Trash to Treasure Designs 12:00 PM Kendall/MIT Open Space: The Festival Zone Come and visit Somerville-based artist Consuelo Perez and her upcycled designs to learn more about creating art with the ordinary household items around us. Read More
Design, Fashion & Technology at MIT 10:00 AM MIT Museum: Lobby On display at the MIT Museum Lee Family Exchange Space will be a series of fashion and textile works from MIT’s Self Assembly Lab and student works from Intelligent Skin, a studio taught in collaboration with fashion designer Hussein Chalayan. Read More
Department of Play Block Party 06:00 PM Kendall/MIT Open Space: The Festival Zone Block Party reimagines the building block as an assemblage of two interlinking units. People are invited to assemble the jumbo foam blocks into fantastical shapes. Read More
The Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Fashion Value Chain 02:30 PM MIT Museum: The Lee Family Exchange A presentation by Michael Ferraro, Executive Director of the Design and Technology Lab (DTech) at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC, Amy Sperber, assistant professor, FIT Fashion Design+3D Specialist and Haley Schwartz, FIT student, Fashion Design. Read More
Color-Changing Cephalopods 12:00 PM Kendall/MIT Open Space: The Festival Zone Come discover how cephalopods camouflage with hands-on demos using cephalopod specific pigments embedded within color-changing displays. Read More
Science Comics Workshop 12:00 PM Discovery Zone: Kendall/MIT Open Space Drop in and discover where comics and science collide. Read More
The Future of Beauty is here 12:00 PM Kendall/MIT Open Space: The Festival Zone Technology and Beauty meet in the Facetopo app available for Apple and Android devices. Read More
Making Harmonograms 12:00 PM Kendall/MIT Open Space: The Festival Zone Choose a piece of paper, a pen, give the pendulums a push, and try to guess how the drawing will develop! Blend different kinds of motion to explore the drawing space or simply watch how other drawings develop. Read More
Stellated Polyhedra and Light 06:00 PM Kendall/MIT Open Space: The Festival Zone Four mathematical sculptures assembled from folded hardware cloth demonstrating the moire effect with light. Read More