Location:
Samberg Conference Center
Dining Room 6 (6th Floor), MIT Chang Building (E52)
50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
The event is open to the public.
Please join the MIT Climate Nucleus and the Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI) for an evening of celebrating and exploring environmental and climate justice work at MIT.
The event will start by highlighting the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research's (CEEPR) Roosevelt Project and the ESI's newly launched Climate Justice Program. An interactive discussion session with the audience will follow brief opening remarks from the program leaders.
Next, we will offer a special guest lecture and conversation, Learning Climate Justice through Indigenous Ancestral Knowledges, Ecological Design, and Virtual Reality Storytelling. Jay Julius, former Lummi tribal chairman and President of Se'Si'Le will be joined by virtual reality entrepreneur John Vechey and ESI Director John Fernandez. The three speakers will share a first of its kind vision for illuminating traditional tribal ways of knowing through emerging virtual reality technologies and cutting edge approaches to ecological, architectural design.
We will conclude with a reception for all guests. Small bites and refreshments will be available.
The event is the first of many under the Climate Nucleus’s Independent Activities Period (IAP) grant funding series, “The Imperative of Justice.” The MIT Climate Nucleus is the faculty-led, Institute-wide committee established under Fast Forward: MIT’s Climate Action Plan for the Decade to manage the plan’s implementation. One priority theme of the Fast Forward plan is “the imperative of justice.”