Dr. Kate Stone, founder of Lab Novalia, works at the intersection of ordinary printing and electronics to make our current analogue world come alive through interaction…all while insuring that everything looks exactly like it usually does.

Using her techniques, Dr. Stone adds interactivity and capacitive touch to everything from hats and mandalas to packaging and books– and connects them to the internet!  Her work results in posters enabling you to DJ a show by touching, books that read themselves, and papers & scores that actually play musical notes out loud.

Kate will visit Hampshire College to give a presentation entitled “A future more like the Past than the Present” at 5:00 PM on Tuesday, February 27th, in FPH East Lecture Hall; on Wednesday, February 28th, she will lead a personal workshop from 11:00-12:30 PM in the Roos-Rohde House! 

Come meet Kate and actually learn how she makes her innovative paper technology and find out how she seeks to make technology that will help us grow, not just make us more comfortable. Tuesday’s seminar presentation is free and open to the public: Refreshments will be served. During Wednesday FREE LUNCH Workshop, Kate will show us how she makes her innovative interactive prints. Both are part of The Institute for Science’s Compassionate Knowledge initiative.