Design Science Symposium 2016 | STEAM Intelligence
Co-organized by RISD's Nature Lab and the Synergetics Collaborative, the Design Science Symposium is an interactive meeting of makers, thinkers, practitioners, and educators.
The fifth biennial focused on STEAM Intelligence, which stands for multidisciplinary thinking that relies on actively integrating and applying Science, Technology, Engineering, Art+Design, and Math. Themes for the 2016 Symposium included whole systems thinking, bio design, and biomimicry.
This 3-day event brought together over 220 registrants from the US, Israel, France, Mexico, and Poland, among others. The program featured keynote and plenary speakers, hands-on making workshops, share and tell presentations, an art exhibition of Dennis Dreher's work curated by RISD Senior Critic in Industrial Design Amy Leitdke, as well as The Edna Lawrence Nature Lab, and The Arthur Loeb Design Science Teaching Collection.
Keynote Speakers included green building strategist Bill Browning, MS; artist Rebecca Kamen, MFA (RISD MFA ‘78, Sculpture); architect - morphologist Haresh Lalvani, PhD; and green chemist John Warner, PhD.
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| Saturday, April 16th | ||
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Design Science 5 | STEAM Intelligence, Schedule Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab, Rhode Island School of Design 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Schedule of events. |
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| 8:30 AM |
Design Science 5 | STEAM Intelligence, Day 1 Introduction Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab, Rhode Island School of Design Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM |
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| 8:45 AM |
Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab, Rhode Island School of Design Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM Bill Browning is one of the green building and real estate industry’s foremost thinkers and strategists. In 2006, Bill co-founded Terrapin Bright Green. |
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| 9:30 AM |
Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab, Rhode Island School of Design Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM Rebecca Kamen’s work explores the nexus of art and science informed by wide-ranging research into cosmology, history, philosophy, and various scientific fields. |
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| 10:30 AM |
Design Science 5 | STEAM Intelligence, Keynote 3: X-STRUCTURES Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab, Rhode Island School of Design Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM Haresh Lalvani, Ph.D., sculptor, architect, morphologist, visual mathematician, inventor, and a professor at Pratt Institute, has been working for over 30 years to “decode the morphological genome” to identify the principles underlying form. |
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| Sunday, April 17th | ||
| 8:00 AM |
Design Science 5 | STEAM Intelligence, Day 2 Introduction Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab, Rhode Island School of Design Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM |
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| 8:15 AM |
Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab, Rhode Island School of Design Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903 8:15 AM - 9:30 AM John Warner, Ph.D., is a leader in the field of Green Chemistry and in 2007 founded the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, LLC. |
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| 9:30 AM |
Design Science 5 | STEAM Intelligence, Keynote Roundtable Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab, Rhode Island School of Design Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM A lively and stimulating roundtable discussion with the keynote speakers of the symposium. |
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| 10:15 AM |
Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab, Rhode Island School of Design Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM |
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| 10:45 AM |
Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab, Rhode Island School of Design Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM |
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| 11:15 AM |
Design Science 5 | STEAM Intelligence, Featured Presentation 3: Uniform 3D Space Networks Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab, Rhode Island School of Design Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM |
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