They have a maker
space in a church, a place where the kids can
learn how to build a computer, a bike shop where they can learn how
to do repairs. The kid who runs this place, Jeff
Sturges, is awesome.We're sending a bunch of Media Lab people
to Detroit to work with local innovators already doing stuff on the
ground."
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in title, tags, annotations or urlOpen university: Joi Ito plans a radical reinvention of MIT's Media Lab (Wired UK) - 0 views
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in which any bright talent anywhere, academically qualified or not, can be part of the world's leading "antidisciplinary" research lab. "Opening up the lab is more about expanding our reach and creating our network," explains Ito, appointed director in April 2011.
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as Ito sees it, the formal channels of academia today inhibit progress. "In the old days, being relevant was writing academic papers. Today, if people can't find you on the internet, if they're not talking about you in Rwanda, you're irrelevant. That's the worst thing in the world for any researcher. The people inventing things might be in Kenya, and they go to the internet and search. Funders do the same thing. The old, traditional academic channel is not a good channel for attracting attention, funding, people, or preventing other people from competing with you.
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