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Im Rahmen der “IDee Lectures” des Interdisziplinären Dialogforums stellt Katja Schechtner, Visiting Scholar am MIT Media Lab Boston (Changing Cities – Smart Places) den disziplinenübergreifenden Ansatz der Forschungsinstitution vor.

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In a world where radical technology advances are taken for granted, MIT Media Lab researchers design technologies for people to create a better future. Their domain is applying unorthodox research approaches for envisioning the impact of emerging technologies on everyday life technologies that promise to fundamentally transform our most basic notions of human capabilities. Unconstrained by traditional disciplines, designers, engineers, artists, and scientists work atelier-style, conducting more than 350 projects that range from neuro-engineering, to how children learn, to a stackable, electric car for tomorrow’s city.

Lab researchers foster a unique culture of learning by doing and continue to check traditional disciplines at the door by developing technologies that empower people of all ages, from all walks of life, in all societies, to design and invent new possibilities for themselves and their communities.

Future-obsessed product designers, nanotechnologists, data-visualization experts, industry researchers, and pioneers of computer interfaces work side by side to tirelessly invent and reinvent how humans experience, and can be aided by, technology.

Katja Schechtner is a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Media Lab, Changing Places – Smart Cities group in Boston, while at the same time heading an interdisciplinary applied research group about Dynamic Transportation Systems at AIT in Vienna, where her major interest lies in developing technologies to collect, analyze, simulate and optimize urban transportation flows for the cities of the future. She has a background in architecture, urban studies and technology assessment. She travelled heavily during most of her life, including research visits, lectures and projects at Columbia University and MIT, USA, Institut Nationale d’Architecture, France, the English Heritage Council, GB and Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal and worked for three years with two consulting companies (Fukuyama Consultants Ltd., BCG) on urban technology projects in Japan, Ireland and the Netherlands.

Vortrag: Interdisciplinarity as Identity – the MIT Media Lab’s research approach 2011-01-26 18:00:00 2011-01-26 20:00:00

[ Mittwoch, 26. Januar 2011; 18:00 bis 20:00. ] Im Rahmen der “IDee Lectures” des Interdisziplinären Dialogforums stellt Katja Schechtner, Visiting Scholar am MIT Media Lab Boston (Changing Cities – Smart Places) den disziplinenübergreifenden Ansatz der Forschungsinstitution vor.

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In a world where radical technology advances are taken for granted, MIT Media Lab researchers design technologies for people to create a better future. [...]

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