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THROUGH OCTOBER 24My New Theater: Reading Dante III. An exhibition of four videos created by Professor Joan Jonas with music by Jason Moran and David Lang. Media Lab Complex Lobby, E14, 75 Amherst Street.

OCTOBER 21–DECEMBER 31Otto Piene: Lichtballett. An exhibit of light-based sculptural work by the director of SA+P’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies from 1974-94. List Visual Arts Center, E15, 20 Ames Street.

THROUGH DECEMBER 30Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan. An exhibit of photos by Margaret Morton with introductory text by SA+P Professor Nasser Rabbat. M-F 9AM – 5PM, Wolk Gallery 7-338.

THROUGH DECEMBER 31The MIT 150 Exhibition. A year-long exhibit highlighting 150 years of MIT history and featuring an impressive array of important milestones from SA+P. 10AM–5PM. MIT Museum, N51.

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(Cover)Maxwell’s Dream: Painting with Light, an installation from the Festival of Art, Science + Technology that allowed visitors to play with a magnetic field to create patterns in light. (By Kaustuv De Biswas and Daniel Rosenberg, graduate students in architecture)(Photo: © Andy Ryan)

N E W S D I G E S T O F T H E M I T S C H O O L O F A R C H I T E C T U R E + P L A N N I N G

When we opened our new Media Lab complex in March of 2010,

we deliberately placed a range of related programs side by side

to encourage interdisciplinary invention and creativity. The plan

is working out just as intended, and this year the appointment of

several new leaders in those neighboring programs promises to

enhance the synergies that have already begun.

Most prominently, we have hired Joichi Ito as the new

director of the Media Lab. A dynamic leader brimming with

ideas and energy, Ito is a very unusual hire whose appointment

has created a lot of international buzz, along with eager antici-

pation for what he will bring to the Lab.

Another important new hire is Ethan Zuckerman as direc-

tor of the Center for Civic Media, a joint program of the Media

Lab and the Comparative Media Studies Program in the School

of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Zuckerman and Ito

have often collaborated in the past and their new proximity

opens up even more opportunity for productive partnership.

Meanwhile, our Program in Art, Culture and Technology—

newly located in the complex after years of relative exile on

north campus—has just recruited two extremely strong and

interesting new artists for their faculty, and new leadership is

also being sought at the nearby List Visual Arts Center.

All of these new faculty are profiled in this issue (and at

greater length online) and I encourage you to acquaint yourself

with them. Their presence in the Media Lab Complex will infuse

its famously fertile culture with new ideas, new energy and new

ways of looking at old problems that should produce some excit-

ing results. Watch this space for developments.

AN EXHIBIT OF WORLD’S 300 BEST DESIGN THESESALONG WITH TEN INTER NATIONAL WORKSHOPS ON THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE

A major exhibit on view at MIT throughout the summer presented 300 of the world’s best the-sis projects in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture, featuring entries from 72 countries and 29 American cities. Sponsored by Archiprix International, the biennial exhibit is the largest such presenta-tion in the world—more than 1400 universi-ties were invited to participate this year—and offers a rare opportunity for assessing current trends in design education around the world and architecture in general. This year marks the first time the exhibit has been held in the United States. Hosted by SA+P’s Platform for Permanent Modernity, a research program headed by architecture professor Alexander D’Hooghe, the exhibit was part of a two-week inter-national event that also featured intensive five-day workshops for 100 of the students rep-resented in the show, led by prominent design-ers from leading architecture schools in the United States. The workshops focused on the future of architecture through a radical speculation about the future of New York City in 21st-century terms—with no more skyscrapers, no more highways and a reconfiguration of the waterfront edge. While the details of the workshop proposals were less important than the conversations the project engendered and the relationships that were begun, the propos-als themselves were often fascinating.

One group, for instance, proposed a canal that would run up the center of the island, roughly parallel to Broadway: freight would be moved from container ships in the port by smaller boats that would cross the harbor and travel up the canal to deliver goods directly to the city’s neighborhoods; the goods would then be taken to their final destination by elec-tric carriages. Another group presented ideas for new, temporary urban infrastructures that could respond to the fast-changing needs of a city, including balloons that could float new rental space in the airspace over the city when a boom economy demands; the balloons could deflate to provide homeless shelter on the streets during slower times. The catalogue of the thesis competition, published in collaboration with 010 Publish-ers and edited by Archiprix International Rot-terdam, features a representative selection of the projects submitted, including the nominees and prize winners, as well as favorites chosen by the participants themselves, along with per-sonal data on the projects’ designers. The com-plete collection of submissions can be viewed on the accompanying DVD. For a copy of the book, contact 010 Publishers at www.010.nl.MORE: SAP.MIT.EDU/PLAN

(A)Amsterdam Alphabet. Gijs Adriaansens, Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands).

(B)The New ‘Non-Standard’, Jonathan Enns, Princeton University (US).

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In the years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, SA+P’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning has been and continues to be one of the nation’s most active urban planning departments on the scene, and one of the most effective. Through involvement with studios, theses, practica, projects, research and advocacy, our students, faculty and alumni have provided assistance to community organizations, city departments and neighborhoods with chal-lenges ranging from economic development to housing to environmental justice and have won development grants for community organiza-tions that range from $15K to $1.2M. To extend that commitment still further, a movement is now afoot to develop a Living Laboratory here designed for undergradu-ates from all five schools in the Institute. The class responds to work requests by neighbor-hood groups and city officials looking to move redevelopment projects forward; in the pro-cess, students learn about planning processes, politics and policy and how a disaster forces change, rethinking and reprioritizing. By targeting undergraduates, the program aims in part to encourage more undergradu-ate majors in urban planning and/or double majors with other disciplines. Undergraduates will also have the chance to move from the Liv-ing Laboratory to ongoing graduate courses in Economic Development Finance and Revitaliz-ing Urban Main Streets. MORE: SAP.MIT.EDU/PLAN

Thousands of visitors crowded onto the MIT campus and riverfront on two consecutive nights in May for the spectacular culmination of MIT’s semester-long Festival of Art, Science + Technology, a part of the Institute’s 150th anniversary celebration. In the evenings from 7-10PM, the campus came alive with more than twenty illuminated architectural installations and multi-media public artworks, all of them conceived, curated, created and produced by students and faculty from the School of Architecture + Planning—a unique public showcase for the abundance of talent among our ranks. The extravaganza kicked off on Saturday night with the inflation of Otto Piene’s dramat-ic SKY Event, two massive, brightly lit stars that rose into the night sky over Killian Court, and continued with such spectacles as a 3D video projection screen floating in the river; a dynamic lighting installation that told the story of MIT’s past by projecting numbers and phras-es on buildings; and a 10,000-pixel display of LED lights on the Mass Ave Bridge, activated by sensors that responded to the movement of viewers and vehicles in the area. One installation invited people to cre-ate patterns in light by playing with a mag-netic field. Another featured a series of video screens scattered around the campus, gather-ing and aggregating the presence of smiles on people’s faces, estimating and reflecting the overall mood of the Institute and assessing how congenial MIT is as a community. Another video installation nested layers of the past into an image of the present, so that when people stepped in front of the screen they saw them-selves descending into the past, joining previ-ous viewers who had passed by. Begun in February, the Festival of Art, Sci-ence + Technology featured an accumulating array of installations from our school that we have reported on before—see PLAN 78—but the weekend in May featured so many more, created specifically for the grand finale, that we couldn’t resist revisiting this story just one more time. The photos here are just a sampling. To see a slideshow of dozens more, visit http://arts.mit.edu/fast/fast-light/. To see some beautiful videos: http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/sap

In New Orleans, students are currently working with city planners on a comprehensive zoning ordinance; on developing design standards for nudging growth in desired directions; and on how to develop neighborhood activism to influence policy.

First Prize Winner—Dot Corner: Shared Lives Shared Knowledge. Street View Along Park Street. James Buckley of SA+P’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning was the faculty advisor.

Still Rebuilding New OrleansSA+P’s Sustained Commitment Seeks to Extend Still Further

(Top Left)SKY Event. Rising above the Great Dome of MIT, immense inflatable stars soared over Killian Court during FAST Light, the culminating event of the MIT150 Festival of Art, Science + Technology. By Otto Piene, Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies.

(Top Right)String Tunnel. A tunnel of nylon threads created a sense of approach to and from the Infinite Corridor. By Yuna Kim, Kelly Shaw and Travis Williams, graduate students in architecture.

(Bottom)Liquid Archive. An inflatable screen, anchored to a floating platform, provided a backdrop for dynamic projections featuring several artist proposals conceived in 1972 as part of the Charles River Project at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies. By Nader Tehrani, Head of the Department of Architecture, and Gediminas Urbonas, Associate Professor of Visual Arts in the Department of Architecture.

THE FESTIVAL’S GRAND FINALETWO NIGHTS OF SURPRISE AND DELIGHT

Thirteen SA+P students from programs in architecture, urban planning and real estate development were members of winning teams that captured top honors in the 2011 Afford-able Housing Development Competition. Since the contest was established eleven years ago, SA+P has consistently been represented among the top winners, including representa-tion on every first-place team. Sponsored by the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston—in conjunction with the Boston Society of Architects/AIA, Kevin P. Martin & Associates, Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association, ICON Architecture and Shepley Bulfinch—the annual competition pairs teams of talented graduate students with affordable housing organizations to develop proposals for housing in which at least 40% of the units could be sold or rented to low-income house-holds. This year was an especially tough com-petition with eight teams participating from four different schools, an all-time record. The $10K first prize went to a proposal to create 24 affordable family and senior apart-ments, a multi-use learning center and a rede-signed library on the site of the Fields Corner Branch Library in the Dorchester section of Boston. The first-place team collaborated on the proposal with the Vietnamese American Initiative for Development in Dorchester. The $3K third-place winner was Linkage at Brigh-ton, a proposal to expand a senior housing com-plex operated by Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly in Brighton. Each monetary award is shared equally between the student team and the developer. MORE: SAP.MIT.EDU/PLAN

SA+P Shares Top Honors in Housing CompetitionWinning Teams Include Students in Planning, Architecture and Real Estate

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In September, Joichi Ito took over as the new director of the Media Lab, succeeding Frank Moss, who headed the Lab for the past five years; on a hot afternoon in June, we met up with him for a brief introductory chat. The entire interview is online; below, some excerpts:

With all the commitments you already have, why did you want to take on this new responsibility?

There’s a certain amount of exploring you do in your youth—running around trying all kinds of things, working on movie sets, working in nightclubs, working in all kinds of things to try to figure out what it is you really want to be when you grow up. And I think now I’m at the point where I want to focus a little bit more on doing something substantial. In that sense, this is the right time for me to do this.

What do you hope to bring to the Lab?

I think that the Lab has so much… Let me try to phrase it in the right way. I think it would be very easy for a group of super bright stu-dents and super bright faculty in this beautiful building to be completely satisfied just inter-acting among themselves. And what can hap-pen is that you don’t get as much diversity as you could. I think we have something like 25% women; there’s definitely a gender bias that we could do better on. Also I think we have one Arab, two Japanese—there are certain regions that are very underrepresented here. So what I would really like to contribute is a lot more input and a lot more output to different geog-raphies, different types of communities that haven’t connected with the Lab in the past.

What do you mean by different types of communities?

Just as an example, I know people that are starting companies who are college dropouts who would easily fit in here. I don’t want to turn the whole Lab into a bunch of start-up col-lege dropouts, but we could have one or two and I think we’d have a significant difference. And when you think about the way the Lab works, it’s really by having one of each kind of academic, there really is power in that.

A CONVERSATION WITH JOICHI ITONEW DIRECTOR OF THE MEDIA LAB

You seem to have a boundless sense of adventure and a really high tolerance for risk, and I wonder where that comes from. Is it just in your DNA? Does it have to do with how you were raised? What do you think?

I think it’s partially how I was raised. Being brought up in two different cultures, between the US and Japan, I didn’t feel at home in either country really. And then I realized the power of not being in my comfort zone, and its influence on my learning. For me, the way I’ve always learned was to push myself out of my comfort zone and be challenged. Also, I started taking risk really early, failing very early. And failing often was a really important way for me to learn. I was 18 when I screwed up my first company. I think it’s harder to take risks if you’ve never taken them before and you start late. But one of the things that’s interest-ing about the Media Lab is that, in its way, it allows people to fail and fail elegantly. It’s very much a why-don’t-you-give-it-a-try culture.

