EMW's 

Drink Salon on Tech​ ​​​​​and Ethics

brings togeth​er a community and a supportive space to spark​​ ​challenging discussions on the role of technology in our ​everyday ​lives. Each month, we invite featured ​speakers to ​lead a conversation. ​We encourage salon ​guests to make new connections​ and to critically think about how technology relates to some of the most important questions we ask humanity.  

 

#EMWDrinkSalon

Scroll  down  for  speaker bios &
a schedule for the night! 

Cities & Technology

You're invited to an evening filled with some drinking and thinking with Emily Royall, Andrea Chegut, Julia Litman-Cleper, and more!



Note: This month's Drink Salon will feature community announcements, discussion, and awesome music curated by DJ Lychee.


RSVP is required for entrance. 21+ event. Bring I.D.

Seating is limited to 70 guests.  Suggested donation: $8 or pay what you can at door.

 

We'll have some light snacks and drinks (boozy & non-boozy) for you as well!

Your donations at the door go directly to help cover the use of the space, drinks, and food that make Drink Salon possible!


Featured Presentations

Andrea Chegut

 

"The Role of Built Environments in Transitioning to Sustainable Cities"


Description: The advent and growth of new innovative products in the built environment—data centers, fiber-lit buildings, super-tall skyscrapers, green buildings, micro-units, shared workspace etc.—are having an impact on cities. On the one hand, these new products invite growth, digital connectivity, and sustainability. On the other hand, they warrant careful planning and consideration of their role and placement within cities. This talk is about discovering the current transition in the built environment and how it impacts the cities we live in.


Themes: cities & digital connectivity, transitioning to sustainable cities


Julia Litman-Cleper

shapedthought.com

 "New-Media Environments on Urban Scales" — presentation

 

Description: This talk will present several new-media environments on an urban scale, as hypothetically built into the public infrastructure of cities. We will then think through the ethical, political and psychological implications of "media" as integrated into shared public space. Topics include collective versus individual immersivity, the extension peri-personal space in urban environments, and the effects of visual modification. 


Themes: urbanism, urban infrastructure, new media environments, media ecology, ecology, built-environments, immersivity, collectivity


Community Curator: Emily Royall 

@emily_royall

 

Opening Remarks/ Q & A


Drink Salon Team & Volunteers

Stine An

Co-Director

@gregorspamsa

Friend at EMW, Communications Manager at Bocoup, editor & comedian


Hai Jung Theresa Kim

Emcee & Co-Director

@pixelr8r

Works at a renewables and energy efficiency company; community arts organizer

Ellie Tiglao

Food & Drink Maven

@_dangerbelle

director of programs at EMW; chef and owner at Kulinarya

Kit Cali

Volunteer

Current admin/future grad student; domestic violence hotline volunteer; Florida ex-pat obsessed with cities, 19th century US history, and advice columns

Amanda Zhang

Volunteer

community organizer and writer who thinks a lot about oppression, the economics of things, and femme as a political identity.  

Assistant Director @ EMW

Alyce Currier

DJ Lychee

alyce not alice / uniform gelatinous blob / content strategist at @wistia / casual sociologist / dj lychee / previously editing @earmilk / #virtuality

Featured Presenter & Community Curator Bios


  • Andrea Chegut (presenter)


    Andrea Chegut, PhD is a Research Associate at the MIT Center for Real Estate. She works on innovation in the built environment. Buildings transform and innovate too. Principally, she links economic performance outcomes to the invention and commercial diffusion of innovations in primary real estate developments and secondary markets in the institutional real estate sector. Building products in her research portfolio range from green buildings, business incubator space, micro-apartments, and urban food farms to data centers and the fiber-optic information highway. In this way, she links the economics of innovation to real estate finance and development.

  • Julia Litman-Cleper (presenter)


    Julia is currently studying virtual experience in relation to proprioception and visualization in the Design and Computation Group at MIT. She also creates video, sculpture, and experimental sound.

  • Emily Royall (community curator)


    Former neuroscientist turned city planner, Emily is interested in transforming / re-imagining human relationships to cities in the age of Information. In her graduate work at MIT, Emily has studied digitally-mediated urban development, and its impact on human behavior and urban culture. Her work in the private sector touches on a diversity of urban problems and contexts ranging from informal housing settlements in Indonesia, to repurposing former military bases in Iceland. Emily is passionate about connecting computation to value and transitioning the public from consumers to users of the urban environment. She's currently completing her Masters thesis in City Design & Development at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) at MIT.