Experience Design Workshop: Taught by Razorfish
MIT Building 1, Room 134 33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAWhether you are an engineer or designer, this course will challenge you to start work by studying users – not technology – first.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Federico Casalegno: “Designing Connections”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAMIT Mobile Experience Lab's Federico Casalegno on innovative ways to design creative new media and digital interactions to foster connections between people, information, and places.
Sandra Braman: “Frames, Fractures, and Skins: Internet Design as Social Policy”
MIT Building E51, Room 275 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MASandra Braman on how "those responsible for technical design of the Internet have found they must think through a number of social policy issues along the way."
Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MADrawing on her experiences working as part of collaborative research-design teams that combine art/science/design/engineering, Anne Balsamo will describe her new research on public interactives and the infrastructures of public intimacy.
Konstantin Mitgutsch: “Purposeful Games: Research & Design”
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MAA new trend of designing video games intended to fulfill a serious purpose through impacting the players in real life contexts has emerged.
Building Story Worlds: Space, Time, Rules, and Narrative in Game Design
MIT Building 56, Room 180 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAA workshop exploring the role of space in storytelling and how artists can use the tools of game design to construct complex narratives.
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MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MACo-authors will discuss the nature of their collaboration facilitated by structured conversations and writing done online and in person.
Susan Murray, “‘Natural Vision vs. Tele-Vision’: Defining and Managing Electronic Color in the Post-War Era”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MASusan Murray on the discourses that framed and managed color use and reception not only in the standardization period, but also during RCA and NBC's early attempts to sell color to consumers, sponsors, and critics.
Designing for a Neurodiverse World
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MASometimes simple changes can significantly expand accessibility to people who have neurological differences like autism, dyslexia, ADHD, or epilepsy, but designers and policymakers frequently aren’t aware of issues affecting this neurodiverse community.
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.
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