Of all your accomplishments—and the list is long—what are you most proud of at this point?

Um, let’s see. What am I most proud of? Hmm. If I’m proud of anything it’s the fact that I’m optimistic. Every day I feel like my life is get-ting better, every day I feel like I’m getting smarter and every day I feel like I’m impacting the world more and more and more. So I feel like yesterday was the proudest day of my life and tomorrow will be more proud.

You‘re kind of famous for being one of the world’s most networked people. Do you ever want to just turn it off?

My recent hobby is diving. And diving is great because in diving you can’t talk to anybody. You can’t use your cell phone, GPS doesn’t work underwater. For me, it’s a way of relaxing and focusing at the same time, and it’s very medita-tive.

I read somewhere that you’ve learned things from diving that you’ve been able to apply to your work. I’d be interested to hear something specific about that.

Known as Joi (pronounced ‘Joey’), Ito is recognized as one of the world’s leading thinkers and writers on innovation, technology policy and the Internet. At 44, he is a part of the first generation to grow up with the Web and early on became a pioneer in realizing its potential. He has been an early investor in more than 40 start-up companies—including Flickr and Twitter—and was founder and CEO of the venture capital firm Neoteny Co., Ltd. Currently, he is chairman of the board (and previously CEO) of Creative Commons, a nonprofit organiza-tion that promotes the sharing of digital information. In 1997, at age 31, Ito was listed among TIME’s ‘Cyber-Elite’; in 2001, he was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of the ‘Global Leaders for Tomorrow’; in 2005, Newsweek named him one of the ‘Leaders of The Pack’; and in 2008, BusinessWeek named him one of the ‘25 Most Influential People on the Web’.

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The most recent one probably for me was feed-ing sharks. When you go diving with sharks, you expect that it’ll be really scary. But it turns out that sharks are almost like little puppy dogs. They’re not interested in eating you. They’re interested in the food you have. I was afraid initially. But once you start feeding the sharks you learn a lot of things. You find out that first of all you set the pace, right? If you feed them too fast they start going faster and faster and they get a little bit more aggressive. But you can slow them down by feeding them slower. It’s sort of like the media; if you feed them too fast they go into a frenzy. But you can control the whole mood of the situation by the speed at which you do it.

So from sharks you learned how to deal with the media?

It’s about learning through metaphors.

With all the people you know, all the people you’ve met in the world, who haven’t you yet met that you’d really like to know?

Oh, interesting. Hmm. When I was younger, when I was in my teens and early twenties, I went after every single person that seemed interesting and got to know them. I went and hung out with Timothy Leary and became his godson. I hung out with all those cyber gurus. I went after all the Japanese business leaders, all the industrialists, I went and spent time with Jack Welch. There were all these stars that I met, and some of them taught me lessons. But they weren’t really any happier than the nightclub DJ I knew, or the night shift nurse in my Warcraft Guild. Or anybody, really. I’ve been inspired by just as many people who are not notable as people who are notable, maybe more. So now every person I see, I always feel there’s an opportunity to connect at some level, to learn something.

So the answer to that question is that the person you’re most interested in getting to know is the next person you meet.

Yeah, really. That’s true.

Would you encourage people to get in touch with you?

Oh, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Especially in coun-tries that don’t have a lot of MIT connection, I want to meet the alumni. My travel schedule is on my blog and I tweet all the time about where I’m going. So if anybody wants to connect, I’d look forward to meeting them. READ MORE OF THE INTERVIEW AT SAP.MIT.EDU/PLAN

Connect with Joi at joi.ito.com

Ethan Zuckerman has been appointed the new director of MIT’s Center for Civic Media, suc-ceeding Chris Csikszentmihalyi who will start a new program at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. A leading scholar on digital issues and the Internet’s role in society, Zuckerman has been a longtime fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Cen-ter for Internet and Society, as well as a fellow and advisor to the Center for Civic Media. He was co-founder in 2000 of Geekcorps, a non-profit technology volunteer corps, and in 2004 of Global Voices, a citizen media community with volunteers in more than 100 countries. He has also collaborated on a number of civic media projects over the past decade with new Media Lab director Joi Ito. Indeed, says Ito: ‘Ethan has been my colleague and co-conspir-ator on many of my most inspiring and impor-tant adventures.’ Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Center for Civic Media is a collaborative effort between the Media Lab in the School of Architecture + Planning and the Comparative Media Studies Program in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sci-ences. Since its founding in 2007, it has helped build and bring a sense of community to the field of media innovation, has created a teach-ing program attracting top-flight graduate students and has incubated several promising projects addressing the needs of specific com-munities. At the Center’s annual Civic Media Confer-ence in June, the Knight Foundation announced renewal of the Center’s funding with a three-year $3.76M grant to further its groundbreak-ing work. MORE: SAP.MIT.EDU/PLAN

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Renée Green has been appointed an associate professor in SA+P’s Program in Art, Culture and Technology. As an artist, writer and filmmaker, her practice spans a broad range of media includ-ing video, film, sound, photography and prints, which usually converge in complex, spatial installations that examine ideas, events and narratives—as well as cultural artifacts—from multiple perspectives. Her work has a strong research base and because of the selective accumulation of the materials, it is also consid-ered as context-specific and archival. Displayed at different locations, Green’s installations often recur during a span of time, but in different media and formats and expand-ed with new material. For example, Import/Export Funk Office (1992), was presented as an installation in Cologne and Los Angeles, and exists also as CD-Rom (1996); and Code: Survey (2005–2006) takes the form of a per-manent public work installed at the Caltrans Headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles, and as a website, which can be accessed worldwide. Her explicit subjects have been wide rang-ing—from the social valence of race and gender in the twined histories of Josephine Baker and Saartjie Baartman (known as the ‘Hottentot Venus’) (Revue, 1989), to the sug-gestive nature of cultural exchange between US and European popular and intellectual cul-tures (Import/Export Funk Office, 1992). But her underlying subject—the formation of the individual consciousness and the fluid nature of human subjectivity—has remained consistent throughout. MORE: SAP.MIT.EDU/PLAN

