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According to Professor David A. Edwards, faculty director of the Lab, the space is intended to be a “sandbox sort of play zone,” where creative people can be “encouraged to dream like they’re encouraged to analyze and not [be] punished by breaking a mold that is defined by some concentration...
...Lab works to facilitate interdisciplinary discussion and teamwork, as displayed by its six motley partners—the A.R.T., FAS, GSD, the Idea Translation Lab, the Lab Office of the Provost, Le Laboratoire, and SEAS...
...this effort is a departure from when he was a student. “When I was here there was a division into specialized units. Now there seems to be an interdependent movement to enhance the productivity of the university.” He did question, however, how the Lab could function within the University at large. “It’s hard to see the structure of the Lab at this point...
...Lab seems to construct a hip aura from its website’s nerd-cool font to the presence of members of the Donkey Show at the Grand Opening. Edwards, who was recently selected as one of the 25 most stylish Bostonians by the Globe, says the Lab has a “very anti-institutional feel...
Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, former dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a member of The Laboratory’s Executive Committee, calls the Lab a “Renaissance place,” and says he fully supported its construction on one condition, “that it’s intimately tied to the Harvard undergraduates...