Book signing Jorge Almazán
Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa Street, Santa Fe, NMSigning Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
Book Signing: Kyle Harper
Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa Street, Santa Fe, NMSigning Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History and The Fate of Rome.
*CANCELED* Planetary Policy, Law & Regulation Week
Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa Street, Santa Fe, NMThe theme of Planetary Policy, Law, and Regulation encompasses not only the laws society is governed by, but also the laws with which planets are governed by. What would the best extraterrestrial governmental system be, and how would it relate to the systems still on Earth? What can the regulation of terrestrial ecosystems and beings […]
*CANCELED* Intelligent Systems & Cognitive Design Week
Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa Street, Santa Fe, NMWe are living in an age obsessed with intelligent systems. All walks of life are being transformed by machine learning, by software platforms that amplify human ability to manipulate mathematics and statistics, by the availability of Massive Open Online Courses, and by unprecedented access to data and collective insights through networks like Wikipedia and Stack […]
*CANCELED* Time Design Week
Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa Street, Santa Fe, NMThe concept of time pervades everything that we know about the physical and biological universe. However, adaptive phenomena cannot be trivially reduced to the simple timescale of physics and chemistry. In adaptive systems, aging is explicitly viewed as a consequence of information gain (adaptation) and information loss (entropy). The Santa Fe Institute's research, along with […]
*CANCELED* Autonomous Ecosystems Week
Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa Street, Santa Fe, NMHumans are resilient, but are we resilient enough to jump the hurdles of longterm survival -- both on our planet and beyond? What can we learn about creating sustainable environments from the evolution of life on our planet, and can we apply those lessons to creating a self-sustaining system on other planets? What can we […]
*CANCELED* Architecture, Cities & Scale Week
Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa Street, Santa Fe, NMThe theme of cities, scaling, and sustainability is focused on organizational and dynamical aspects of biological and societal organizations, from our bodies, to our businesses, to our cities. This week brings together urban planners, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, and complex systems theorists with the aim of exploring the general scaling patterns in urban infrastructure and dynamics […]
*CANCELED* Motion & Energy Technology Week
Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa Street, Santa Fe, NMThe theme of Motion & Energy Technology is all about how we get to wherever we're going. What fuel sources will propel us? Would InterPlanetary travel require a fundamentally new technology? How would these technologies affect the transportation roadmap here on Earth? Will the spaceship of the future actually be a space-city, complete with trees […]
*CANCELED* Astrobiology and Life Detection Week
Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa Street, Santa Fe, NMThe origin of life on Earth remains a hotly contested question among scientists. Maybe life began in the depths of the ocean, or with an electric spark, or in a small pond that repeatedly dried. Perhaps the answer to this question will be found through our understanding of the role that RNA played in the […]
*CANCELED* Concert Series – Presented by AMP Concerts
Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa Street, Santa Fe, NMFree, live music every Friday in the Railyard Plaza all summer long! Concerts presented by AMP Concerts, sponsored by Falling Colors, and additionally supported by the InterPlanetary Festival.
*CANCELED* Emergent Engineering Week
Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa Street, Santa Fe, NMHumans still struggle to engineer complex systems. Our position is that the engineering premise is fatally flawed when it comes to complexity and that we need a new paradigm. This week explores the ideas needed to inform this paradigm shift. Existing biological interventions offer some clues regarding necessary elements for such a framework. Like neuroprosthetics and […]
Sandboxes to Think & Play With
Railyard Plaza 1612 Alcaldesa Street, Santa Fe, NMBiophysicist Shawn Douglas and designer Chaim Gingold discuss their inspirations and strategies for building computational tools that introduce new ways to play and think. Recently, they have been collaborating on Gelbox, a simulation and visualization tool for teaching Gel Electrophoresis—a notoriously hard to learn yet foundational tool in biology. This project grew directly out Shawn’s […]