We would like to announce This is Tomorrow: Utopia - Dystopia - Heterotopia, the Fall 2008 Monday Nights@VAP Lecture Series, which brings together a cross-disciplinary set of speakers from art, architecture, urbanism, science and technology from MIT and around the world. The complexity of our “everyday life” calls for an exchange beyond disciplines. Each evening will highlight a specific aspect of habitation from different perspectives.
The MIT Visual Arts Program hosts a
cross-disciplinary lecture series that includes speakers from art, architecture,
urbanism and technology from around the world. These speakers will start a discourse to imagine tomorrow's urban living conditions.
9/29 Imagining Communities
10/6 Urban Utopia?
10/20 The Right to the City
10/27 What City? Whose City?
11/3 Mobile Life, Ghost Towns
11/17 Remote Habitats
12/1 Urban Culture. Urban Agriculture.
12/8 X-topia and Y-topia
10/6 Urban Utopia?
10/20 The Right to the City
10/27 What City? Whose City?
11/3 Mobile Life, Ghost Towns
11/17 Remote Habitats
12/1 Urban Culture. Urban Agriculture.
12/8 X-topia and Y-topia
The kick off of the “this s tomorrow? …” lecture series was impressive.
we did not expect so many guests not only from different MIT departments and schools, but also from harvard, tufts and even from as far down - the university of connecticut. “imagining communities” – with stimulating presentations by MIT visiting professor Yvonne p. doderer and german architect and co-editor of the magazine “AnArchitektur” jesko fezer – was a great departure for what we hope to achieve: to build a diverse community of shared interests and concerns.
Thank you, amber and doug to create this blog allowing us to share contributions and “food for thought” and to reach out to those interested elsewhere.
meet you either “here” at the MIT visual arts program or “there” on the “urbanutopias” blog.
ute meta bauer and the team of the MIT visual arts program
i forward this message from Nitin Sahney, who received his PHD fromt he media lab and who is currently a fellow for the JUST JERUSALEM initiative at MIT. best umb
Subject: Invitation to Boston Palestine Film Festival - Opening Reception Friday, Oct 3rd 7:30 PM
Dear friends,
Most of you know about the Palestine film festival we’ve been planning all year (its only our 2nd year) - well its finally here now!
The opening reception starts tomorrow night (Friday, Oct 3rd at 7:30PM onwards) with the Expressions of Nakba art exhibit (an international design competition we worked on since last year), as well as great food and music at Harvard. You’ll meet artists, filmmakers and many organizers there. This is followed by 9 days of exciting films and events at the Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard film Archive, Coolidge and many university venues all over town.
Particularly, don’t miss the opening night film “Slingshot Hip Hop” on Saturday (Oct 4th) and the closing film “Salt of this Sea” next Sunday (Oct 12th). Also hope you can come see some of the youth video shorts produced by our kids in the workshops we conducted in refugee camps this summer. I’m presenting those with my team on Wednesday, Oct 8th 6pm at the Harvard Law School. There are many filmmakers who’ll be speaking at the screenings, and many free events too.
Finally, there’s a little 90 sec trailer that my friend Therese and I edited last weekend - its on the festival homepage:
http://bostonpalestinefilmfest.org
Hope to see some of you over the next 10 days and then I’ll finally recover some sleep
cheers
Nitin
more utopia and dystopia
more on utopias and dystopias
talk at MIT
*October 8, 2008, 5-7 (Barker 133)*
The Humanities Center Seminar on Gender and Sexuality presents:*
*Jayna Brown (University of California, Riverside)*
*The Human Project: Bodily Dystopias and Utopics of Race*
*with comment by Wendy Chun (Brown University)*