[Mitworld] New: Hockenberry and Herr on Human Augmentation, DUSP Panel of Responsive Cities

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[HUMAN AUGMENTATION]

Just in time for the Olympics....

These two MIT Museum speakers hope you'll walk away from their talk with
a good case of augmentation envy -- or at least a healthy respect for
what technology can do for the human body and soul.

SPEAKERS:
John Hockenberry
Distinguished Fellow, MIT Media Lab
Host, The Takeaway, WNYC Radio, PRI

Hugh Herr
Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/579/>

[QUOTE]
"The dream here is that one day I and other people with limb amputations
will not only be able to walk across a sandy beach but feel the sand
against their prosthesis."
-- Hugh Herr


EVENT HOST: MIT Museum <http://web.mit.edu/museum/>

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[BUILDING RESPONSIVE CITIES: TECHNOLOGY, DESIGN, AND DEVELOPMENT]

This panel of experts tries to create a vision for a responsive city,
claiming that we need to confront the immense challenges of rapid
urbanization, universal mobility sustainability and basic livability.

MODERATOR:
Lawrence J. Vale SM '88
Professor and Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
School of Architecture and Planning
Margaret MacVicar Fellow

PANELISTS:
Dennis Frenchman, MCP '76, MAA '76
Leventhal Professor of Urban Design and Planning, and Director, City
Design and Development, MIT

Antonio Di Mambro '71, MAA '77, MCP '77
Principal, Antonio di Mambro+ Associates

Martha Lampkin Welborne, MCP '81, MAA '81

Thomas J. Campanella, PhD '99
Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/580/>

[QUOTE]
"Even a Robert Moses would hardly budge the needle on a Chinese urban
Richter scale. In his whole master builder career, Moses constructed
420 miles of urban expressway in the New York metro region. Shanghai
officials in the '90s built 4 times that amount."
-- Tom Campanella


EVENT HOST: Department of Urban Studies and Planning
<http://dusp.mit.edu/>

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Center for International Studies
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Greg Mitchell
Editor, Editor and Publisher Magazine

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