Forbidden Research

[Maria Chavez]

I saw this and wanted to share a new innitative out of MIT's Media
Lab, Forbidden Research.

"Rewarding Disobedience - By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

Last March, the day after I participated in a Free Software Foundation
protest, I wrote a blog post on disobedience. It was triggered by a
question following a panel on the Digital Rights Movement, but
actually is something I’ve thought about quite a bit. Over the past
months, as it has become increasingly difficult to locate the world’s
moral center, disobedience has once again come to the forefront of my
thinking: How can we most effectively harness responsible, ethical
disobedience aimed at challenging the norms, rules, or laws that
sustain society’s injustices?

Today, at the Media Lab’s Forbidden Research symposium, we announced
the creation of a $250,000 MIT Media Lab Disobedience award."

The full article:
https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/rewarding-disobedience-ae194d9f0785#.1m64rdpfe

The event about this today: http://www.media.mit.edu/events/forbidden/agenda

The full video of all 8 hours of the event:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxiT5Q6WZaU

Interesting stuff to me.

Maria