DESIGN FOR CONVERSATIONS

CONVERSATIONS FOR DESIGN

Wednesday, 20 May 1992


12:30 Buffet Lunch

Harvard Club Second Floor Aescalopian Room
374 Commonwealth Avenue Boston 02215
617 536 1260

1:20

1 Preface and Context

2 Citizen takes Options

3 Visualization & Simulation

4 A Front-End to Demand-Activated Production


Introduction to MIT Presentations

1:50 Travel by van

2:00 Interactive Design

Ed Levine, Director, Visual Arts Program

MIT Department of Architecture Bldg N51 Rm 315
265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge 02139
617 253 3086

3:00 Media Lab Overview, Walkthrough of HDTV and Spatial Imaging

Penny Blaisdell, Director, Communications and Sponsor Relations

MIT Media Lab Bldg E15 Rm 235
20 Ames Street Cambridge 02139
617 253 0338

3:40 Software for Qualitative Design

Muriel Cooper, Director, Visual Language Workshop

MIT Media Lab Bldg E15 Rm 443
617 253 4416


4:50 Return by van

5 Design Methodologies


Harvard Club Third Floor Esterbrook Room

6:00 Refreshments & Hotel Check-In

The Eliot Hotel
370 Commonwealth Avenue Boston 02215
617 267 1607

7:00 Travel by van

Dinner

798 Main Restaurant
798 Main Street Cambridge 02142
617 876 8444

Thursday, 21 May 1992


8:00 Breakfast, Harvard Club Second Floor Aescalopian Room

8:45

6 Du Pont in Transition
7 Costless Switching


Introduction to NYNEX Presentations

10:15 Travel by van

NYNEX Shuttle & Factory Floor Video
Media Broadband Service

Nathan Felde, Director, Media Research Lab
NYNEX Science & Technology

38 Sydney Street Cambridge 02139
617 621 3060

12:15 Return by van

Lunch, Harvard Club Second Floor Aescalopian Room

Hotel Check-out, The Eliot Hotel

2:00

8 Computation --> Living Systems


Movie Maps, Telepresence, Virtual Reality

Michael Naimark, President, Naimark & Company
Partner, The Telepresence Alliance

Coffee Break

9 Conversations for Understanding
10 Simulearning


5:30 Depart by van to airport

6:30 Flight Departure

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