Connecting global dots for "Sunny Memories"
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Connecting global dots for "Sunny Memories"
Nov 22, 2010 05:59 PM
Demonstrating the powerful results of international collaborations in science and education, the swissnex network proudly launched the "Sunny Memories" exhibit of solar cells at The Laboratory at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 29.
Initiated by the EPFL-ECAL Lab in Lausanne with the support of Lombard Odier Private Bankers, pioneers in responsible investment, Sunny Memories gathered projects from 80 students from four top-level design schools: California College of the Arts, Royal College of Art, Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne and Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle.
Running until November 10, it is a large-scale international workshop based on the concept of “dye-sensitized” solar cells invented by Prof. Michael Graëtzel at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne). It was inaugurated in the presence of Federal Councilor Didier Burkhalter, head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs, as part of his trip to Boston to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of swissnex.
In his keynote speech, Mr. Burkhalter stressed the need for combining cleantech and design: “Technology is important, but it needs to be adapted to match human needs in order to be useful.” He insisted on the role of “design and, by extension, all aspects of arts and human sciences…for breakthroughs in the hardest global issues.” To read Mr. Burkhalter’s speech, click here.
Other speakers included EPFL-ECAL Lab director Nicolas Henchoz and Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard Dan Schrag - father of the “Snowball Earth” hypothesis. Prof. Schrag presented the results of his department’s cutting-edge research in the field of climate change and sustainability.
Sunny Memories is initiated by EPFL+ECAL Lab with the support of Lombard Odier Private Bankers. The Sunny Memories U.S. tour is supported by swissnex San Francisco, swissnex Boston, and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
The exhibit was set up at the Laboratory at Harvard with the support of Brandon Bird Design.
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