Professors Tod Machover (MIT Media Lab) and Meejin Yoon (Head, Dept. of Architecture)
February 4 Introduction to “Empathy, 8th Art, and the Future of Experience”
Tod Machover (MIT Media Lab) and Meejin Yoon (MIT Architecture)
February 11 Cultivating and Curating Empathy
Tenzin Priyadarshi (MIT Dalai Lama Center) and Allegra Libonati (Harvard A.R.T.)
* February 14 An Evening with Doug Trumbull (Special Effects guru, “Mod” Pavillions, etc.)
February 18 The 8th Art: Concepts and Technologies for Multisensory Performance
Peter Torpey and Ben Bloomberg, MIT Media Lab
* February 21 - Field Trip to The Donkey Show (Club Oberon, Harvard Square)
February 25 Radical Expos/Transformative Spaces (followed by dinner/conversation)
Tod Machover and Meejin Yoon
March 4 Immersive Performance and the New Art of “Experience”
Neil Thomas, Atelier One (London)
March 11 Measuring and Reinforcing Affective Empathy
Rosalind Picard, MIT Media Lab
March 18 First Project Review & Critique
March 25 ** Spring Break **
April 1 To Tech or Not to Tech? The Psychology of Empathy
Sherry Turkle, Rockefeller Professor of Psychology and Social Science, MIT
* April 3-5 - Class Trip to New York (Björk@MoMA, FLEXN @ Park Avenue Armory, 9/11 Museum,
Rubin Museum of Tibetan Buddhist Art, New Museum Triennial, etc.)
April 8 The Politics and Possibilities of Cross-cultural Empathy
Ethan Zuckerman, MIT Media Lab and Danish Masood (UN Alliance of Civilizations and BeAnotherLab)
* April 9- Liz Diller (Diller, Scofidio + Renfro) @ MIT
April 15 Second Project Review/Presentations for ML Members Week
April 22 One-on-One / Two-by-Two Individual + Group Experiences
Tomas Saraceno
* April 24-25 - Tomas Saraceno @ MIT
April 29 Revolutionary Spaces for Performance, Celebration and Contemplation
Craig Dykers, co-founder and co-principal of Snøhetta (Copenhagen and New York)
May 6 Third Project Review/Critique
May 13 Final Course Presentation