SATURDAY – OCT 8 – Cambridge Science Festival

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SATURDAY - OCT 8

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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.

Design, Textiles & Technology across MIT

04:00 PM

MIT Museum: The Lee Family Exchange

Skylar Tibbits and Yuly Fuentes discuss the latest developments in fashion design, textiles and technology across MIT.

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.

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.

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.

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

05:00 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.