Here we present ideas for additional Transduction topics, speakers and resources for further exploration. Please click on the titles below for more fascinating information.
Artificial Intelligent Agents: Using History to Make Smart Eco-Friendly Buildings by Clarisse Abalos
Elon Musk: Merging the Technical and Interpersonal for a Sustainable Tomorrow by Joseph Woodlief
Food and Community by Meaghan Taylor
Hardware Hacking: Using Old Electronics to Make Music by Maxwell Tfirn
History of Slavery at the University of Virginia by Laura Reynolds
Jared Diamond: Reflection of the Past and Lessons from “Other” Societies by Jessica Rojsuontikul
Modern Gastronomy, Homaro Cantu, Moto Restaurant by Andrew Jones
Neurological Basis for Architectural Design by William Park
Plant Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life and Minimal Cognition in Plants by Gwendolyn McGinn
Reading a City: How Histories of Maps Tell Us the Socioeconomic, Architectural, Cultural, and Racial Stories of a City in its Present by Madison Jaehee Lee
Rotunda Imagination: The Hopeful Return to Jefferson’s Laboratory by McCutcheon Morecock
Telemedicine: A Tool to Close Socioeconomic Gaps and Meet the Demands of Patients through Online Communication and Portable Devices by SunHye Park
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Nicholas Lee
The Search for Agritopia: A Lifestyle Journey to Enhance Human Wellness and Reestablish Connectedness to the Environment by Janet Rafner
http://www.wimp.com/smartphonemicroscope/
simple materials, simple tools, incredible results from ‘ordinary’ technology
Great Article that relates aspects of Game Theory to Twitch Plays Pokemon. http://minimaxir.com/2014/02/glory-to-the-helix/
Live Stream:
http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon
Eshel Ben-Jacob, an artist from Tel- Aviv maps millions of adaptive bacterial migration paths in petri dishes
http://tamar.tau.ac.il/~eshel/gallery.html
Music by the “XX”
http://www.nowness.com/day/2014/4/10/3800/jamie-xx-sleep-sound
Here, dance is being transduced to be auditorily stimulating to people who are deaf by observing visual movements from people who are listening to music. It’s a really interesting video and will only take up 7 minutes of your time!