[Sci-tech-public] ZONES OF EMERGENCY - Tad Hirsch & Moises Gonzales; Monday Night @ VAP - 3/17/08 (7-9pm) -

[Debbie Meinbresse]

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>
>Monday, March 17, 2008
>7:00p–9:00p
>Location: 
><http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=N51-337&mapsearch=go>N51-337, 
>(Joan Jonas Performance Hall)
>
>ZONES OF EMERGENCY - Border Matters & Critical Design
>Tad Hirsch & Moises Gonzales
>
>ZOE 
>Blog: 
><http://www.zonesofemergency.net/event-calendar/>http://www.zonesofemergency.net/event-calendar/
>Lecture Poster 
>Link: 
><http://web.mit.edu/vap/about/lecture.html>http://web.mit.edu/vap/about/lecture.html
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>Border Matters and Critical Design will explore 
>infrastructure in border areas and design 
>applications for underserved communities.How can 
>critical design practice and technology generate 
>new paradigms and alternative approaches to policy and planning?
>
>Tad Hirsch is a researcher and PhD canddate in 
>the Smart Cities Group at MIT’s Media Lab, where 
>his work focuses on the intersections between 
>art, activism, and technology. He has worked 
>with Intel’s People and Practices Research 
>Group, Motorola’s Advanced Concepts Group and 
>the Interaction Design Studio at Carnegie Mellon 
>University, and has several years experience in 
>the nonprofit sector. Tad is also a frequent 
>collaborator with the Institute for Applied 
>Autonomy, an award-winning arts collective that 
>exhibits throughout the United States and 
>Europe. He publishes and lectures widely on a 
>variety of topics concerning social aspects of 
>technology, and has received several prestigious 
>commissions and awards. Tad holds degrees from 
>Vassar College, Carnegie Mellon University and 
>the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
>
>Moises Gonzales is currently a Loeb Fellow at 
>the Graduate School of Design at Harvard 
>University and an urban planner who works in 
>Sandoval County just to the north of 
>Albuquerque, New Mexico. He grew up in La Merced 
>to Canon De Carnue, one of the many land grant 
>communities (ejidos) of New Mexico. Moises spent 
>the early part of his career dealing with rural 
>issues and the preservation of cultural 
>amenities and traditions in his and similar 
>small settlements with strong ethnic connections 
>to the earliest history of the state. More 
>recently, he has been focusing on urban planning 
>issues, out of the conviction that if the city 
>of Albuquerque becomes a more vibrant and 
>exciting place, fewer people will want to flee 
>to the sprawling suburbs. Governor Bill 
>Richardson has appointed him to the “Our 
>Futures, Our Communities” Task Force on Smart 
>Growth. His work at the county has focused on 
>new zoning and planning regimens that will 
>encourage increased density within the city of 
>Albuquerque and more concentration of 
>development around transit nodes. As a Loeb 
>Fellow, Moises will study patterns of urban 
>development around the world, with a 
>concentration on methods others have used to 
>protect fragile natural landscapes and limit sprawl.
>
>Directions
>The Visual Arts Program at MIT is located at 265 
>Massachusetts Avenue (building N51) adjacent to 
>the MIT Museum. Enter through the grey door on 
>Front Street and take the elevator to the third 
>floor. Exit the elevator to your left and go 
>down the ramp. The Joan Jonas Performance Hall, 
>room N51-337, is located through the glass doors on the right.
>
>By Public Transportation
>Take the Red Line to Central Square. Walk four 
>blocks along Massachusetts Avenue towards Boston 
>and the Charles River. The Visual Arts Program 
>at MIT is located at 265 Massachusetts Avenue 
>(Building N51), adjacent to the MIT Museum. Or 
>take the #1 bus to the stop on Massachusetts 
>Avenue at Pacific Street, across from the MIT Museum.
>
>
>This event is presented in conjunction with 
>courses 4.381/4.366 : Intro to Online 
>Participatory Media: Zones of Emergency - 
>Networks, Tactics, Breakdown taught by Professor 
>Amber Frid-Jimenez and 4.370/4.371 : Research as 
>Artistic Practice: Module 1: Zones of Emergency: 
>The FEMA Trailer Project taught by professors Ute Meta Bauer & Jae Rhim Lee.
>
>Special thanks to
>This lecture series has been made possible with 
>a special grant by the Office of the Dean, School of Architecture and Planning
>
>MIT Visual Arts Program
>James Pollack
>Assistant to the Director
>
><mailto:vap at mit.edu>vap at mit.edu
>Direct line: (617) 253-5229
>Fax: (617) 253-3977
>265 Mass. Ave., Bldg. N51-328
>Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA
>
>further information and news
><http://web.mit.edu/vap/flash.html>http://web.mit.edu/vap/
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>

Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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