Azra Akšamija has been appointed an assistant professor in SA+P’s Program in Art, Culture and Technology. A Sarajevo-born artist and architectural historian, Akšamija’s transdisciplinary practice explores the potency of public art in arbitrat-ing cultural and political conflicts using vari-ous types of media—including clothing, video, performance, sculpture and/or new media. Her recent projects focus on the representation of Islamic identities in the West, the spatial medi-ation of identity politics and cultural interac-tion through art and architecture, a focus that has grown out of her personal experience of fleeing Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1990s war and resettling in Austria. Over the course of the past decade, Akšamija has developed a methodological framework that makes her practice unique in the art world—her art draws from her historical and theoretical research and her projects explore the interplay of art, culture and technology as an integral part of her academic teaching and research. All in all, her practice is a pioneering example of research across disciplines in which the artistic, the architectural and the historical components can stand on their own and make equally valid contributions in their respective fields, yet gain additional qualities through the methodological blend. Her study of mosques, for example, contrib-utes to discourse on nationalism, globalization and identity construction while also informing her artistic explorations of Islam in the West and the conflicts over the increasing visibility of Muslims in American and European public space.MORE: SAP.MIT.EDU/PLAN

Renée Green Appointed Associate ProfessorArtist, Writer, Filmmaker Working in a Range of Media

Azra Akšamija Appointed Assistant ProfessorArtist/Architectural Historian Explores Potency of Public Art

(Above Left)Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams, 2010. Installation view, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

(Above Right)Green has been a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna; a Distinguished Artist/Professor at UC/Santa Barbara; and Dean of Graduate Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute.

(Below Left)Akšamija has contributed to advancing the cultural production in the Western Balkans by promoting the work of regional artists and architects abroad, and by bringing in international cultural producers to the region.

(Below Right)Flocking Mosque, 2008. Inspired by façade decoration from religious monuments in Islamic societies, the project juxtaposes geometric patterns with the patterns of worshipper behavior.

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SA+P ALUM REPRESENTS U.S. AT VENICE BIENNALE

JENNIFER ALLORA AND GUILLERMO CALZADILLA CREATE A SENSATION AT NATIONAL PAVILION

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Hailed by the Kunst Bulletin as “the shoot-ing stars of the international art scene”, and prominently featured in the New York Times, Allora & Calzadilla are showing six new works in Venice developed specifically for the US pavilion as part of an installation called Gloria, on display through November 27. According to NPR’s Christopher Livesay, the whole experi-ence is “majestically profane and destined for controversy, just as works from such past Biennale artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns were in their day”. Collaborating since 1995, Allora & Calza-dilla have shown in galleries and museums from Puerto Rico to Korea, France and Prague, and their works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern and Centre Georges Pompidou, among others. But for years they have been better known outside the US than they are at home. Recently, how-ever, they have become more widely recog-nized in the US for their hybrid works that mix sculpture, photography, performance, sound and video. Outside the US Pavilion in Venice, for instance—reportedly ‘wowing the crowds’—is an upturned 60-ton tank that has been repur-posed as a treadmill. At regular intervals, an Olympic athlete climbs the tank to work out on the treadmill, activating the upended treads and sending a loud metallic clanking through-out the Giardini di Castello. According to Laura McLean-Ferris, writing in The Independent, the work is “more com-plex than its description might suggest. The way in which the figure…is dwarfed by the mil-itary machine, and yet puts all his energy into powering it, running himself into the ground, as it were, makes a political statement about America and war”. Indeed, the entire pavilion, she wrote, “is a particularly successful exam-ple of a feeling that is everywhere at the 2011 Biennale—anxiety about national representa-tion and what this might mean”. In an interview with ArtInfo, David Mees, the US cultural attaché in Rome, was asked about the critical light the installation casts on US militarism. “If a Republican president could warn us about the military-industrial complex in, I think it was 1961,” he said, “then

artists from Puerto Rico in 2011 can certainly make comments about military power. I think it just shows our strength. “Any reasonable American,” he went on, “sees that there are many sides to the use of armed force, and I think that it is perfectly appropriate for artists of all people to ask dif-ficult questions… This is not an in-depth politi-cal assessment of the defense department, and it doesn’t pretend to be. It’s an art project.” In an interview with NPR, the pavilion’s curator Lisa Freiman said “A lot of people asked us, ‘Did the US government know what they were getting when they chose Allora and Calzadilla?’ And I said, ‘Yeah! They knew everything!’… It’s been an interesting experi-ment in transparency and it seems to have worked.” The artists’ presence at the Biennale rep-resents something of a triple play for the US: this is the first time a collaborative, rather than a single artist, has been chosen to represent us; the first time that a combination of perfor-mance and installation occupy our pavilion; and the first time artists working in Puerto Rico, rather than on the mainland, have received the coveted commission. Also exhibiting in this year’s Biennale is alumna and newly appointed faculty member Azra Akšamija whose ‘Monument in Waiting’, a kilim designed by her and woven by women war refugees, is part of Penelope’s Labour: Weaving Words and Images on view at the Cini Foundation; and Narda Alvarado, a second-year masters candidate in the Program in Art, Culture and Technology—a native of Bolivia, Alvarado is featured at the Pavilion of the Isti-tuto Italo-Latino Americano with a 16-minute video animation. Yet another representative of SA+P at the Biennale, Ute Meta Bauer took part in a con-ference on Art as a Thinking Process: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production in June, pre-senting research-based artistic practice at SA+P’s Program in Art, Culture and Technol-ogy, which she directs. MORE: SAP.MIT.EDU/PLAN

SA+P ALUMNA JENNIFER ALLORA (SMVISS’03), WITH HER PARTNER GUILLERMO

CALZADILLA—JOINTLY KNOWN AS ALLORA & CALZADILLA, AN ARTIST TEAM

WORKING IN PUERTO RICO—ARE REPRESENTING THE US AT THIS YEAR’S PRESTI-

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(A)Algorithm. A 20-foot tall interactive sculpture, Algorithm combines a custom-made pipe organ with an automatic teller machine; as visitors withdraw their euros, their PINs generate bursts of music set up by composer Jonathan Bailey. (Photo: Andrew Bordwin)

