Edwina Portocarrero and David Cranor, a.k.a. Pablo y Maria, and other artists proposed an exhibition based on the play between light and perception to address the phenomenon of transformation undergone by Mexico City, from its origin to the present, without neglecting the visualization of future scenarios.

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Inventing Yourself at MIT

Speaker: David Nino, Ph.D.
Speaker Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Bernard M. Gordon – MIT Engineering Leadership Program
Date: Monday, November 21, 2016
Time: 4pm - 5.15 pm (Refreshments at 3:45)
Venue: E14-633

ABSTRACT

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Speakers from the Media Lab community include:

Matt Carroll, former Civic Media researcher
Charles Fracchia, alum
César Hidalgo, Macro Connections
Viirj Kan, Mediated Matter
Ani Liu, Design Fiction
Guy Satat, Camera Culture
Eric Schilling, Lifelong Kindergarten
Marco Tempest, Director's Fellow alum
Joy Buolamwini, Civic Media
Deblina Sarkar, Synthetic Neurobiology post-doc
Lisa Nip, alum

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Hacking Arts 2016 will mark the fourth annual festival held at the MIT Media Lab, fostering community and celebrating innovation in the creative industries: Design, Fashion, Film/Video, Gaming, Music, Performing Arts, Virtual/Augmented Reality and Visual Arts.

Hacking Arts is organized by the MIT Sloan School of Management Entertainment, Media & Sports Club in partnership with MIT's Center for Art, Science, and Technology and the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship.

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In 1985, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health established the first-ever Center for Health Communication within an academic institution under the leadership of Dr. Jay A. Winsten. In 1988, the Center launched the US Designated Driver Campaign, which demonstrated how a new social concept, the "designated driver," could be rapidly diffused through American society via mass communication, catalyzing a fundamental shift in social norms relating to driving-after-drinking.

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reThink Food, a unique collaboration between The Culinary Institute of America and MIT Media Lab, brings together a diverse group of thought leaders and innovators at the intersection of technology, behavior, design, and food. Our mission: to explore how areas such as big data, social networking, mobile computing, behavioral economics, marketing, neuroscience, agriculture, and culinary insight and strategy are radically changing food markets, systems, and our understanding of consumer choices.

We are designing our future.

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From second skin to haute cuisine, how can we design responsive materials and interfaces, which couple sensing and actuation? How can we explore the reciprocal relationships between engineered material behaviors and final interface behaviors? Research in the context of this thesis contributes to the development of a few responsive material systems, with building blocks from both the world of the grown and the world of the made. Guidelines were generalized to integrate such materials with interaction design.

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In recent years many individuals and organizations have shifted there attention to the notion of "wellbeing" to address the growing rate in mental health issues including depression. A broader framework has included developing programs, tools, and technology to cater to physical, mental, emotional, and at times spiritual wellbeing. Should the conversation on wellbeing move to a broader platform so that it is not limited to its clinical applications? What should be the relationship, if any, between wellbeing and Eudaimonia or human flourishing?

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All talks at the Media Lab, unless otherwise noted, are open to the public.
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Audio Assist Devices are available for those attending in person; please email events [at] media [dot] mit [dot] edu for more information.

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Carefully-designed feedback on automatically-sensed human behavior has been effective in improving important social and cognitive skills. Automated systems have demonstrated the ability to improve people's skills in areas including interviewing for jobs, public speaking, negotiating, producing vowels for music training, helping elderly people and individuals with Asperger’s syndrome overcome social difficulties, and even speed dating. In this talk, M.

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