Tag Archives: Development

PRACTISE FABRICATION // LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURES 1:1 // day 4 to 6

Practise Fabrication // Lightweight Structures 1:1 Seminar, development continues….

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La experiencia HTC Barcelona Design visita IaaC

Today IaaC had the pleasure of hosting a group of journalists as part of HTC’s Barcelona Design Experience. The group, including journalists from the UK, Germany, Russia and Spain, toured IaaC together with MAA Director Areti Markopoulou and Alexandre Dubor (Research and Development). The main interest of the tour regarded additive manufacturing. The journalists were [...]

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Nicholas Negroponte Lecture

In his lecture entitled ‘Ending Poverty in 10 Years’, Mr. Negroponte talked about how technology can help developing countries fight against poverty by teaching kids means to educate themselves.  ”If you can learn to read, you can read to learn”.

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Nicholas Negroponte visits IaaC

Before giving his lecture today, Nicholas Negroponte visited IaaC. During the tour around the Institute’s facilities, Mr. Negroponte had the opportunity to watch the student’s projects and talk with them about their work.

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IaaC Lecture Series: Nicholas Negroponte

Nicholas Negroponte is the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). In 1967, Negroponte founded MIT’s Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank which studied new approaches to human-computer interaction. In 1985, he created the [...]

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