Juan Enriquez
dal 4/1/2012 al 4/1/2012
Segnalato da
4/1/2012
Juan Enriquez
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Designing with Life Code, the inaugural Shared Voices: The RISD Presidential Speaker Series
Designing with Life Code, the inaugural Shared Voices: The RISD Presidential Speaker Series, kicking off with special guest Juan Enriquez An experienced business leader, author and academic, Juan Enriquez is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on the economic and political impacts of life sciences. He is a managing director of Excel Venture Management, a venture capital firm that invests in companies applying transformative life science technologies to solve problems in health care and beyond. At RISD Enriquez will speak about the possibilities and challenges involved in the latest frontier in design - Designing with Life Code. Just as the language of digital code fundamentally changed how we make, use and share drawings, paintings, sculpture, music, photos, video and film, another vast new programming language - that of life - is becoming increasingly available and widespread. Now that we can read, copy and re-code life, how will this fundamentally change the way we think of and execute design? "Shared Voices: The RISD Presidential Speaker Series" offers a forum for welcoming some of the most expansive thinkers of our times to campus. Each speaker is a master of his or her domain but is also ready to transcend it, sharing the RISD community's own belief in the fruitful exchange of ideas that happens when artists, designers, activists, scientists and other scholars really talk and listen to each other. Invited by the president with input from the faculty, each speaker in the series will engage with students and share perspectives with the entire community through an open conversation hosted by faculty members. On February 2: Lisa Randall, a theoretical physicist focused on string theory, co-hosted by Profs. Peter Yeadon and Dan Cavicchi. On March 14: Kevin Kelley, former executive editor of Wired and publisher of the Whole Earth Review, co-hosted by Profs. Eva Sutton and Brian Goldberg. Admission is free and open to the public.