(B)Body in Flight (American). Full-scale wooden replicas of business class airline seats are repurposed as training equipment for US Olympic-winning gymnasts; pictured here, David Durange using the seat as a pommel horse. (Photo: Andrew Bordwin)

(C)Track and Field. Installed outside the US pavilion entrance, Track and Field features a 60-ton military tank with a treadmill mounted above its right track; Olympic gold medalist Dan O’Brien runs on the treadmill at scheduled intervals, with other athletes from the US team running on it throughout the exhibition. (Photo: Andrew Bordwin)

(D)Armed Freedom Lying on a Sunbed. A bronze replica of the Statue of Freedom, which sits atop the dome of the US Capitol Building, is scaled down in order to fit inside an open tanning bed; the work is housed within the pavilion’s rotunda, which echoes the architecture of the Capitol Building. (Photo: Andrew Bordwin)

(E)Monument in Waiting. The pattern of this hand-woven kilim tells the story of the systematic devastation of Islamic cultural heritage during the war and points at the impact of this erasure of memory on the Bosniaks’ religious, ethnic and national identities today. (Photo: © Azra Akšamija)

(F)Polytheist Eclectic Everlasting Daily Party. Video and animation with hand-drawn digitally painted images. Color, sound, voice; 16 minutes, 2009. (Images: Courtesy of Narda Alvardo)

Two candidates for the MS in Real Estate Development were awarded Heather Smith Memorial Fellowships at a gala in June. The fellowships are named for the fiancée of SA+P alum Mike Jammen (MSRED’97), who was aboard American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11, 2001. Awarded annually, the fellowships are based on financial need, career objectives and academic standing; to date, over $170K has been awarded. This year’s recipi-ents were:

Christina Fenbert. Originally from Detroit, Christina Fenbert earned her BS in Business Administration from Central Michigan Univer-sity in 2003, concentrating on international business and French. In her role as a Senior Portfolio Manager at CWCapital LLC, a national real estate and investment manage-ment firm, she was responsible for a $1.68B portfolio of highly structured commercial real estate loan transactions ranging from multi-family to office, retail and hospitality proper-ties spread across the United States.

Khadija Oubala. A native of Casablanca, Morocco, Oubala earned her BA in Finance from Al Akhawayn University in 2000 and her MBA in Finance & International Business from NYU’s Stern School of Business in 2005. She joined MIT after spending five years in the Middle East heading up the real estate divi-sion for a sponsored investment firm focused on emerging Asian markets. She has asked that we include here a tribute to her brother Yas-sine, who died June 3 at age 44. ’It was during one of our last conversations,’ she wrote, ‘that he reiterated the pride he felt as a brother after learning that I was awarded the Heather Smith Memorial Fellowship. He supported and encouraged me to push further and accomplish more my entire life.’ MORE: SAP.MIT.EDU/PLAN

MSRED Students Receive Memorial ScholarshipsIn Memory of Heather Smith Who Died 9/11 on AA Flight 11

All four of the top prizes in this year’s Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts went to graduate students in SA+P. Since the prize was established in 1996 to recognize a body of artwork by a current MIT student, our students have consistently won top honors in the competition. This year’s $5K first prize winner was Sarah Witt, a graduate student in the Art, Cul-ture and Technology program. A performance artist working under the pseudonym ‘Human Preservation Laboratory’, Witt investigates how people interact with constructed environ-ments, aiming to help us understand our role as members of a species ‘seemingly determined to shuck off its humanity in pursuit of the unat-tainable’. The $2500 second prize winner was Otto Ng, an MArch student and graduate researcher in the SENSEable City Laboratory. Working across disciplinary boundaries, Ng engages in design, research and consultation in architec-ture, urban planning and interactive media. The $2K third prize was shared this year by Sohin Hwang and Hannah Perner-Wilson. Hwang is a graduate researcher in the Pro-gram in Art, Culture and Technology; Perner-Wilson is a graduate student in the High-Low Tech research group at the Media Lab. The Schnitzer Prize was established through an endowment from Harold and Arlene Schnitzer of Portland OR. Schnitzer, a real estate investor, graduated from MIT in 1944 with a degree in metallurgy; he died this past April at age 87 from complications of can-cer and diabetes. MORE: SAP.MIT.EDU/PLAN

SA+P Students Sweep Schnitzer AwardsTwo Students of Art, One of Architecture and One of Media

(Near Right)Khadija Oubala. (Photo: Courtesy of Khadija Oubala)

(Far Right)Christina Fenbert. (Photo: Judith M. Daniels/SA+P)

(Below Left)Eight Steps by Hannah Perner-Wilson and Mika Satomi depicts the making of a wearable piano to encourage a view of technology that is primarily about what one wants rather than having one’s imagination constrained by what is available.

(Below Center)aFloat by Otto Ng, a kinetic illumination project installed in the MIT Chapel to celebrate MIT150, produced with a network of LEDs, piezo sensors and mechanical linkages.

(Below Right)An image from (RE)CONTAMI-NATE by Sarah Witt, an unannounced intervention that took place at the Media Lab during the MIT150 Open House.

(Photo: Kobakant) (Photo: © Andy Ryan) (Video Still: Courtesy of Sarah Witt)

MIT’s William Barton Rogers Lobby—more commonly known as Lobby 7, the main entrance on Massachusetts Avenue—was the focus of a spirited contest this spring that awarded stu-dents a total of $27K in prizes from MIT’s Class of 1954. Designed by William Welles Bosworth as the culminating element of his 1916 campus design, the lobby space includes four plinths at the corners of the great rotunda that were originally intended as bases for statues of Aris-totle, Ictinus, Archimedes and Callicrates. But since their completion in 1939, the plinths have remained forever empty. This year, however, as part of MIT’s 150th anniversary celebration, the Class of 1954 issued a grand challenge to students in all departments to come up with ways to fill the four plinths. The competition received 54 entries from across the Institute, 14 of which were chosen as finalists and included in an exhibit in SA+P’s Wolk Gallery. The six prize winners were presented at the April opening of the show by Associate Dean Mark Jarzombek, who organized the competition and chaired the jury. The $10K Grand Prize winner in the grad-uate student category went to Inverted Plat-form, a proposed installation of four sculptures, each of which recalls the shape of a traditional phonograph but which amplifies text instead of sound; as visitors speak into the horns, their words are translated into text by speech rec-ognition software and projected up the walls of the lobby and across its dome, sometimes deliberately mangling the words with surpris-ing and comical results. MORE: SAP.MIT.EDU/PLAN

