predecessor, the MIT Visual Arts Program (VAP), have hosted a Monday Night cross-disciplinary lecture series every Fall and Spring term since 2007.
Art Critic; chief curator Italian National Contemporary Art Museum (MAXXI), Rome (Italy) What cultural dimensional insights can be drawn from the juxtaposition of our contemporary visions of the future with those of the optimistic and utopian visions of the 1950s? How and why are today?s ...
Architect; editor in chief of the magazine Abitare; Visiting Professor Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Cambridge (USA) Stefano Boeri is a Milan-based architect and founder of the research agency Multiplicity (www.multiplicity.it) participating regular in architecture, ...
Cultural scientist; art historian; coordinator Bauhaus Kolleg at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation; curator, Dessau (Germany) What mechanisms are restructuring cities of Middle and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain? How and why are these cities falling short of the promise of ...
How does a series of anxiety-producing events and incidents play out in urban situations in the course of the perpetration of ?terror? that claims not only bodies but biographies as well? Can it be said that the discourse about ?terrorism? also makes claims on those same bodies and ...
What is the relationship between cartography and art, between science and politics? How does this influence the use and manipulation of maps as a propaganda tool? Philippe Rekacewicz is a geographer, cartographer and journalist. For twenty years he has worked for Le Monde diplomatique, an ...
Lecturer, Researcher in Comparative Literature, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Ahlbäck will examine a small number of spatial examples, urban and others, in the light of the phenomenological thought of the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. She will also make use of the concepts of the ...
Planner; lawyer; Professor Emeritus Urban Planning, Columbia University (NYC) Utopias can be good (humanist) or bad (neo-liberal), achievable (the city of plenty) or unachievable (the dream city), strategic (utopias of process) or illusory (architectural fantasies). Critical approaches to ...
Doderer is an architect and urban researcher, and a Professor of Gender in Media and Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Duesseldorf, Germany. Doderer will discuss the contribution of sociopolitical movements to the imagination of alternative urban communities. Focusing on the ...
Bauer will introduce the lectures series. "This is Tomorrow" was a ground-breaking trans-disciplinary exhibition (London's Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1956) involving key artists, architects, musicians and designers evaluating "habitation" through the human senses. Fifty years later: how do we ...
the MONDAY NIGHTS @ VAP LECTURE SERIES: THIS IS TOMORROW?Urban Utopia - Dystopia - Heterotopia September 29, 2008 "Imagining Communities" Series Introduction by Ute Meta Bauer, Director MIT Visual Arts Program; Yvonne P. Doderer, architect and urban researcher, MIT Visiting Professor in ...
DJ, musician, and editor Ntone Edjabe will speak about his work with Chimurenga, a pan African journal of writing, art and politics in a presention entitled Chimurenga, Felasophy and the Quest for Lightness in the New South Africa.
The contrast between Thierry Nlanduâ's and Marjetica Potrcâ's approaches made this conversation particularly intriguing. Thierry focused on building dialog and critique within the community about the larger democratic system within which the citizens are a part. He ...
Thierry Nlandu joined Marjetica Potrc at the Zones of Emergency event on April 14 in Bartos Theater. Thierry gave an amazing talk about his project Picture Book on Participatory Democracy: An Art's Act of Resistance against Facade Democracy that is intended to incite dialog about ...
Marjetica Potrc joined Thierry Nlandu in conversation at the Zones of Emergency event on April 14. Marjetica spoke about her research in three areas: the Western Balkans (LHE), the Amazonian state of Acre and the city of New Orleans. She argues that "the territory of the body and the ...
Dr. John Tirman joined a conversation with David Small at Zones of Emergency on March 10. Dr. Tirman, the Executive Director of MIT’s Center for International Studies, will speak about the website Iraq: The Human Cost. The conversation brought up issues relating to the aesthetic and ...
Tad Hirsch spoke about Dialup Radio, a tool that delivers human rights and independent media via telephone. Currently Dialup Radio is being developed for the citizens of Zimbabwe, but the system has been designed to meet the needs of human rights activists around the world. This project is ...
