Suket Dhir points to a detail on a jamdani weaving at the 2025 Artfinity ACT Lecture with Abhijit Banerjee. Photo: Gearoid Dolan. Cheyenne Olivier & Suket Dhir Weaving economic narratives through a traditional Bengali craft
Ana Rajcevic. Photo: Matjaz Rust. Ana Rajcevic Exploring embodiment through animal-inspired neuroprosthetics
Fungi prototype. Image courtesy of the artist. Of Boar and Fungi: A Nuclear Love Affair Exploring radioactive entanglements in post-Chernobyl forests
Rendering for Touching Grass, A Digitally Physical Experience. Courtesy of Joshua Higgason. Touching Grass, A Digitally Physical Experience Blurring the digital and natural through immersive experience
TRACES, by Balsa Crosetto Piazzi & Giorgis Ortiz, 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Photo: Marcos Guiponi Traces
Es Devlin draws Come Home Again, Tate Modern, 2024. Image courtesy of Es Devlin. Es Devlin Exploring biodiversity, linguistic diversity, and collective AI-generated poetry
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Courtesy of the artists. Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme Considering embodied memory through sound, video, and performance
Chloe Bensahel. Courtesy of the artist. Chloe Bensahel Exploring smart textiles: weaving memory through innovation
Jackson 2bears | Tékeniyáhsen Ohkwá:ri. Courtesy of the artist. Ne:Kahwistará:ken Kanónhsa’kówa í:se Onkwehonwe Addressing questions of identity, the body, heritage, ancestry, and technology from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective
Installation view of Totem House, by studioSUMO, Crystal Bridges Museum. Image credit: Ironside Photography. Histories of Negation | BLACK city: The Arkansas Edition Giving presence to absent histories
Kazuko Ishii and a black telephone, TeleAbsence. Image courtesy of Hiroshi Ishii. TeleAbsence Addressing the vast emotional distance caused by the loss of a loved one
Be Aware of Droplets and Bubbles, by Lydia Bourouiba and Argha Manna. A Paradigm Shift in Infectious Diseases Critical role of paradigm shifts in science illustrated through respiratory infectious disease transmission
Exhibition opening reception, credit Heidi Erickson. Machine Learning and the Arts Exploring the creative potential of emerging digital technologies
DesignEarth's Climate Inheritance, 2021. Courtesy of the artists. Climate Inheritance World Heritage at Risk
Proton Animation. Courtesy of James LaPlante, Sputnik Animation. © MIT and Jefferson Lab, 2021, All Rights Reserved. Visualizing the Proton Illustrating the subatomic world
Water Wars: Episode 2, The Eternal Swamp. Illustration by Sarnath Banerjee Water Wars Demystifying social science through creative storytelling
Rendering for See Us Seesaw Together. Credit: Ana Miljacki and the Critical Broadcasting Lab. See Us Seesaw Together Kinetic connection at a physical distance
Rosa Colón Guerra. Courtesy of the artist. Rosa Colón Guerra Challenging colonialist narratives through board games
Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) Website, 2015, designed and engineered by NODE/Bengler. Photo: NODE/Bengler. On the Record Creating new shared territories for discursive and collaborative practices
Credit: Wikimedia Chuck Hoberman With Hoberman, MIT students invent new transformable mechanisms 2012
Julia Ogryzidiak, Okeanos, 2012. Credit: RJ Muna Julia Ogrydziak Creating experiential art works and performances that draw from architecture, art, electronic music, science, nature, and more
Arthur Ganson, Gestural Engineering. Credit: Joshi Radin. Arthur Ganson Kinetic sculptor Arthur Ganson creates machines at once whimsical and philosophical
Anne Lilly. Courtesy of the Artist Anne Lilly Anne Lilly’s sensuous and interactive sculptures connect physical realities with the interior world of the mind. 2014