The Lobby 7 Design CompetitionTheoretical Ideas Contest Nets Students $27K in Prizes

From September 16 through December 30, SA+P’s Wolk Gallery is showing a collection of photos by Margaret Morton, Professor of Art at The Cooper Union; the exhibit features introductory text written by Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor in MIT’s Department of Architecture. The exhibit is the result of Morton’s three-year photographic project in the Kyrgyz Repub-lic. From 2006-2008, she traveled throughout this Central Asian country, living with families, visiting tribal burial grounds and consulting with scholars. She discovered regional differ-ences that ranged from towering monuments to hand-hewed wood posts marked with horns of mountain goats. From the exhibit’s press release: ‘Seen from a distance, a Kyrgyz cemetery is aston-ishing. The ornate domes and minarets, tightly clustered behind stone walls, are so completely at odds with the desolate mountain landscape that at first they seem a mirage—miniature walled cities that appear unexpectedly on the edges of inaccessible cliffs, or stretched along deserted roads, displaying an otherworldly grandeur out of context with their isolated sur-roundings.’ Morton has published four books of her photography and has exhibited in more than twenty-five solo and fifty group exhibitions in the US and Europe. Her Kyrgyzstan project has been supported by grants from the Graham Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts and University of Central Asia. MORE: SAP.MIT.EDU/PLAN

Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of KyrgyzstanPhotographs by Margaret Morton

Graceful crescent moons balanced on fragile metal rods float above domes and peaked towers; within the walls, scattered among the imposing mausoleums, delicate metal frames evoke the form and structure of yurts. (Photo: Margaret Morton)

(Below Left)The $10K Grand Prize winner in the graduate student category went to Ann Woods, Nadya Volicer and Florence Dougherty for Inverted Platform.

(Below Right)Finalists Hannah Walker and Megan Walker proposed Cascade of Interactivity.

(Photos: Judith M. Daniels/SA+P)

NEW BOOKS FROM OUR FACULTYADDRESSING THE ENVIRONMENT, CITIES, ARCHITECTURE, ANGRY PEOPLE AND ‘CREATIVE MAGIC’

JoAnn Carmin and Adam Fagan, Editors. Green Activism in Post-Socialist Europe and the Former Soviet Union (Routledge, May 2011). After the downfall of Soviet-style communism in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s, environmentalists were expected to form the bedrock of the new civil societies that were predicted to flourish across the region. Through country case studies and compara-tive analysis of national movements, this volume explores green politics in the region two decades later.

Alexander D’Hooghe. The Liberal Monument: Urban Design and the Late Modern Project (Princeton Architectural Press, December 2010). The Liberal Monument is a provocative, accessible work of theory that challenges all of the accepted truths of urban design. Its goal is to restore the confidence architecture will need, whether it is building cities from the ground up in China and Dubai or managing the growth of the sprawling suburbs of Phoenix and Raleigh/Durham.

Andrew Scott and Eran Ben-Joseph. ReNew Town: Adaptive Urbanism and the Design of the Low Carbon Community (Rout-ledge, December 2011). ReNew Town puts forth an innovative vision of performative design and planning for low-carbon sustain-able development, and illustrates practicable strategies for balancing environmental systems with urban infrastructure and new housing prototypes. The book is the product of a collaborative design research project with Japan’s Sekisui House LTD.

JoAnn Carmin and Julian Agyeman, Editors. Environmental Inequalities Beyond Borders: Local Perspectives on Global Injustices (Urban and Industrial Environments). (The MIT Press, April 2011). Case studies drawn from Africa, Asia, the Pacific Rim and Latin America assess how diverse types of global inequalities play out on local terrains, demon-strating the disconnect between global consumption and production on the one hand and local environ-mental quality and human rights on the other.

Frank Moss. The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives. (Crown Business, June 2011). In this exhilarating tour of the Media Lab’s inner sanctums, readers meet the professors and their students—the Sorcerers and their Apprentices—and witness first hand the creative magic behind inventions such as Nexi, CityCar, Sixth Sense and PowerFoot.

Nasser Rabbat. Mamluk History Through Architecture: Monuments, Culture and Politics in Medieval Egypt and Syria (I.B. Tauris, November 2010). Analyzing Mamluk constructions as a form of communication and documentation as well as a cultural index, Mamluk History Through Architecture shows how the buildings mirror the com-plex—and historically unique—mili-tary, political, social and financial structures of Mamluk society.

Lawrence Susskind and Patrick Field. Dealing with an Angry Public: The Mutual Gains Approach To Resolving Disputes (Free Press, November 2010). Some of the American public will react nega-tively to almost any new corporate initiative. Similarly, government efforts to change policy or shift budget priorities are invariably met with stiff resistance. Susskind and Field show how resistance to both public and private initiatives can be overcome by a mutual gains approach involving face-to-face negotiation.

Diane E. Davis and Nora Libertun de Duren, Editors. Cities and Sov-ereignty: Identity Politics in Urban Spaces (Indiana University Press, February 2011). The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume examine the interrelationships of ethnic, racial, religious or other identity conflicts and larger battles over sovereignty and governance. Employing comparative analysis, case studies from the Middle East, Europe, and South and Southeast Asia advance our understanding of the nature of urban conflict.

Ralph Gakenheimer and Harry T. Dimitriou, Authors and Editors. Urban Transport in the Developing World: A Handbook of Policy and Practice (Edward Elgar Publishing, May 2011). The twenty thematic chapters in this book provide a broad set of perspectives on the plight, possibilities and opportu-nities of urban transport in the developing world set against the challenges of sustainable develop-ment. The contributors present a critical review of recent develop-ments that have taken place that offer lessons for the future.

Nasser Rabbat. The Courtyard House (Ashgate, September 2010). A series of viewpoints on courtyard houses from different periods and in different regions of the world—from the Harem courtyards of the Topkapi Palace and the low-cost housing settlements of Protectorate Casablanca, to contemporary design strategies for courtyard houses in the Gulf region—illuminating issues of particular relevance in architec-tural, art historical, and conserva-tion discourses today.

