Second Nature: The Design of Environmental Sensor Networks

Principal Investigator
Prof. Sheila Kennedy, Architecture; Prof. Joseph Paradiso, Program in Media Arts and Sciences
Fund: Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period: AY2014
Department/Lab/Center: Architecture
Project Website: https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/4/fa13/4.S23/materials.html

MIT Alumni Class Funding is requested to support research and the creation of sensor learning tools for the Second Nature course in fall 2013. The MIT Alumni Class Fund will support valuable learning experiences for an interdisciplinary team of MIT undergraduates who will work with Prof. Kennedy in Summer 2013. The team will create sensors that will be field tested through a special opportunity in Brazil’s Amazon, enabling the team to learn data compilation techniques and experiment with visualizing data sets. The sensor module “toolkits” created and tested in summer 2013 will be documented and used as a foundational teaching and learning platform for further development and innovation by MIT undergraduates in the Second Nature course in fall 2013.