Samuel E. Kronick

kronick <at> mit.edu
359 Cambridge St. Cambridge MA 02141
(612) 532-4561

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Boston, MA

Pursuing B.S. in architecture and visual arts
Humanities concentration in Science, Technology, and Society
Graduation Date: June 2010

Chaska High School - Chaska, MN

Relevant Coursework

STS.074 - Art, Craft, Science
MAS.960 - Design for Empowerment
MAS.741 - Technologies for Creative Learning
4.441 - Building Technology Laboratory
4.394 – Visual Arts Independent Study: Participatory Classroom Design Project
4.237 – The New Practitioner: Bayou Smart Village Louisiana
4.365 – FEMA Trailer Project
4.391 – Networks, Tactics, Breakdowns
4.440 - Structural Design
21M.714 – Performance, Art, and Technology
STS.075 - Technology and Culture
4.500 - Intro to Design Computation
4.351 – Intro to Video
4.401 - Intro to Building Technology
4.605 – Architecture History
4.112 – Integrated Architecture Studio
4.302 – Foundations in Visual Arts
4.101 – Experiencing Architecture Studio

Grants/Fellowships/Honors

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts - Spring 2010
I. Austin Kelly III Prize for Excellence in Humanistic Scholarship - Spring 2010
Vera List Prize for Writing on the Visual Arts - Spring 2010
MIT Council for the Arts Grant - Spring 2010
MIT Public Service Center Summer Fellowship - Summer 2009
MIT Visual Arts Program Director's Grant - Summer 2009
Laya and Jerome B. Wiesner Student Award - Spring 2009
MIT Council for the Arts Grant - Spring 2009
Kelly-Douglas Travelling Fellow - Summer 2008
MIT Arts Scholars Program - Fall 2007/Spring 2008

Ting-Bing: Open Source Buildingware for Adventure Classrooms

An investigation into participatory architecture -- can a group of high school students find empowerment by constructing their own classroom structure? I designed this system of modular building components and then tested it hands-on with some local students to find out. My undergraduate thesis-in-the-works. For a detailed description, see this paper. (In collaboration with Bill McKenna)

Summer workshops with students from Prospect Hill Academy:
Physical and virtual modeling kits for future workshops:
Presentations for MAS.960 and 2009 Open Archicture Challenge competition entry.

Collaboration with N55 (Summer 2008 - Present)

During the Summer of 2008, I entered into collaboration with art collective N55 based in Copenhagen, Denmark. We have produced the following projects:

WALKING HOUSE (Summer 2008 - Ongoing) - Commissioned by Wysing Art Center Cambridge, UK

The WALKING HOUSE will be exhibited as part of the 2010 European Capital of Culture in Essen, Germany.

Press: Guardian.co.uk New York Times Popsci.com BBC News
URBAN FREE HABITAT SYSTEM (Summer 2008)
Produced as part of Metropolis Copenhagen
I gave a public lecture for Nubtalks about my summer in Copenhagen and work with N55.

Sam Kronick on The Importance of Building from Nubtalks on Vimeo.

Digital Sketches (Fall 2009- Winter 2010)

All sketches done with Processing.

Projects from MIT Courses

Long Span Roof Engineering and Design (Spring 2009) - 4.440 with Professor John Ochsendorf
"Farmadillo" FEMA Trailer Conversion (Fall 2008) - 4.365 with Jae Rhim Lee
Influencr 1 2 (Fall 2008) - 4.391 with Amber Frid-Jimenez

MIT Media Lab UROPs

Computing Culture Group - with Chris Csikszentmihalyi (Fall 2008/Winter 2009)
Software and hardware design for activist robots on land and sea.
Opera of the Future - with Tod Machover (Spring 2007, Spring 2008)
Durable, articulated model of the "chandelier", a central stage piece of the opera.

Independent Design

Fashion (Fall 2008) - Custom-made hats, gloves, and sweatshirt.
Spaceframe Bench (Fall 2008) - Installed in front garden of tEp, an MIT living group
Cargo Trike (Fall 2008) - DIY version of the Christiana Bike for MITERS.

Museum of the Triumph of the Human Spirit (Spring 2008)

The MothTotHS was an art museum I started in the spring of 2008. It was housed in my place of residence at the time.

CRACKED (2007-2008)

CRACKED is an independent undergraduate art collective. I was a member since its inception in January 2007. The collective was part of numerous performances, events, and shows. We worked closely with the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies and their visiting artists.

Fritz Haeg Campus Tour and Animal Estates (Spring 2008)
Boston Phoenix Article
Performance/Tour for visiting artist Jenny Romaine (Spring 2008)
HONK! Festival Parade - "Clean Up the Streets!" Float from Recycled Materials (Fall 2007)

Cambridge Science Festival "Rube Goldberg" Kickoff Machine (Spring 2007)

In collaboration with Jesse Marsh, Sadie Scheffer, Connie Yeh and John Glowa, I helped design and build a giant Rube Goldberg Machine to "kick off" the 2007 Cambridge Science Festival.
Press:
WGBH Boston
Cambridge Chronicle
MIT News Office and Tech Talk

The Tech - Staff Photographer

Independent Photography

Many photographs I have taken can be viewed on my Flickr page.