2013 marked the Centennial of the Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, Berkeley (http://ced.berkeley.edu/academics/landscape-architecture-environmental-planning/about-us/the-next-100-years). The Department took the opportunity to not only look back on the last 100 years but also to look towards its future with a series of events. One such event was the Adaptive Metropolis conference from September 27-29, 2013 (http://laep.ced.berkeley.edu/adaptivemetropolis/site/the-event/speakers/). The Symposium examined at the power of emergent collaborative networks to reaffirm the ""right to the city."" They employ a series of disparate tactics, compensating for the shortage of economic resources with a large dose of creativity. They favor short-term small-scale interventions that involve experimentation, formative assessment, and iteration, crowdsourcing ideas and funding, opensourcing processes and results, and directly engaging the community throughout implementation. While these practices have already largely garnered the attention of the web and the press, the symposium allowed for a substantive assessment of their real impact on the built environment and their potential for the next era of urban development.
Keynote Speech:
Alfredo Brillembourg
Chair of Architecture & Urban Design, Swiss Institute of Technology; Founding Partner of Urban-Think Tank
In 1993, Alfredo Brillembourg founded the Caracas, Venezuela--based Urban Think Tank, an independent nonprofit group focused on the research and practice of architecture. Alfredo, has lectured on architecture at GSD, AEDES in Berlin, UCV in Caracas, UMSA in Miami, Berlage in Rotterdam, FAU in Sao Paulo, and UCLA in Los Angeles. Since May 2010, he has held the chair for Architecture and Urban Design at the Swiss Institute of Technology (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, ETH) Zürich in Switzerland.
"How the War on Terror Turned into A War on American Values"
Jane Mayer, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes New Yorker writer Jane Mayer for a discussion of her new book, The Dark Side. She explains how, under the direction of Vice President Cheney and his Assistant David Addington,the Bush administration, contrary to American history and tradition, implemented a policy of torture and rendition in violation of U.S. and international law. She describes the resistence within the government and the military to these actions. Mayer also offers a compelling account of what happened to detainees under the Cheney/Addington regime. She also analyzes the long term consequences for the fight against terror and for U.S. moral leadership in the world.
Recorded August 8, 2008
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/
Cognitive Science C102, 001 - Fall 2014
Scientific Approaches to Consciousness - John F. Kihlstrom
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eCHEM 1A: Online General Chemistry
College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/echem1a
Curriculum and ChemQuizzes developed by Dr. Mark Kubinec and Professor Alexander Pines
Chemical Demonstrations by Lonnie Martin
Video Production by Jon Schainker and Scott Vento
Developed with the support of The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Statistics 131A, 001 - Spring 2015
Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Life Scientists - Fletcher H Ibser
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of the laser, Nobel Laureate Charles Townes, Professor Roger Falcone, and Professor Bob Byer will be discussing the past, present and future of lasers.
In addition, there is a hands-on exhibit of lasers at the Lawrence Hall of Science from January, 23 to January 25.
For addition information on LaserFest, please see their website at http://laserfest.org/.