Day 2: Session 3

Sometimes you discover your path in the unlikeliest of places. For Rick Borovoy, that discovery began on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico. The schools where Borovoy was volunteering during a year off from Harvard needed help managing their information, so Borovoy helped them build databases. The experience, he says, made him "really interested in the way technology could play a meaningful and progressive role in a community." Back at college, Borovoy began studying how technology could be used in education, and after graduation he spent five years working on collaborative learning projects at Apple Computer, earning five patents.

By working in the fields of art and architecture, artist Michael Singer has opened new possibilities for joining large-scale public works projects to aesthetic concerns in order to meet the needs of the communities they serve. His pieces have become models for successful urban and ecological renewal.