Design Workshop: Designing the Connected Sustainable Home

bmcmurray — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:58:05 -0500

4.556 J / MAS.551 J Design Workshop: Design without Boundaries
Designing the Connected Sustainable Home

Instructors: William J. Mitchell, Federico Casalegno (MEL, Design Lab), Pattie Maes (Media Lab)
Course Collaborators: Orkan Telhan, Juhong Park

Prereq: Permission of instructors required
Classes: Thursdays 10am - 1pm
G (Spring)

First Class meeting:
Thursday, Feb 5th, 10:00am, MIT Design Lab Conference Room, NE18, 4th floor

Class description:
Among architects and designers, the notion of critical radical sustainability is an emerging notion. Most efforts in this area focus on the use of sustainable building materials and green energy. We are taking a broader approach; we call it the "Connected Sustainable Home."

Our vision is of a home that is not only built with sustainable materials and that uses green energy, but also takes full advantage of all the digital world has to offer to create a building that can respond to its environment and to the needs of its inhabitants more intelligently. It employs the latest in what we know about artificial intelligence, as well as advanced robotics, to improve the quality of life for those who live in the home. And, going even further, it is a home that by its very existence and the way it "works" optimizes human behavior and thus promotes social sustainability.

This class will provide opportunities to pursue real-world design projects that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, apply advanced technologies and address significant social issues concerning the design of the "Connected Sustainable Home."

Rethinking TV Final Review

rebickel — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:31:22 -0500

FINAL REVIEW - December 15th, 3- 5:30pm
MIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor
Room 368

Reviewers: Bill Mitchell (MIT), Federico Casalegno (MIT), Francesco Casetti (University of Milano)

Each of the groups will have 20 minutes to present their projects (La Conversazione, Enjoy RAI and Relive) and 20 additional minutes for questions and critiques.

Invited guests will be present.

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Rethinking the TV Experience Workshop - Fall 2008

rebickel — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:51:33 -0400

Design without Boundaries workshops, Fall 2008

dboardman — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:16:36 -0400

Instructors: William J. Mitchell, Federico Casalegno [Prerequisite: Permission of the instructors - Fall 2008, 12 units]

This class will provide opportunities to pursue real-world design projects that cross-traditional disciplinary boundaries, apply advanced technologies and address significant social issues. During the first meeting we will describe two design workshops that we will give within the Design without boundaries seminar: Smart Urban Mobility System in Paris and Rethinking the TV experience, and we will select students.

Final presentations for the Design Without Boundaries workshop (May 13, 2008)

achang — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

You are invited to the final presentation for the Design Without Boundaries workshop, held on May 13 from 2:30-5 pm in the House_n space on the 4th floor of building NE18 (1 Cambridge Center).

The agenda will be as follows:

2:30 - 2:45 - Set up PTA presentation. General remarks and introduction to PTA class.
2:45 - 3:45 - PTA presentation and feedback session
3:45 - 4:00 - Set up Zambana presentation. General remarks and introduction to Zambana class.
4:00 - 5:00 - Zambana presentation and feedback

We would love to see you there!

Guest lecture - Margherita Pagani on Mobile TV (May 12, 2008)

achang — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Margherita Pagani is an assistant professor at the University of Bocconi in Milan. She is currently Visiting Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management within the Communications Future Program.

Her talk will be about her most current research examining the factors that affect people's decision to adopt new technologies, specifically mobile TV.

For more information on the speaker, please click here:
http://didattica.unibocconi.eu/docenti/cv.php?rif=49401&cognome=PAGANI&n...

Time: 12-2pm
Location: House_n
Lunch will be provided.