Dancer Marcus McGregor in Dan Safer's History of Empires. Credit Christopher L. Hicken.
Faculty Projects
Topdara Stupa, Parwan, Afghanistan. Point-cloud by Nikolaos Vlavianos, On-site data collection Moby Group.
Ways of Seeing: Documenting Endangered Built Heritage in Afghanistan
Generating digital twins to document endangered heritage sites in Afghanistan
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
Map courtesy of the Oklahoma Department of Transportation.
Native America: The Choctaw Music of Charles Shadle
Capturing contemporary classical music by a living Choctaw composer
Ken Urban's The Conquered. Courtesy of the artist.
The Conquered
A new multimedia theater piece inspired by innovations in neurotechnology
In Search of the Buried River. At the heart of the story is Mill Creek, a river that was buried in a sewer, and a West Philadelphia neighborhood that bears its name. Credit: Melissa Isidor
Claiming the Future
What does it mean for research to be racially just and restorative?
Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project. Image courtesy of the artist.
Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project
History is made through the objects we save and the stories we tell about them
DesignEarth's Climate Inheritance, 2021. Courtesy of the artists.
Climate Inheritance
World Heritage at Risk
Two Mobility Futures, 2022, MIT. Courtesy of the artists.
Two Mobility Futures 0∞
Divergent futures where humans move constantly, or not at all
The Hammer and the Feather is an immersive audio and visual installation, developed at MIT by technical instructor Christian Frederickson and visual artist and filmmaker Greg King. Bridging humanistic and scientific inquiry, the piece uses gravity as a poetic and conceptual departure point for musical, visual, and sonic material.
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The Hammer and the Feather
Exploring the sonic poetry of gravity
Queer-Feminist-Antiracism Future and Design for the Future cotaught by Danielle Wood (top left) and J. Austin Eyer (bottom right) with guest artists Jennifer Harrison Newman (center top) and Paul Lieber (bottom center).
Queer-Feminist-Antiracism and Design for the Future
Exploring dynamics of intersectional identities in complex systems and theater
Promesa Board Game: Understanding Puerto Rico’s debt crisis through play. Image credit: HErickson/MIT.
Promesa: Voicing Counter Colonialism Through Board Game Creation
Understanding Puerto Rico’s debt crisis through play
Natalia deCampos and Fabio Tavares perform in a workshop of Immense Joy/Hots. Credit: Ana Busto.
Immense Joy / H.o.t.S
Clarice Lispector’s brutal and tender exploration of what it truly means to be poor
VALIS. Courtesy of Tod Machover.
VALIS
Reimagining live performance interactivity for a new generation
Cristina Parreño Alonso
Cristina Parreño Alonso’s Tectonics of Wisdom
Expanding architecture’s temporal sensibilities through the material ancient wisdom of the library
Viola Ago and Hans Tursack. Courtesy of the artists.
Hans Tursack and Viola Ago’s Understorey
Toward a twenty-first century ecological design
Ian Hattwick. Courtesy of the artist.
Ian Hattwick’s Instrument Design as Artistic Practice
Discovering new sounds and new forms of music-making
Graham Jones. Courtesy of the artist.
Graham Jones and Seth Riskin’s Paranormal Machines
Detecting and measuring the mysterious
Jay Scheib, The Silence, 2019. Credit: Jay Scheib.