ARTSCIENCE LABS

…And Then There Were Two!

The jurors, staff, mentors, and observers of the Boston ArtScience Prize agree that this year's program produced the most amazing ideas yet, and the jury scores reflected the remarkably tight competition aspect of the program.

Of all the incredibly diverse ideas, the jurors fell in love with Green Code (Tony Chau of Charlestown High School), who seeks to create eco-friendly paint and exterior house decor out of lichens and other sustainable plants. Tony received a rousing ovation from the full house as Green Code was announced as the Paris-bound and highest funded team.

But then Boston ArtScience Prize Director Dishon Mills noticed that his awards envelope was not empty, a hush came over the crowd. Dishon and ArtScience Labs Executive Director Carrie Fitzsimmons announced there was a second group that was headed for Paris, Carbon Capture Perfume! Melissa Jean (O'Bryant School of Math & Science), Omar Janoudi (East Boston High School), and Sean Martinez (Mary Lyon Pilot School) brought the house down as the team - which seeks to create perfume bottles that capture environmental pollutants - took the stage to yet another ovation, capping off an amazing evening and program year. Both groups will be hard at work between now and their ten day trip, when they continue to pursue their passions and further develop their ideas at the ArtScience Labs Annual Innovation Workshop @ Le Laboratoire, the Idea Translation Lab in Paris.

Let's hear it for Green Code & Carbon Capture Perfume! The 2011-2012 Boston ArtScience Prize Virtual Worlds Paris-bound groups!

(Finals & Awards Night photos by Joel Veak)

ArtScience Prize Boston Cloud Foundation

May 22

Boston ArtScience Prize Finals & Awards Night

Boston ArtScience Prize Final Presentations took place over two nights in May at the Idea Translation Lab @ Cloud Place. The program has grown so large that a single evening could not contain the six hours of presentations! Later the same week, on May 3rd, we hosted Awards Night, when the prizes for each group were announced, and the Paris-bound students were unveiled. Remarkably, the Boston ArtScience Prize was once again able to fund all of its graduating groups - this year an astonishing 34 teams!

The evening began with an exhibition at Cloud Place, with a large crowd that mingled among the students work on display. The event then transitioned to our neighbor's place - the Boston Public Library's Rabb Theater - where the students were honored by speakers that included Michael Goar, Deputy Superintendent of Boston Public Schools.

Of all the groups that were not awarded the trip to Paris, one group, EvoMe, comprised of Ursile Louis-Jacque and Anna Li from Boston Latin Academy, and Angela Su, Michael Migliozzi, and Kenneth Tang from Boston Latin School, truly stood out to the jury and program staff as one of the hardest working, most dedicated groups in the history of the program. In a special award, EvoMe was granted $7,000 of project funding for the continuation of their amazing idea, which is a social media application that aids users in getting to know themselves better.

But who's going to Paris…?

(Finals & Awards Night photos by Joel Veak)

ArtScience Prize Boston Cloud Foundation

Apr 5

David Edwards on The Lab: Creativity and Culture, interviewed by Carla Nappi

To say that David Edwards‘s The Lab: Creativity and Culture (Harvard University Press, 2010) is inspiring would be a profound understatement. In a series of concise, focused chapters that range from “Dreams” to “Translational Change,” Edwards maps out a program for the artscience laboratory as a space that opens up creativity by fostering dialog across disciplines, materials, cultures, and groups of people...

Read the rest and listen to the interview here.

Mar 20

The CellBag, a story of hope in South Africa

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CellBag

Feb 14

Le Whaf launch party @ Le Laboratoire with the world's top chefs

Last night, more than 400 people gathered at Le Laboratoire for the launch party of Le Whaf, a new design by french culinary designer Marc Bretillot and American inventor David Edwards. The event was the conclusion of a two-day workshop at the Laboratoire during which three of the world's top chefs, Massimo Bottura from the Osteria Francescana in Modena, Ben Shewry from Attica in Melbourne and Homaro Cantu from Moto in Chicago experimented with the Whaf and prepared their own recipees to breathe in.

While Homaro used some of his miracle berries to make the first breathable chocolate cake of a mix of hazlenut liquor and lemon vodka, Massimo drew inspiration from french cuisine and tried a canard' à l'orange. Ben, for his part, mixed four Whaffing clouds from rice, rice vinegar, soja sauce and ginger to create a very surprising mix.

The Whaf will be shipped starting in March 2012 but you already preorder on our website here. You can pour your favorite cocktail or juice and turn it into a cloud of flavor for a totally new experience.