<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font color="#11053b" size="4" style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro';">Please Join us </font><span style="color: rgb(227, 36, 0); font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; font-size: large;"><b>TODAY</b></span><font color="#11053b" size="4" style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro';"> for a talk in the </font><font color="#e32400" size="4" style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro';">Computation Group Lecture series</font><font color="#11053b" size="4" style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro';">: </font><br><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><i style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><font color="#d83119" size="5">Learning to Make :: Making to Learn</font></b></i><br><span style="color: rgb(17, 5, 59); font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; font-size: large;">@MIT Department of Architecture </span><br><font color="#0f61c8" face="Myriad Pro"><br><br></font><b style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; color: rgb(216, 49, 25);"><font size="5">Making It in New York City</font></b><br><b style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: large;">November 21, 2014</b><br><b style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: large;">5:00 - 6:30 pm</b><br><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; font-size: large;">Room 7-429, Long Lounge</span><br><font color="#0f61c8" face="Myriad Pro"><br></font><font color="#e32400" size="5" style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro';"><b>Glenn Adamson </b></font><font size="4" style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; color: rgb(181, 26, 0);"> </font><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; font-size: large; line-height: 24px;">Director, Museum of Arts and Design, New York City</span><font color="#0f61c8"><br></font><br><img apple-inline="yes" id="952CE754-A7EF-4C13-87CF-3978EFED66A0" height="256" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:777878BE-3EBF-4A63-9BD2-4D86955E84C9@mit.edu"><font color="#232323" face="Myriad Pro" size="4"><b><br></b></font><b style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro';"><font color="#232323" size="4"><br></font></b></div><div><b style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro';"><font color="#232323" size="4">Abstract</font></b><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Univers45, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">Founded in 1956 as the nation's flagship museum for craft, the Museum of Arts and Design remains a central venue for the celebration of skilled making and its role in modern life. In this lecture, Glenn Adamson will share his thoughts about transitioning from the role of a critic and researcher to that of being the director of this important institution. In addition to providing insights into the way that a contemporary museum operates and the strategies that he has undertaken in his first year of leadership, he will also reflect on the ways that writerly skills remain important in his work.</span><br><font color="#0f61c8" face="Myriad Pro"><br><br></font><b style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro';"><font color="#232323" size="4">Bio </font></b><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Univers45, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;">Glenn Adamson is the Nanette L Laitman Director of the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York City. He was, until Autumn 2013, Head of Research at the V&A, where he was active as a curator, historian and theorist. His publications include Thinking Through Craft (2007), The Craft Reader (2010), Invention of the Craft (2013), and Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970 to 1990 (2011). He is also the co-founder and editor of the triannual Journal of Modern Craft.</span><br><font color="#0f61c8" face="Myriad Pro"><br></font><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; font-size: 10pt;">Further information on the Computation Group lectures can be found at:</span><br><a href="http://architecture.mit.edu/disciplines/computation/lectures/computation-lectures" target="_blank" style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; font-size: 10pt; color: purple;">http://architecture.mit.edu/disciplines/computation/lectures/computation-lectures</a><br><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro';">Please contact Dina El-Zanfaly I </span><a href="mailto:dzanfaly@mit.edu" target="_blank" style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 10pt;">dzanfaly@mit.edu</a><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Myriad Pro'; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">for any inquiries.</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="direction: ltr;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>