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schema Managing a lab as a community:
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Luca Simeone
Malmö University & metaLAB (at) Harvard
January 2014
My contribution to the class’ Pinterest
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MIT Media Lab
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Founded in 1985 by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte and
former MIT President Jerome Wiesner
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companies and as he sits on the board of Creative Commons, Mozilla
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Foundation
and The Knight Foundation. In line with his professional
trajectory,
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“Today a couple of kids using open-source software, a generic PC and
the internet can create a Google, a Yahoo! and a Facebook in their dorm
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room, and plug it in and it's working even before they've raised money.
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takes all the innovation from the centre and pushes it to the edges
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into the little labs inside the Media Lab; inside dorm rooms; even inside
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disrupting,
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Creative Commons, Mozilla, Witness, Global Voices - which are all
about
creating movements. To me there's a science to community
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building. If you extend the Media Lab as a network, and bring in different
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types
of partners and
nonprofits, and create more diversity, the lab itself
could become
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“People think of the lab as a lot of smart people in a really cool-looking
building making really cool gadgets. But I want it to have a much
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stronger normative political message - a lot of the kids at the Media Lab
today
don't want to make more money, don't want to become immortal,
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they just want to figure out how to fix this unhealthy system we have.
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There
are lots of kids
who are not happy with this massive
consumerism,
unsustainable growth, but who have really smart
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science and– technology
values. That's a type of person we can draw into
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what I think will become a movement."
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“We aim to capture serendipity. You don't get lucky if you plan
everything -- and you don't get serendipity unless you have peripheral
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vision and creativity.
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-- that five other people agree that what you're doing is interesting. Here,
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can do it. Our funding model allows our students to do
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anything they
want without
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we don't expect every experiment to succeed -- in fact, a lot are failures.
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But that's great -- failure is another word for discovery."
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“We want to take the DNA [of the lab], the secret sauce, and drop it into
communities, into companies, into governments […] It's my mission, our
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mission, to spread that DNA. You can't actually tell people to think for
themselves,
schemaor be creative. You have to work with them and have them
learn it themselves."
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m: [email protected]
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