Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, NYC map
Cost: Free and open to the public

Topic: Verdant Power Kinetic Hydropower System (KHPS)

About the speaker:

Dean Corren, leads Verdant Power’s technology development efforts, having been the original designer of the Kinetic Hydropower System (KHPS) during his time as a Research Scientist at New York University. Before Verdant Power, he consulted on diverse energy and technology projects, as well as researching a wide range of energy technologies at NYU. He also chaired the Burlington Electric Commission, which governs Vermont’s largest public utility, and served four terms in the Vermont House of Representatives. He holds an MS in Energy Science from New York University and a BA, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Middlebury College.

About the respondents:

Tim White – has extensive experience in the building trades in project management, design and construction and runs eDesign Dynamics. His particular interest involves the application of Low Impact Development technologies in both new design and retrofits in the built environment. His consulting experience has ranged from cost benefit analysis in potential remediation strategies, to stormwater re-use scenarios in urban application. Mr. White holds a M.S. in Natural Resource Planning from the University of Vermont, with a focus on Ecological Design and phosphorus dynamics, where he studied under Dr. John Todd. He designed the on-line Stormwater Management Toolbox for the USEPA “Re-designing the American Neighborhood” grant at UVM.

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Location: Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, NYC map
Cost: Free and open to the public

Topic: the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project

About the speaker:

Mary Lou Jepson, CEO and CTO at Pixel Qi, Former CTO, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)

About the respondents:

Allan Chochinov – Associate Professor at the Pratt Institute, Partner at Core77, Strategist for Coroflot.com and DesignDirectory.com

Idit Caperton – President & Founder, World Wide Workshop, and CEO & Founder, MaMaMedia

Gabriella Coleman – Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development

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Location: NYU Auditorium, 78 Stuyvesant Place, NYC, 876.897.8900
Cost: Free and open to the public

Topic: Interrogating the spatial for the social and political

About the speaker:

Laura Kurgan – teaches architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she is Director of Visual Studies and the Director of the Spatial Information Design Lab (SIDL)

About the respondents:

Stephen Zacks – is an editor at Metropolis Magazine and a graduate of Liberal Studies at the New School’s Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. He has reported on architecture, design, and urbanism in Abuja, Ramallah, Beirut, Panama City, Vilnius, Bucharest, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Pristina, Nicosia, and Dubai, as well as Baltimore, Omaha, Oklahoma City, Nashville, Denver, and Kansas City.

  

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