Leo Burd, from Microsoft, is newly graduated from the MIT Media Lab. Before entering MIT, he ran a community computer center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A critical question for him was how a small room with twenty computers could ever impact one of the largest cities in the world with thousands of slums. He carried this interest of community empowerment into action-based research for his thesis work. This afternoon, he shared his projects with us. (more…)
Archive for the ‘Third Place’ Category
Community Engagement
October 27, 2007Designing for “Third Culture”?
April 20, 2007Tabitha Hart and Bob Mason
Tabitha’s interest is in intercultural communication: how people from different cultures communicate. She starts by reporting on her fieldwork: interviewing baristas in Starbucks, Germany.
The discussion topic is about the notion: “Third Culture” (a notion reminiscent of “Third Place”). (more…)
