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Workshop #2: Intellectual Commons event series

This fall, SA+P Dean Hashim Sarkis and Architecture's Mark Jarzombek organized a series of talks and workshops under the theme Intellectual Commons. The series launched on October 2 with a keynote lecture from Saskia Sassen titled, Where and how is the Global constituted? The second installment in the series, Academia and Agency in the Era of Global Change, a workshop with SA+P faculty Rania Ghosn, Jason Jackson, Gabriella Carolini, and Arindam Dutta, moderated by Saskia Sassen and Mark Jarzombek was held on October 9. The second and final workshop on November 15 with SA+P faculty Ethan Zuckerman, Nasser Rabbat, Brent Ryan, and Janelle Knox-Hayes, moderated by Mark Jarzombek and Hashim Sarkis rounded out the conversation.

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Intellectual Commons At a time when digital communications are growing, the need for direct interaction is all the more vital. At a time when MIT is building bridges across schools and disciplines, we can no longer operate primarily at the scale of micro-units. This reflects neither the interests of the new generation nor the nature of the problems that the world is leaving at our doorstep. I invite you to come up with ideas that reflect the values that we hold in common.

The vitality of the School—a community invested in shaping better commons for the world, from the environment to cities to public spaces and public art—is the extent in which we can exercise our collective imaginary.

—Hashim Sarkis