Judith Layzer. The Environmental Case: Translating Values Into Policy. (CQ Press College, April 2011). Through its 16 carefully constructed cases, the book gives readers a first-hand look at some of the most interesting and illuminating contro-versies in US environmental policy making. This third edition features fully revised and updated case studies, as well as three brand new cases: Cape Wind and Alternative Energy, Ecosystem-Based Manage-ment in the Chesapeake Bay and the restoration of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

$1M+Dorothy LemelsonHamid Moghadam ’77, SM’78 ~Family of Princess MoudiMasanori Nagashima MAA’76Knight Foundation Legatum FoundationMastercard Foundation

$250,000–$999,999Kawther Al-AboodPaul G. AllenJonathan Borschow ’72Google IncorporatedIntel FoundationThe Kendeda FundSchaffer FoundationRita and Joseph B. Scheller ’54

$50,000–$249,999Irving BarrCisco Systems, IncorporatedWallace H. Coulter FoundationCummings FoundationDallah Albaraka GroupDeutsche Bank Americas FoundationDiller-Von Furstenberg Family FoundationEnergy FoundationElisabeth and Dan M. FeshbachJohn M. Hennessy DO’70Intel CorporationJohnson FoundationLego FoundationJoyce LindeMarks Family FoundationNokia, IncorporatedNokia Research CenterNTT Comware CorporationPartners Healthcare SystemPhilips Solid State LightRockefeller FoundationRoger W. SantTiffany & Co. Foundation

$25,000–$49,999AMB Property, L.P. ~Associated British FoodsBeeah Planners, Architects & EngineersTommy Chao SM’99 ~Eric ChowCommerce One BPO, LLCEdison FoundationJohn Ehara ’75, ’76Formspring.me, IncorporatedIBM International FoundationMichael Jammen SM’97 ~Robert Mashaal SM’89 ~Terry Meehan MAR’83Nanyang Technological InstituteOffice Depot, IncorporatedA. Neil Pappalardo ’64Daniel G. Prigmore ~Kristin Prigmore MSRED’97Stonyfield Farm, IncorporatedHenry D. Wallace

$10,000–$24,999Sarah Abrams MSRED’85 ~Ancar Ivanhoe Shopping CentersThomas Andrews MSRED’87 ~John Barrie SM’94 ~Joseph P. Blake ’54Alan Borstein ’57Campanelli ~Junghun Choi MSRED’08 ~Joseph T. Chung ’89, SM’89Berk Ciller SM’07 ~Brit d’Arbeloff SM’61David desJardins ’83Terry Eastman ~First Act IncorporatedFundacion Universitaria San Pablo CEURobert GoldbergJacques N. Gordon PhD’87Ernest Grunsfeld ’52Andrew C. Hong ’89, SM’92Carl C. Howard ’29, SM’30Yoo Hoon Jeon SM’10 ~Geraldine KunstadterJason Lee MSRED’01 ~Robert Mayhall SM’88 ~Stephen Memishian SM’70Kim and Frank Moss SM ’72, PhD ’77National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia & DepressionDawn C. Netsch

Alexander Rigopulos ’92, SM ’94Rose Associates, IncorporatedPeter Roth MAR’86, SM’86 ~Susan Schur ’60, SM’60Service Employees Intern UnionRay Stata ’57, SM’58Harvey Steinberg ’54Koichiro Taira SM’00 ~Midori Suzuki-Tsushima MSRED’96 ~Felicia and Liam Thornton MSRED’92 ~Elizabeth H. Wiltshire

$5,000–$9,999Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern CaliforniaThomas G. Beischer PhD’04Aaron Binkley MSRED’07 ~Peter BloomRoger S. Borovoy ’56Mary Boutwell MSRED’87 ~Professor Leah BuechleyOliver Carr SM’92 ~Paul Clayton SM’07 ~Russell Cox ’49Crayola LLC / HallmarkRobert DeLaney MSRED’05 ~Trudy EdelsonThomas Ford MSRED’85Christian Gardner MSRED’04 ~David Geller SM’85 ~Deborah and David Geltner PhD’89 ~D. Michael Gray SM’85 ~Hines InterestsJohn F. Kennedy SM’76 ~James Loewenberg ’56Sunwoo Nam MSRED’94 ~Matthew Ostrower MCP’95, SM’95 ~John Perkins MSRED’94 ~Relevate GroupEarl Rennison SM’95C. Otto ScharmerJohn Schlossman MAR’56Louis Slesin PhD’78Daniel Streissguth MAR’49James E. Thomas ’83, MAR’86, SM’86 ~TIAA-CREFYahoo

$2,500–$4,999Can Aydinoglu SM’04 ~Jack Belz ’48Benchmark Assisted LivingPeter Bernholz ’57Jason Blank SM’00, MBA’01 ~Idit Harel Caperton PhD’88Capital Crossings Servicing CompanyCPI Management ~Daniel DubnoDaniel Elder SM’87 ~Charles Fendrock ’75Catherine Fogelman SM’98 ~Takashi Fukumura MCP’94, MSRED’94 ~Rosanne Goldstein Gordon Gonzales MSRED’85 ~HR&A AdvisorsJeremy Hall MSRED’93 ~Feng Han MSRED’05 ~Victor Hoskins MCP’81Jeffrey Johnston MSRED’94Chang Hyun Kim MSRED’96 ~Woosung Kim MAA’72Leslie M. Klein ’72, MAR’74Jong Yoon Lim MSRED’06 ~Stephen Mahler ’80, MAR’83Yoshitaka Matsuda MCP’95, SM’95 ~Charles Myer SM’85 ~Randy Nichols SM’89 ~Oxford PropertiesGene S. Park MAR’87Rae Ik Park MCP’99, MSRED’99 ~Glenn P. Parker ’83Diane Peters-Hoskins ’79Charles Pettigrew MSRED’01 ~Real Capital AnalyticsJonathan Richter MSRED’95 ~Mark Roberts MSRED’94Eleanor Rowan ’47Bernard Schachter SM’85 ~Erwin Schowengerdt ’52Wonho Seo MSRED’07, MCP’10 ~Joan Shafran SM’80Joyce Sit MSRED’96 ~Michael F. Slezak MAR’78Lawrence Speck ’71, MAR’72TA Associates PartnersMasato Tanaka SM’98 ~A. Anthony Tappé MAR ’58, MCP ’58Jeng-Bin Tsai SM’07 ~Hiroo Yamagata SM’95 ~Yajie Zhao SM’03 ~

THE DEAN’S CIRCLESCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE + PLANNINGJULY 1, 2010—JUNE 30, 2011

The Dean’s Circle of the MIT School of Architecture + Planning is comprised of generous donors who are integral in sustaining the excellence of education, research and programs throughout the School. Their gifts of $1200 or more support the visionary endeavors of diligent students and faculty. We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the following alumni, friends and institutions whose gifts are essential to our success.

