Begin forwarded message: > From: "Paul Seletsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: February 28, 2007 1:54:38 PM PST > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: AIANY Tech - March 2007 Event > > March 2007 Event > > Date: Monday, March 5th, 2007 > > Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm ET > > Location: Center for Architecture. 536 LaGuardia Place (Between > Bleecker and W.3rd Street), Main Lecture Hall (Lower Level), NYC > Transportation: 6/F Trains to Bleecker St./BWay-Lafayette (Walk 3 > blocks West+1 block North) > N,R Trains to Prince St (Walk 2 blocks West > +2 blocks North) > A/C/E/F Trains to W4th St (Walk 3 blocks > East+1 block South) > > PLEASE NOTE: SEATING FOR THIS EVENT IS LIMITED. YOU MUST RSVP > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IN ORDER TO ATTEND. Admission: FREE > > > > > > Changing Places: Redefining the House as Machine for Living In - > 2.0 CEUs > > > > Speaker: Kent Larson > > > > Changing Places is a joint MIT Department of Architecture and MIT > Media Laboratory consortium that explores how new technologies, > materials, and strategies for design can make possible dynamic, > evolving places that respond to the complexities of everyday life. > The idea of a future home as a center for energy production, > work, and senior living/health care [during the next 30 years our > elderly population will double] now seems feasible given current > technological advances in materials and electronic communications, > but somewhat implausible considering how poorly new home designs > are prepared to assemble and then enable common modes of > interconnectivity and accessibility between standardized plumbing, > electrical, and mechanical systems; integrate these systems through > the use of such new materials; and apply wireless communications in > delivering timely information to inhabitants in ways that could > prove vital to their daily and long-term well-being. Changing > Places seeks to address that disparity. > > > > Please join us as the AIANY Technology Committee and the AIANY > Housing Committee jointly present a very special evening with Kent > Larson, director of Changing Places. In addition to his > directorship, Kent also runs MITs associated House_n consortium > and the MIT Open Source Building Alliance (both within the > Department of Architecture). His current research focuses on > strategies for creating responsive places of living using new > design/fabrication strategies, defining a system-level set of > standards via an open-source approach to building design and > construction, and developing ubiquitous sensing/computational > technologies that enable activities for people related to proactive > health monitoring, energy conservation, wireless communication, and > interactive learning. Significantly, this vision does not entail a > Big Brother approach in the implementation of technology but > rather one where individuals are empowered to create and customize > environments suitable to their own specific physical needs and > values. Larson's group, in conjunction with the TIAX Group, has > developed a unique research facility called the PlaceLab, which > systematically prototypes and tests such new technologies and > design concepts within this context. > > > > > > Speakers > > Kent Larson, in addition to his academic and research roles at MIT, > practiced architecture for 15 years in New York City in partnership > with Peter L. Gluck, and more recently as Kent Larson, Architects > P.C., with work published in Architectural Record, Progressive > Architecture, Global Architecture, the New York Times, A+U, and > Architectural Digest. His book, Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks, > was selected as one of the Ten Best Books in Architecture, 2000, > by the New York Times Review of Books. Related work was selected by > Time magazine as a "Best Design of the Year" project. > > > > > > For more information on the work of Kent Larson and MITs Changing > Places consortium, the Open Source Building Alliance, and the > PlaceLab, you may visit: > > > > http://architecture.mit.edu/~kll/ > > http://architecture.mit.edu/~kll/AA_Metropolismag_House_n.pdf > > http://architecture.mit.edu/~kll/A_PlaceLab_Sept1-2004.pdf > > > > > > > > Please note: This event will begin promptly at 6:00pm and end at > 8:00pm. > > This AIANY event has been made possible - and kept free - by the > generous support of ABC-Imaging. > > > > > > > > PAUL SELETSKY, ASSOCIATE AIA > > CHAIR, AIANY TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE > > > > DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL DESIGN - NEW YORK > > SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL LLP > > 14 WALL STREET > > NEW YORK, NY 10005 > > T: 212.298.9361 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TELECOM-CITIES Current searchable archives (Feb. 1, 2006 to present) at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Old searchble archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
