Networks Understanding Networks, Pt. 12
Networks Understanding Networks, Pt. 12: Neri Oxman
Fabricating Networks: Notes on Biologically Inspired Design — Neri Oxman
Anchises
Anchises
Excerpts from a video of a collaborative performance piece by Jonah Bokaer and Harrison Atelier. Ariane Lourie Harrison is a visiting lecturer in SA+P's Department of Architecture.
AIDA - The Affective Intelligent Driving Agent
AIDA - The Affective Intelligent Driving Agent
The Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project is a collaboration between the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, MIT's SENSEable City Lab and the Volkswagen Group ...
Liquid Archive
Liquid Archive
New video of Nader Tehrani's and Gediminas Urbonas' "Liquid Archive", part of MIT's FAST Festival. The video was created by the Urbonas Studio and Gerda Serbentaite.
Unflat Pavilion
Unflat Pavilion
Part of the MIT FAST Festival, Unflat Pavilion is a freestanding pavilion illuminated with LEDS that flexes two dimensions into three. Flat sheets are bent and unfurl into skylights, columns and windows.
Suzanne Seitinger: LightBridge at FAST Light 2011
Suzanne Seitinger: LightBridge at FAST Light 2011
In 1916, MIT crossed the river from its original location in Boston's Back Bay to Cambridge, taking up residence on the banks of the Charles. Since then, generations of students have trekked across the bridge, including Oliver Smoot and his fraternity brothers, who ...
Nick Gelpi: Unflat Pavilion/Feather-Weight House at FAST ...
Nick Gelpi: Unflat Pavilion/Feather-Weight House at FAST Light 2011
A freestanding pavilion, created by flexing two dimensions into three, this house deploys a fabrication system used to create a membrane, which is simultaneously structural, functional and representational in a single act. Entirely constructed of laminated plywood, an ...
Maxwell's Dream: Paint with Light
Maxwell's Dream: Paint with Light
An art installation that allows observers to play with a magnetic field to create patterns in light.
Nader Tehrani and Gediminas Urbonas: Liquid Archive at FAST ...
Nader Tehrani and Gediminas Urbonas: Liquid Archive at FAST Light 2011
Liquid Archive, a floating, interactive artwork, imaginatively extends MIT's Killian Court beyond Memorial Drive into the Charles River, to celebrate the Institute's 150th anniversary. Consisting of an inflatable screen anchored to a floating platform, it provides a ...
Otto Piene: SKY Event at FAST Light 2011
Otto Piene: SKY Event at FAST Light 2011
Rising above the Great Dome of MIT, immense inflatable stars soared over Killian Court on the evening of May 7 during FAST Light, the culminating event of the MIT150 Festival of Art, Science and Technology. The sculptures celebrated - and incorporated - the ...
Inverted Platform Lobby 7 competition entry
Inverted Platform Lobby 7 competition entry
Inverted Platform offers new perspectives of MIT's Lobby 7 to visitors and members of the Institute community by redefining the plinth as a new type of platform for viewing and storytelling. Large red horn-like objects are placed on each existing plinth, but rather ...
An Interview with Amanda Levesque
An Interview with Amanda Levesque
An interview with student Amanda Levesque about the value of international travel as part of an architectural education.
TrashTrack
TrashTrack
Winner of the NSF International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, the video shows how TrashTrack uses technology to expose the challenges of waste management and sustainability. For more information go to: http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/index.php
IceWall
IceWall - a Festival of Arts, Science and Technology Installation
MIT 150 celebrated past innovation and achievement, while acting as a catalyst for the next generation. In this spirit, IceWall, part of the Festival of Art, Science and Technology, plants a new future, even as its own seemingly fades away.
Technology Day 1994 - "For the Wonder of it All: The Arts ...
Technology Day 1994 - "For the Wonder of it All: The Arts at MIT"
MIT's Technology Day 1994 titled "For the the Wonder of it All: the Arts at MIT" takes place on June 3, 1994, and features the following presentations: Philip Morrison on "Art and Science;" I. M. Pei '40 and William Mitchell on "I. M. Pei Recent Work;" Richard Polich ...
Maseeh Hall (W1) Under Construction
Maseeh Hall (W1) Under Construction
W1 is a historic residence at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and the Charles river that re-opened on 8/15/2011 as Maseeh Hall, a new home for 462 MIT undergraduates, named in recognition of a generous gift from Fariborz Maseeh (ScD '90). For more information on the project, please visit ...
Excellence is a Shared Path: Working Together for Justice ...
Excellence is a Shared Path: Working Together for Justice and the Quality ...
02/09/2011 7:30 AM Walker Morss HallKhalea Robinson, '11; Pierre Fuller, 'GDescription: In their brief remarks honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two students strike the theme of collaboration. They touch on the importance of humility and listening to ...