$1,200–$2,499Paul Adornato SM’92 ~Frederick Bentel MAR’50Brandon Berger SM’07 ~Berger CompaniesHans Bleiker PhD’72CBRE Econometric AdvisorsCBRE Global ResearchStephen Carr MAR’61David Cohan MSRED’92 ~Karen Conway MAR’86Ben Dookchitra MCP’07Evelynn Doone ’73Lawrence Ellman MSRED’92 ~Louise Elving MCP’73Tony Feng MSRED’10 ~Ronald Frankel MA’96Barbara FreemanRichard Furman ’81, MAR’84William Gause MSRED’93 ~Robert Gobel ’69 Eliot Goldstein ’77, MAR’80Roger Goldstein ’74, MAR’76Ryan Haas MSRED’06 ~Tong Hahn MSRED’93 ~Jorge Harth-Deneke MAR ’58, MCP ’58Mark Hochman MCP’74Dongwook Kim MSRED’07 ~Toby Kramer SM’91 ~T. William Kwan ’54Alvan G. Lampke ’53John H. Larson MCP’55Haegyu Lee MSRED’07 ~Alfonzo Leon SM’99 ~Julius Levine MCP’60Kathleen MacNeil MSRED’88 ~Pamela McKoin SM’85 ~Peter Mcnally SM’96 ~Deryk Meherik SM’02 ~Martha and Max Rubinstein Family FoundationTrevor Nelson ’59Northrop Grumman CorporationGeorge Pappadopoulos SM’95 ~Scott Peltier SM’01 ~Andrew Popik SM’89 ~Reena and Jeffrey Racki MAA ’74, MCP ’74Jeffrey Rapson MCP ’02, MRE ’02, SM ’02 ~

William Rawn MAR’79Shirley ResnickPatrick Rowe SM’07 ~Salem Five BankCarol Shen MAR’71Roger Shepley MAR’82O. Robert Simha MCP’57Stanley Steinberg MAR’59Sherwood Stockwell ’49Barth Timmermann SM’97 ~Robert Turner ’74, MAR’77Lilla WaltchHong Wang MSRED’93 ~Ellen Watts MSRED’85 ~Steven Weikal MCP’08, SM’08 ~Yisheng Yu SM’04 ~Lee Yun MSRED’03 ~

~ Donors to the Center for Real Estate new headquarters (CRE Classroom 2000+ Fund)

This list recognizes donors to the MIT School of Architecture + Planning, exclusive of gifts to the Rotch Library and the Rotch Visual Collections. We have made every effort to verify the accuracy of this list. However, if some errors or omissions have occurred, we extend our sincere apologies. If your name has been omitted or incorrectly listed, please bring the error to our attention.

Last year, to seed the fundraising effort of the MIT Center for Real Estate—a 25th anniver-sary drive to underwrite the cost of the Center’s impending relocation to Building 9, in the heart of SA+P—MIT alumnus Hamid Moghadam (’77, SM’78) launched a challenge to get the enterprise underway, inspiring alumni/ae and friends to give $1M—and he would match it. His generosity led to many gifts from alumni and friends of the Center’s Master of Science in Real Estate Development program, ultimately exceeding the challenge. Those loy-al supporters are indicated on this year’s list of donors, opposite, and we are deeply grateful for their continued largesse. But we also felt it appropriate to give special attention here, and particular thanks, to Mr. Moghadam. ‘Hamid is one of the leaders of the entire real estate industry,’ says Center Chairman Tony Ciochetti, ‘so we are especially pleased to acknowledge his long-standing support of the Center, both domestically and abroad. His generous backing on this particular effort gives us a great opportunity to more closely align our operations with the other divisions of the School of Architecture + Planning.’ ‘It is a pleasure to support this important campaign for space,’ says Moghadam. ‘The MIT Center has established a solid reputa-tion for real estate education over the years, and this new space will allow it to grow and develop still further over time.’ Moghadam is chairman and co-CEO of the newly formed Prologis Incorporated, in San Francisco. He was previously chairman of the board and CEO of AMB Property Corporation, which he founded in 1983. He has served as chairman of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts and the Real Estate Investment Trust Political Action Committee, and is a founding member of the Real Estate Roundtable.

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DATEBOOKFALL/WINTER 2011

THROUGH OCTOBER 24My New Theater: Reading Dante III. An exhibition of four videos created by Professor Joan Jonas with music by Jason Moran and David Lang. Media Lab Complex Lobby, E14, 75 Amherst Street.

OCTOBER 21–DECEMBER 31Otto Piene: Lichtballett. An exhibit of light-based sculptural work by the director of SA+P’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies from 1974-94. List Visual Arts Center, E15, 20 Ames Street.

THROUGH DECEMBER 30Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan. An exhibit of photos by Margaret Morton with introductory text by SA+P Professor Nasser Rabbat. M-F 9AM – 5PM, Wolk Gallery 7-338.

THROUGH DECEMBER 31The MIT 150 Exhibition. A year-long exhibit highlighting 150 years of MIT history and featuring an impressive array of important milestones from SA+P. 10AM–5PM. MIT Museum, N51.

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(Cover)Maxwell’s Dream: Painting with Light, an installation from the Festival of Art, Science + Technology that allowed visitors to play with a magnetic field to create patterns in light. (By Kaustuv De Biswas and Daniel Rosenberg, graduate students in architecture)(Photo: © Andy Ryan)

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