Sheila Kennedy of KENNEDY & VIOLICH ARCHITECTURE will speak on Thursday Oct 3 at 6:30 in the DMC lecture hall on their "Portable Light Project"

and the event will be co-sponsored by the Sustainability Studio and the Architecture Dept's Tuesday Talks series.

Sheila Kennedy is an American architect, innovator, and educator. She is a Professor of Architecture at MIT and a Co- Founder and Principal ofKVAMatx. Designated as one of Fast Company's emerging Masters of Design, Sheila Kennedy is described as an "insightful and original thinker who is designing new ways of working, learning, leading and innovating". Sheila has received the Innovator Award from Architectural Record, the Rupp Prize for Distinguished Practitioners, the Innovation Green Grant from the Lemulson Foundation and a MIT Bose Innovation Fellowship. Kennedy's design work has been widely published and has been exhibited at the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, at MoMA, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the International Rotterdam Biennial, the Vitra Design Museum, and the TED conference in California. Kennedy has been invited to share her work at the United Nations in New York, on National Public Radio, BBC World News, Swedish Television, French Television, CBS Spotlight on Design, The Discovery Channel, CNN Principal Voices, Wired, Elle Magazine, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal.