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Apr 05: Harvard & MIT
The
new Stata building at MIT is reminiscent of Gehry's other
recent work, particularly Bilbao's Guggenheim. It also has
the wild techno-organic quality of Edinburgh's
Holyrood, designed by the late Enric Miralles. The first
day I visited the campus was so beautiful that the reflection
on the panels was dazzling. I was told that this building
was very controversial, partly due to its inconsistent design
with the rest of the very functional campus of MIT.
All
images on this page link to the larger original.
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Harvard University
I
didn't spend much time looking around the university,
which seems to consist of a strange mix of ancient grandeur
and tourist fiesta. However, when you get into the campus,
the atmosphere is much more calm and reflective. Even
if you dont read, it feels like you should go to find
a library.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) I
spent a few hours on a couple of different days walking
around the campus. I was lucky enough to have a friend to
give me a guided tour, who is working in a elite sport technology
centre, on product design and development.
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From BALCO to Bioethics, Harvard Law School The
symposium was organised by Dan Vorhaus in the Ethics, Law
and Biotechnology Society and was hosted by the Harvard Law
School and a range of other sponsors. The panel consisted
of myself, Professor Dan Brock, Dr Olivier Rabin (WADA), and
was chaired by Dr Gil Siegal. There could not have been a
better venue for this debate, since there is so much work
to be done on the legal dimensions of gene doping. For more
details about this meeting, visit the bioethics
and sport blog.
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Cambridge & Boston, MA Staying in between
MIT and Harvard places you a little outside of Boston. The
subway is very quick, but it helps to stay at a location near
to one of the stations. I spent a day looking around Boston,
the usual hot spots. The Institute for Contemporary Art around
Back Bay is worth a visit. A small space, but some good work.
If you stay in Cambridge, it is worthwhile residing around
Harvard Square, which is a very active place with lots of
nice bars. Unfortunately, it is not cheap!
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art&design // bioethics // china // cyberculture // ethics // law // medicine // olympics // outer space // politics // public engagement with science // science // sport // technology
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Feb, 2008
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Beijing, China c (5 Aug, 2008)
Chair and Speaker for panel symposium on Emergent Journalistic Cultures at the Olympics [outline] |
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Olympia, Greece i (20 July, 2008)
Supervising Professor, International Olympic Acadmy 16th Postgraduate Seminar [Lecture Outlines]. |
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Leeds, UK c (16 July, 2008)
Ambush Media: Journalistic Freedom & Media Politics at the Beijing Olympics, Olympic Politics and Protest, Leeds Metropolitan University [abstract]. |
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London, UK ia (4 July, 2008)
Research Cluster on Innovative Media for a Digital Economy: Health Industries Workshop, British Medical Association House. |
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Liverpool, UK i (July, 2008)
Keynote, Body & Economy, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, FACT. |
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Chicago , USA ia (Jun, 2008)
2016 Olympic Bid conference, the contribution of the arts. |
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San Francisco , USA i (Jun, 2008)
Bioethics and Doping colloquium, St Mary's College. |
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London, UK c (Jun, 2008)
with Ana Adi, Framing Beijing's Olympic Bid: Human Rights Advocacy Groups and Online Mainstream International Media, Changes and Challenges: China’s Media, University of Westminster, London, [abstract] |
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Oxford, UK i (May, 2008)
Guest Seminar, St James Martin Institute for the 21st Century, Programme on Biomedical Ethics and Future of Humanity Institute |
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