[Sci-tech-public] "Edgy Products" Talk by Chris Csikszentmihalyi @ Harvard KSG Today

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>                    Science and Society Colloquium Series
>                                     on
>              Science, Policy and the Democratic Imagination
>
>
>     Edgy Products: Designing Change in Contemporary Technoculture
>
>                       Speaker: Chris Csikszentmihalyi
>
>               Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
>                                MIT Media Lab
>
>                           Monday December 6, 2004
>                             4:00 pm -- 6:00 pm
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>
>                PERKINS ROOM, Rubenstein Building, 4th Floor
>              Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
>
>About the Speaker:  Chris Csikzentmihalyi directs the Media Lab's Computing
>Culture Group, which works to create unique media technologies for cultural
>applications. Before coming to MIT, he was at RPI, where he worked at the
>intersection of new technologies, media, and the arts. He is one of the
>initiators of the Government Information Awareness program, a research
>effort aimed at providing software and data to help citizens understand the
>complexities of an increasingly opaque government and track its activities.
>In his talk he will introduce some of his recent innovations in technical
>and media interventions, and explore links to democratization and
>governance.
>
>Sponsored by the Kennedy School's Program on Science, Technology, and
>Society, in collaboration with: The Weatherhead Center for International
>Affairs and The Center for Population and Development Studies. For more
>information, contact: Marybeth Long Martello, Program on Science,
>Technology, and Society, Kennedy School of Government; email:
>Stefan_sperling at ksg.harvard.e
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