Media Lab Europe
Media Lab Europe is a university-level research and
education centre located in Dublin, Ireland. It first opened its
doors on 24th July 2000 on the top floor of the nineteenth-century
hopstore, part of the Guinness Brewery. The entire building and
the adjacent properties are being made available by the Irish Government
to form a Media Lab Europe campus in the heart of a new digital
media district, the Digital Hub.
Replicating the innovative
and entrepreneurial operating model of the world-renowned MIT Media
Lab, the European Research Partner will "invent the future"
and adopt an interdisciplinary approach in researching the way new
technologies can impact people's lives and environments. Media Lab
Europe has the vision to enhance the quality of life through research
and education focused on a sustainable, human-centric design in
technology, science, and the arts. It is also expected to foster
greater levels of innovation and entrepreneurship, initially through
the development of a parallel incubator/accelerator unit called
Media Lab Ventures.
This is the first time that the MIT
Media Laboratory has collaborated to establish an independent centre
reproducing its atelier-style and pre-competitive research culture
away from its Cambridge, Massachusetts's home base.
www.medialabeurope.org
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