Wednesday, April 2
Media Lab 6th Floor (E14-648)
4:15pm
Kickoff: Dean Hashim Sarkis, MIT School of Architecture and Planning
4:30–5:30pm
Environment in Practice
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.
5:30–6:30pm
Introducing the MIT-LUMA Lab: Welcoming Remarks from MIT, SA+P, and LUMA Foundation Leadership
6:30–7:30pm
Toast and Celebration
Thursday, April 3
ACT Cube (E15-001)
10:15am
Welcome from Dean Hashim Sarkis and Maja Hoffmann, Founder and Executive President, the LUMA Foundation
10:45–11:45am
Research for Climate Action
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, Product Designer, Studio Guberan.
12–12:30pm
Artist Talk: Nida Sinnokrot, Associate Professor in Art, Culture, Technology at MIT
12:30–1:30pm
LUNCH BREAK (boxed lunches for all participants)
1:45–2:45pm
Design Innovation for Resilient Futures
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; Lucas Hoffmann; Katheen D. Kennedy, Senior Director, Horizon, MIT Sloan School of Management.
3–3:30pm
Verena Paravel COSMOFONIA Work-in-Progress Screening and Talk
3:45–4:45pm
Realizing Artistic Visions
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.
