MIT
Leonardo Bonanni Thesis Defense—A Collective Framework for Sustainable Design
Monday, March 22, 2010 | 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Speaker:
Leonardo Bonanni
Participant(s)/Committee: Hiroshi Ishii, Chris Csikszentmihályi, William J. Mitchell, Gregory Norris
E14-633
For a timely answer to the problem of sustainability, or how to provide for future generations, there needs to be shared accounting of our social and physical resources. Global supply chains touch countless people, each a potential contributor to our collective understanding. Unleashing this information could engage many more people in the invention of long-term solutions, or sustainable design.
This thesis proposes a framework for shared resource accounting through the democratization of sustainable design. Open communication channels make it possible to extend teaching, tools and information to a vast number of potential decision-makers. Contributing design solutions to a shared medium can build a collective assessment of resource flows and help to spread successful strategies.
As part of this research, a collective platform was built to support sustainable design. The web tool, Sourcemap.org, was evaluated in partnership with students, designers, businesses and governmental organizations. Pilot studies revealed the potential of this platform to help visualize social and environmental sustainability, to support discussion and diagnostics, and to provide valuable communications functionality.
The field studies informed a framework rooted in transparency and extensibility to foster trust in a collective pursuit. A symmetric interface offers multiple points of entry while providing consumers with the same capacities as content producers. A flexible architecture motivates a crowd-sourced approach to auditing. The framework informs and is informed by a partnership approach, where collaborative development extends useful features and information to novices and experts alike.
Harvard
Islamic Finance: A Comparative Study of Regulation
WHEN
Mon., Mar. 22, 2010, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE
Pound 335, Harvard Law School
TYPE OF EVENT
Business, Law, Presentation/Lecture
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Islamic Legal Studies Program
SPEAKER(S)
Jiyoung Yang, 2009-10 ILSP Visiting Fellow, associate deputy director, Financial Supervisory Service, South Korea
COST
Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO
ilsp@law.harvard.edu
NOTE
Followed by a reception
LINK
http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/ilsp/events/
Radcliffe Institute Dean’s Lecture Series: "Freakonomics and Beyond"
WHEN
Mon., Mar. 22, 2010, 4 – 6 p.m.
WHERE
Radcliffe Gymnasium, 10 Garden Street, Radcliffe Yard
TYPE OF EVENT
Presentation/Lecture, Social Sciences
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
SPEAKER(S)
Steven D. Levitt, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
COST
Free
CONTACT INFO
617.495.8600
NOTE
Hear the latest research and musings from the economist who brought us the best-selling "Freakonomics" and "SuperFreakonomics."
LINK
www.radcliffe.edu
Tuesday, March 23
2:30pm - 4pm
Bell Hall -Belfer Building Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St. Cambridge, MA
"Prices vs. Quantities, Yet Again: Allowance Reserves and Banking." William A. (Billy) Pizer, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Energy, U.S. Treasury.
Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund@hks.harvard.edu
Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism
WHEN
Tue., Mar. 23, 2010, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
WHERE
JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge MA
TYPE OF EVENT
Award Ceremonies, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Shorenstein Center
SPEAKER(S)
David Fanning, executive producer of FRONTLINE
COST
Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO
617.495.1329
NOTE
There will be a related panel discussion on Wed., March 24.
Goldsmith Seminar, "The Present and Future of Investigative Reporting"
WHEN
Wed., Mar. 24, 2010, 9 – 11 a.m.
WHERE
Fifth floor, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge MA
TYPE OF EVENT
Award Ceremonies, Social Sciences, Special Events
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
Shorenstein Center
SPEAKER(S)
Panel discussion with the Goldsmith Award Finalists for Investigative Reporting: Sean P. Murphy, The Boston Globe; Mark Greenblatt, David Raziq, Keith Tomshe, KHOU-TV (Houston); Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; J. Andrew Curliss and Steve Riley, The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC); A.C. Thompson, ProPublica in collaboration with Gordon Russell, New Orleans Times-Picayune; and Joe Stephens and Lena H. Sun, The Washington Post
COST
Free and open to the public
CONTACT INFO
617.495.1329
Does Thoreau Have a Future? Reimagining Voluntary Simplicity for the 21st Century
WHEN
Thu., Mar. 25, 2010, 5:15 – 7 p.m.
WHERE
Sperry Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Ave.
TYPE OF EVENT
Environmental Sciences, Ethics, Humanities, Presentation/Lecture, Religion
ORGANIZATION/SPONSOR
The Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School
SPEAKER(S)
Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature in Harvard’s Department of English and American Literature and Language. A response will be given by Diana Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and member of the Faculty of Divinity.
COST
Free; registration required
CONTACT INFO
617.495.4476, resterson@hds.harvard.edu
NOTE
Part of the "Ecologies of Human Flourishing" lecture series. Reservations are required for this event. Register online athttps://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/events/registration.cfm
LINK
https://www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr/events/theme.html
Saturday, March 27, 2010 & Sunday, March 28, 2010:
9th Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance on "Building Bridges across Financial Communities," presented by the Islamic Finance Project. For more information on this event, please visit the IFP website at http://www.ifp.harvard.edu/ or contact IFP director Nazim Ali at ifp@law.harvard.edu.
Brandeis
Changing people in a changing climate?
Tuesday, March 23
2- 5pm
Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library Brandeis University Waltham, MA
"The Ethical Implications of Climate Disruption." A conversation with Michael Appell (International Business School), Bernadette Brooten (Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Classics), Cristina Espinosa (Sustainable International Development, Heller School), and Tory Fair (Fine Arts.
http://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/events
Contact Name: Charles C. Chester charles.chester@gmail.com 617.304.9373
Other
Monday, March 22, 2010 at 7:00 PM (ET)
Where
Microsoft NERD Center
1 Memorial Dr
Cambridge MA, 02142
The Afterlives of Artificial Life
How should one tell the biography of the field of Artificial Life, first framed
by that name in 1987 by Chris Langton? Anthropologist Stefan Helmreich, whose
1998 book, Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World,
examined the cultural meaning of research done in first decade of ALife, will
turn his analytic attention to the social meaning of ALife since 2000,
examining the simultaneous vanishing and proliferation of ALife ways of
thinking and doing.
Bio
Stefan Helmreich is an associate professor of anthropology at MIT.
Helmreich's research examines the works and lives of contemporary biologists puzzling through the conceptual boundaries of “life” as a category of analysis. He has written extensively on Artificial Life, most notably in Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World.
Hosted By
Grey Thumb
About Grey Thumb:
Grey Thumb is a group of scientists, engineers, hackers, artists, and hobbyists in the Boston metro area with a strong interest in artificial life, artificial intelligence, biology, complex systems and other related topics.http://www.greythumb.org
RSVP: http://greythumb220310.eventbrite.com/
March 26th - 27th, 2010
Friday and Saturday - 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
The largest robotics competition in Boston and the largest regional competition in FIRST history -- In 2009, over 6000 attendees watched more than 1000 high school students competing. Free and Open to the Public!
The amazing Agganis Arena at Boston University
925 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA
Watch The Live Webcast at http://www.thebluealliance.net/boston09/
Thanks to Fred Hapgood's Boston Lectures on Science and Engineering list and best wishes for a quick, complete recovery with as little pain as possible
http://fhapgood.fastmail.fm/site02.html
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