CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/10/2016

Blueprint for Counter Education Launch at Harvard CCVA

Join Inventory Press Tuesday, May 10 at Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts to celebrate the launch of the expanded reprint of the radical pedagogy classic, Blueprint for Counter Education. Together with a two-day exhibition, the event brings together original authors Maurice Stein and Larry Miller in conversation with Jeffrey Schnapp of metaLAB (at) Harvard and Project Projects principal Adam Michaels. Book signing to follow a round-table discussion.

JEFFREY SCHNAPP is the founder/faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. At Harvard, he serves as Professor of Romance Literatures and Comparative Literature, and is on the teaching faculty in the Department of Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Effective June 2015, he assumed the position of Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Piaggio Fast Forward, a Cambridge-based company devoted to developing innovative solutions to the transportation challenges of the contemporary world.

ADAM MICHAELS is a graphic designer, editor, and publisher. He is cofounder of Project Projects, winner of the 2015 National Design Award in Communication Design, and founder of Inventory Press, which publishes books on topics in art, architecture, design, and music, with an emphasis on subcultures, minor histories, and the sociopolitical aspects of material culture.

LARRY MILLER is a sociologist and was a member of the editorial collectives of the New American Movement newspaper and the journal Socialist Revolution/Socialist Review. He has written about major theorists and writers such as Marx, Gramsci, Althusser and Machiavelli.

MAURICE R. STEIN is an American sociologist and innovator in higher education. Stein is co-recipient of the 1987 Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the American Sociological Association's Community and Urban Sociology Section. Retired from Brandeis University since 2002, Stein resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Tuesday, May 10, 5–8PM
CRC/bookshop, Level 3
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Harvard University
24 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.496.5387