October 17th 2008 at 8pm

Landscape remixers Rebar come to Materials & Applications to discuss their work and rock a special event for us all. Rebar are best known for creating the open-source "holiday" ParkingDay. M&A participated in ParkingDay in 2007 which many of you came to help build and to hang out at, but to us one of their most powerful pieces is there mapping of POPOS. The idea of mapping privately owned pulic opened spaces is a big component of what we see as obvious but underappreciated keys to developing better communities in the future. That and other topics will be discussed in the kickoff to our fall lecture series "Beyond Appearances." We are still finalizing the details but more info can be found at our web site.

Our sixth lecture series, Beyond Appearances, will address the growing feeling in our society that we need to pay closer attention to the events that are shaping these times. Everything designed, built, created, used and disused requires an infrastructure and a plan to get it from concept to reality. Understanding the origin and trajectories of these systems is key to understanding and coping with our future. A deeper understanding of what others are doing, both regularly and radically, is a step closer to making the world a better place. These lectures will take place semi-regularly, but it is best to keep an eye out as we have not really discovered if there will be a rhythm to them.

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