2010 Presenters
David Edwards
David Edwards is the founding director of Le Laboratoire in Paris and teaches at Harvard University in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His work includes new ways to treat infectious diseases, new ways to clean the air, and new ways to eat.
His work spans the arts and sciences and lies at the core of a network of multi-disciplinary labs in Europe, USA and Africa. Edwards is the founder of Medicine in Need, and the Boston-based Cloud Foundation that oversees Cloud Place, a dynamic center for urban youth arts, which launched the $100K ArtScience Innovation Prize. The youngest-ever member of the National Academy of Engineering, Edwards was a featured speaker at The World Economic Forum in Davos in 2010.
A manifesto of a new innovation model driven by the arts, his new book, The Lab, offers a fresh look at the creative process as it applies to experiential education, museum exhibition, and industrial innovation.
LINKS:
Edwards' faculty page at Harvard University
Experimental Art and Design Center that Edwards founded in Paris
