Events Archive | DIY
The Museum annually hosts dozens of special events featuring everything from astronauts to artists, robots to raptors. See who has joined us over the years for these special offerings; many listings include audio, video, and reference materials.
- Food, Glorious Food: Our Palate vs. Our Planet? (Lecture)
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Celebrity foodies Joanne Chang and Corby Kummer, along with national food sustainability expert Helene York, explore the relationship between our love affair with food and our desire to protect the planet. Join us for a conversation about how we can radically redesign what we eat to help the Earth without ... (details).
With: Joanne Chang, pastry chef and owner, Flour Bakery and Café; chef and owner, Myers+Chang; Corby Kummer, senior editor, The Atlantic Monthly; host, The Atlantic Food Channel; author, The Pleasures of Slow Food; Helene York, director, Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series DIY.
May 07, 2010
- Planting the Seeds (Lecture)
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If you dig farm-fresh food but don't know how to grow it, Jessie Banhazl of Green City Growers demonstrates how to get your own backyard farm garden started. Locally grown food tastes better and is healthier than the chemically treated produce available in supermarkets.
What can you do with the "fruits" ... (details).
With: Jessie Banhazl, managing director and owner, Green City Growers ; Steven Brand, executive chef, UpStairs on the Square.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series DIY.
April 28, 2010
- How to Make (Almost) Anything (Lecture)
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Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things. That's the idea behind Fab Labs, an idea hatched by star physicist and DIY enthusiast Neil Gershenfeld, who teaches a wildly popular course at MIT called How To Make (almost) Anything.
Fab Labs provide ... (details).
With: Neil Gershenfeld, director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series DIY.
March 10, 2010
- A Hen in the Yard (Lecture)
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Love the idea of having your own Rhode Island Red that produces fresh eggs every morning, your own quirky chickens to name, or a chartreuse chicken house in the yard? The backyard chicken movement is raging across America as more people learn where our food comes from and take matters into their own hands ... (details).
With: Susan Orlean, staff writer, The New Yorker; author, The Orchid Thief.
This presentation is part of the ongoing series DIY.
March 03, 2010
