Dear All: Please come for the talk by Richard Sennett tonight at MIT. This is the inaugural public event of the conference on Writing Cities, co-organized by graduate students in MIT, Harvard and LSE, from Wednesday and Thursday. For more information on the conference, see http://urban.media.mit.edu
Best, S.K. -- *The Craftsman* Talk by RICHARD SENNETT Bemis Adjunct Professor of Sociology, MIT Dept of Urban Studies and Planning Tuesday, April 22, 2008, Room 10-485, 6:00-7:30pm http://urban.media.mit.edu/pdf/sennett.pdf http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300119091 "As Richard Sennett makes clear in this lucid and compelling book, craftsmanship once connected people to their work by conferring pride and meaning. The loss of craftsmanship—and of a society that values it — has impoverished us in ways we have long forgotten but Sennett helps us understand." —Robert B. Reich "The Craftsman names a basic human impulse: the desire to do a job well for its own sake. Although the word may suggest a way of life that waned with the advent of industrial society, Sennett argues that the craftsman's realm is far broader than skilled manual labor; the computer programmer, the doctor, the parent, and the citizen need to learn the values of good craftsmanship today. "In his most ambitious book to date, one of our most distinguished public intellectuals explores the work of craftsmen past and present; he connects physical labor to ethical values; he challenges received ideas about what constitutes good work in today's world." — from the book jacket Hosted by MIT DUSP/Community Design and Development Forum -- Shekhar Krishnan MIT E51-185 77, Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A. http://web.mit.edu/shekhar http://heptanesia.net http://bombayology.net http://zotero.org/about _______________________________________________ Sci-tech-public mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/sci-tech-public
