Media Tech Tonic #18: Enchanted Furniture, David Rose, Tuesday, October 25, 2011

DMI welcomes David Rose for the first Media Tech Tonic lecture of the new academic year, Enchanted Furniture.

Furniture is the infrastructure for human activity, the physical things that literally support us and our social interactions. Everyday we sit down at the breakfast table, settle into our desk chairs, open cabinets and drawers, and fall into bed. How can digital technology augment these everyday rituals in subtle, natural and delightful ways? We aim to make couches more relaxing, tables more conversational, desks more productive, lamps more enlightening, and beds more restful. Collaborating with furniture companies we are designing and prototyping a line of Enchanted Furniture.

David Rose is an award-winning entrepreneur and instructor at the MIT Media Laboratory. He specializes in novel interfaces which make the physical environment an interface to digital information. David founded and is CEO at Vitality, a company that reinvented medication packaging. He founded Ambient Devices, which pioneered glanceable technology: embedding internet information in everyday objects like lamps, mirrors, umbrellas. His work has been featured at the MoMA, in The New York Times, and parodied on the Colbert Report.

Media Tech Tonic # 18: Enchanted Furniture with David Rose
Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Time: 6:30 - 8-30 p.m.
Location: MassArt, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Room: Tower Building, Room 312

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Parking: Parking is no longer available in the Ward Street lot. We suggest on-street parking if you can find it. Otherwise, there is paid parking available at the Museum of Fine Arts parking garage (expensive). If you’re driving, take a close look at a Google Map of the area, things are tricky the first time you drive around this area.