AS220, a nonprofit organization for artists, is working with the city to bring design and fabrication technology developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to a downtown space for public use.

The plan is to enhance the AS220 Labs, a teaching and community workspace in the organization’s Empire Street headquarters, with technology purchased from the Cambridge, Mass., university.

Eventually, AS220 plans to move the lab to a larger space on Washington Street, where it purchased a building earlier this year with a $1.6-million loan from the city.

Full Story: MIT ‘folk technology’ coming to downtown Providence Source: Providence Journal, November 12th, 2008 Author: Philip Mercelo Added on November 12th, 2008 at 9:45 am, by Matt Mikula