A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
This talk will describe ways that we blend technology and craft in our research group at the MIT Media Lab. We'll explain and demonstrate how electronics and computation can be combined with paper, paint, fabric, and wood. We'll then discuss how working with technology as a craft material can change technology, craft, design, and art communities in powerful and surprising ways.
Leah Buechley is an Assistant Professor at the MIT Media Lab where she directs the High-Low Tech research group. The High-Low Tech group explores the integration of high and low technology from cultural, material, and practical perspectives with the goal of engaging diverse groups of people in developing their own technologies. Leah received PhD and MS degrees in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a BA in physics from Skidmore College.
Hannah Perner-Wilson is a graduate student in the High-Low Tech research group at the MIT Media Lab. Her work explores material properties for their use in creating handmade human-computer interfaces. Focusing on the documentation and development of available and affordable technology that allows more of us to DIY, modify and fix the technology that surrounds us. Since 2006 she has collaborated with Mika Satomi, forming the collective KOBAKANT. In 2009, as research fellows at the Distance Lab in Scotland, KOBAKANT published an online database for their DIY wearable technology titled HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT. Hannah holds a Bachelor degree in Industrial Design from the Art University of Linz, Austria.
