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If you happen to be Cambridge at 6 PM on April 20, please join us for a conversation, celebration, and catered reception to launch Design & Solidarity (Columbia University Press, 2023), a book exploring the power of design, art, and architecture in shaping emergent forms of mutualism, fulfilling their promise of solidarity, and ensuring that these values endure.
Starring:
Marisa Morán Jahn, Artist; Director of Integrated Design at Parsons/The New School
Rafi Segal, Architect; Director, MIT SMArchS Urbanism Program
In Conversation with:
Arturo Escobar, Design Anthropologist; Author, Designs for the Pluriverse
Greg Lindsay, Senior Fellow, MIT Future Urban Collectives
Mercedes Bidart, Entrepreneur; Co-Founder, Quipu
Rashin Fahandej, Multimedia Artist, Filmmaker
Moderated by:
Ana Miljacki, Critic, Curator, Director, MIT Architecture and Urbanism Group
With remarks from:
Sarah Wolozin, Director of MIT OpenDocLab
Jules Sievert, Artistic Director, NuLawLab, Northeastern University
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Greg Lindsay is a generalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a 2022-2023 urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute, where he leads The Metaverse Metropolis — a new initiative exploring the implications of augmented reality at urban scale. He is also a senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, a senior advisor to Climate Alpha, and a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Strategy Initiative.
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