Paths to Peace

We are free to choose our own fate

We can love or we can hate

We can create or we can stagnate

Please choose the right path, its never too late

 

What if an artist in XYZ posted a pattern on the web that a consumer in HIJ saw and liked, so a designer in ABC created a patter that a seamstress in RST made and shipped to the consumer who pays into an account that is shared buy all those in this new supply chain?  Can we achieve person-to-person globalization?

An Art-to-Part-to-Heart Approach: Bringing technology and a forum for trading designs to Students and Artists to create inlaid art that can be used to replace ugly concrete sidewalks with art from around the world that represents the world's people and cultures (soon we will have the ability for people to submit their panel designs)

Poems-for-Peace: People pondering ways to make the world a better place (soon we will have the ability for people to submit their poems)

Professors-for-Peace: Professors and students helping to design manufacturing machiens and products for local production

 

 

Read the proposal for a course to teach the design process and help people develop Pathways To Peace

Tiles created by MIT students during the IAP 2002 Pathways to Peace Class (2.972):

Mosque from Malaysian culture, by Nur Aida Abdul Rahim

Chinese goldfish, by Ming-fai Fong
Gandhi, by Amandeep Loomba
Snowflake, by Monica Rush
Shalom, by Amir
Rose dragon, by Frances Wong

 

For kids, also visit the Animaroo Zoo!

For teens, also visit the Urban Design Corp!

Prof. Slocum's "Advances in Manufacturing" Conference Presentations

 

We want to let the world know that the young-at-heart believe that through art and trade we can have a happy world free from conflicts.

We are only asking for moral support and information on artistic preference to help us judge best how to create this program

Sponsored by the Precision Engineering Research Group (PERG) at MIT

We create precision machines, and we want to help design a system to promote peace and understanding among people of the world

Inlay Artwork shown above by Linda Miller www.dreamweaver-designs.com


Updated September 18, 2003