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Lupe Fiasco Is On To His Next Chapter

Lupe Fiasco spoke with Okayplayer about his new album Drill Music in Zion, his forthcoming MIT course, rappers catching RICO cases, his friendship with Virgil Abloh, and more.

July 5, 2022

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Boston has the Freedom Trail. How about an Innovation Trail?

The city has been a hub of discovery and scientific breakthroughs for four centuries. A walking tour seeks to tell that story.

July 3, 2022

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MLK Visiting Scholar Lupe Fiasco Issues “AUTOBOTO”

MLK Visiting Scholar for 2022-2023 at MIT Lupe Fiasco releases new album.

July 8, 2022

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MIT’s new design hub

Supported by a $100 million founding gift, the Morningside Academy for Design is expected to open in the fall.

June 29, 2022

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Artist Xin Liu Lets Science-Backed Absurdity Take the Wheel

The artist and MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative Arts curator makes work that explores why the seemingly impossible is possible.

June 28, 2022

Making art through computation

Master’s student Chelsi Cocking combines her love for computer science and design in her research and outreach efforts at the Media Lab.

June 26, 2022

24HTECH: A new board game highlights the colonized experience

Departing from games that glorify European conquest, “Promesa” helps players understand Puerto Rico as a modern-day colony.

June 10, 2022

USA News Hub: Promesa Board Game

A new board game from Mikael Jakobsson and Rosa Colón Guerra that highlights the colonized experience in Puerto Rico.

June 11, 2022

Art & Market: Irmandy Wickasono

Irmandy Wicaksono, a PhD Candidate in Media Arts and Sciences from Indonesia is featured by Art & Market.

June 10, 2022

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RUEHR ‘Icarus’ and other chamber music

Icarus (2018) is a tone poem inspired by the famous Greek legend of the hero’s ill-fated flight too close to the sun. A multilayered work expressively, it focuses primarily on the euphoria of building the wings and initial flight, but … Continued

June 9, 2022

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Under Amy Brand, MIT Press celebrates 60 years

Since 2015, director and publisher of the MIT Press Amy Brand has presided over one of the largest university presses in the world, which marks its 60th anniversary this month.

June 8, 2022

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Designing for a Free Future

A new course explores the impacts of race, sexuality, and gender on the systems of everyday life For Danielle Wood, understanding identity–how experiences of race, gender, sexuality, and ability affect one’s experience of the world–is critical for designing better systems, … Continued

A New Board Game Highlights the Colonized Experience

Departing from games that glorify European conquest, Promesa helps players understand Puerto Rico as a modern-day colony In the popular board game Puerto Rico, players are placed in the role of colonial governors. Their task, while growing crops on … Continued

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A Reinvention of MIT’s Campus

Spaces for learning, living, discovering, and making were created and renewed during the MIT Campaign for a Better World.

June 14, 2022

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Power and prototypes: Matthew Angelo Harrison at MIT List Visual Arts Center

The Detroit-based artist positions organized labor and workers’ rights as entombed relics, victims of post-industrial economy — and leaves little room for discussion.

June 9, 2022

XR filmmaker tackles Caribbean land ownership issues

Creative technologist preps trio of film and virtual reality documentaries on Barbuda.

May 11, 2022

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11 art exhibits to heat up your summer

When the heat is on, some of us go to the beach, others retreat to air-conditioned movie theatres, and a few smart souls seek out the cool quiet of a museum.

June 13, 2022

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Construction to revamp Metropolitan Warehouse commences

Construction activities are scheduled to begin for the redevelopment of the Metropolitan (Met) Warehouse (Building W41) in June.

June 9, 2022

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Written half a century ago, a children’s book on Beethoven finds a publisher

“He had to overcome so many obstacles in his life, and yet that didn’t deter him from doing what he wanted to do,” Michael Gruenbaum said of composer Ludwig van Beethoven.

May 25, 2022

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It Must Be Now! is a call for change

MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, MIT Wind Ensemble, MIT Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and some special guests came together to perform It Must Be Now! (IMBN!), a two-year endeavor combining music, spoken word, and interpretive dance.

May 26, 2022

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