The Phoenix Burns Out: Remembering a Boston Institution

MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA

When the Phoenix announced its closing, the city lost a powerful cultural force and a vibrant source of information. We'll discuss the Phoenix's legacy.

Eric Gordon, “Towards a Meaningfully Inefficient Smart City”

Visiting Professor Eric Gordon will discuss a recent project in Boston, MA in collaboration with the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, called Beta Blocks, that uses meaningful inefficiency as a structuring logic for sourcing, questioning and making decisions about public realm technologies.