SATURDAY – OCT 8 – Cambridge Science Festival

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SATURDAY - OCT 8

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Unwanted Project: Creative Upcycling for Fashion and More

12:30 PM

MIT Museum: The Heide Education Suite

How might we reimagine the material world with hands-on creation and upcycling the creative process? Through this workshop, participants will experience designing and creating functional objects including light, bags and accessories with PVC pipe, which is a normal urban disposal and construction material.

Ada and the Engine @ Central Square Theater

08:00 PM

Central Square Theater

Ada and the Engine is The Brit d’Arbeloff Women in Science Production. A Catalyst Collaborative@MIT Production.

Light Painting Photo Booth

12:00 PM

Kendall/MIT Open Space: The Festival Zone

Part photo-booth part interactive art, the Light Painting Photo Booth allows participants to paint with light and see it happen in realtime, using a variety of light up objects such as fiber optics and smart LEDs. At the end a flash is triggered, illuminating participants in their painting. Jess has fabricated a variety of LED toys to play with in the photo booth, such as a special LED wand programmed to play back bitmap images of fluorescent microscope images and other science themed graphics.

One Sphere

12:00 PM

Kendall/MIT Open Space: The Festival Zone

Explore an immersive 360-degree artwork within a sustainably-built geodesic sphere. One Sphere is a magical glow-in-the-dark installation experience that springs to life using UV lamps, 3D glasses, and imagination! One Sphere inspires visitors to create, collaborate, and care for our planet’s interconnected circle of life.

The Mix: Creative Concepts

03:30 PM

The Runway: Kendall/MIT Open Space

Boston Fashion Week and Cambridge Science Festival present a group runway collection and talkback

The House of Nahdra — Afrofuturist Fashion

06:00 PM

The Runway: Kendall/MIT Open Space

The future of fashion lies at the intersections of culture+science and tradition+technology. Experience how The House of Nahdra explores those realms on the runway. The powerful aesthetic of this collection addresses a fun, exciting, and meaningful vision for how we choose to express ourselves.

Peers + Pros Project — Science Surfaces

02:00 PM

The Runway: Kendall/MIT Open Space

Science Surfaces is a capsule collection of body coverings and accessories that serve as canvases for digital prints of ideas inspired by award-winning biomedical images produced by life science research labs at MIT.

Ganit Goldstein — A Design Language

05:00 PM

The Runway: Kendall/MIT Open Space

Ganit Goldstein presents a selection of one-of-a-kind garments that highlight her focus on the intersection between art and technology in fashion. Her work is the result of a hybrid approach that involves both analog and digital processes.

Forecasting — A NuVu Fashion Presentation

04:30 PM

The Runway: Kendall/MIT Open Space

Forecasting imagines a future where technology is an extension of nature, both celebrating the beauty of natural cycles and acknowledging how these patterns are being disrupted by human activity.

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Event Category

SATURDAY - OCT 8

All events

Unwanted Project: Creative Upcycling for Fashion and More

Ada and the Engine @ Central Square Theater

Light Painting Photo Booth

One Sphere

The Mix: Creative Concepts

The House of Nahdra — Afrofuturist Fashion

Peers + Pros Project — Science Surfaces

Ganit Goldstein — A Design Language

Forecasting — A NuVu Fashion Presentation

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