The Inaugural Convening of the MIT-LUMA Lab

Schedule

Wed, 02 Apr, 2025 at 04:00 pm to Thu, 03 Apr, 2025 at 05:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

DAY 1: MIT Media Lab (E14-648), DAY 2: MIT ACT Cube (E15-001) | Cambridge, MA

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About this Event

Global Commons and New Ecologies: The Inaugural Convening of the MIT-LUMA Lab

A landmark collaboration between the MIT School of Architecture and Planning and the LUMA Foundation, the MIT-LUMA Lab will champion research, creative practice, and pedagogy that address regional and global climate challenges. The lab will operate at the nexus of climate science, technology, art, ecology, and design.

The MIT-LUMA Lab’s inaugural convening, Global Commons and New Ecologies, will feature public presentations, film screenings, and celebrations. Speakers from MIT, LUMA, and beyond will elaborate on the Lab’s mission to design for climate resilience and forge new paths for collaboration through research, practice, and innovation.


DAY 1 | Location: E14-648

🕑: 04:15 PM - 04:30 PM
Kickoff: Dean Hashim Sarkis, MIT School of Architecture and Planning
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Environment in Practice

Info: Caroline A. Jones, Professor in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art program at MIT; Caroline Murphy, Clarence H. Blackall Career Development Assistant Professor in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art program at MIT; Raphaël Billé, Program Director, Tour Du Valat; Martin Guinard, Curator, LUMA Arles; Salma Mochtari, Associate Researcher, LUMA Arles; Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Artistic Director, LUMA Arles.


🕑: 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Introducing the MIT-LUMA Lab: Welcoming Remarks from MIT, SA+P, and LUMA Found
🕑: 06:30 PM - 07:30 PM
Toast and Celebration
DAY 2 | Location: E15-001

🕑: 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Welcome

Info: Welcome from Dean Hashim Sarkis and Maja Hoffmann, Founder and Executive President, the LUMA Foundation


Research for Climate Action

Info: Skylar Tibbits, Co-Director, Self-Assembly Lab, and Associate Professor of Design Research at MIT; Raphaël Billé, Program Director, Tour Du Valat; Jan Boelen, Senior Design Consultant, Atelier LUMA; Axelle Gisserot, Textile Designer, Atelier LUMA; Christophe Guberan, collaborator, MIT Self-Assembly Lab.


🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Artist Talk: Nida Sinnokrot, Associate Professor in ACT at MIT
🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch Break

Info: (boxed lunches for all participants)


🕑: 01:45 PM - 02:45 PM
Design Innovation for Resilient Futures

Info: Svafa Grönfeldt, Faculty Director, MITdesignX, and Professor of the Practice, MIT SA+P; Marc-Antoine Baïssas, Chief Financial and Impact Officer, LUMA Arles; Marcelo Coelho, Lecturer, Department of Architecture, and Director, Design Intelligence Lab at MIT; Katheen D. Kennedy, Senior Director, Horizon, MIT Sloan School of Management.”


🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Verena Paravel COSMOFONIA Work-in-Progress Screening and Talk
🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Coffee Break
🕑: 04:15 PM - 05:15 PM
Realizing Artistic Visions

Info: Gediminas Urbonas, Associate Professor, Art, Culture, Technology, MIT; Victoria Hindley, Senior Acquisitions Editor, Art, Architecture, and Design, MIT Press; Flora Katz, Curator, LUMA Arles; Manuela Lucà-Dazio, Executive Director, The Pritzker Architecture Prize, honorary professor, Tongji University, and former Executive Director, Department of Visual Arts and Architecture, La Biennale di Venezia; Selby Nimrod, inaugural Director of Exhibitions and Commons, MIT SA+P; Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Artistic Director, LUMA Arles.


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DAY 1: MIT Media Lab (E14-648), DAY 2: MIT ACT Cube (E15-001), 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, United States

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