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Faculty Projects

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An immersive and animated 3D world of Change Rate, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.

Proofing: Resistant and Ready

Exploring the promises and pitfalls of plasticity
Interior of a Testbeds garden greenhouse
Testbeds Pilot Project, The Garden by the Bay Community Garden in Edgemere, Queens.

Testbeds

A new life for the byproducts of architectural design
Dancer Marcus McGregor dancing in a white tall crown-shaped hat.
Dancer Marcus McGregor in Dan Safer's History of Empires. Credit Christopher L. Hicken.

The History of Empires

Cheerfully nihilistic dance/theater by the iconoclastic Witness Relocation/Dan Safer
A digital rendering of the Green Mosque in Balkh, Afghanistan, a 16th Century building.
A digital rendering of the Green Mosque in Balkh, Afghanistan, a 16th Century building. Image: Nikolaos Vlavianos.

Ways of Seeing: Documenting Endangered Built Heritage in Afghanistan

Generating digital twins to document endangered heritage sites in Afghanistan
View of the Totem House installation in a forest.
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
Photograph of Kazuko Ishii sits on a desk behind a black rotary telephone.
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 of Native American Nations in Oklahoma.
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
A dark lit and highly saturated image of a forest.
Ken Urban's The Conquered. Courtesy of the artist.

The Conquered

A new multimedia theater piece inspired by innovations in neurotechnology
Illustrations of a turquoise droplet with bold "splash" text.
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
Melissa Isidor standing in Mill Creek with a map of the area.
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

Making Change: In Place Over Time

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
Installation view of Two Mobility Futures.
Two Mobility Futures, 2022, MIT. Courtesy of the artists.

Two Mobility Futures 0∞

Divergent futures where humans move constantly, or not at all
Installation view of humans in space from the Hammer and the Feather exhibit.
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. Photo by Danny Goldfield https://bit.ly/3a8YjxW Please ask before use

The Hammer and the Feather

Exploring the sonic poetry of gravity
Four professors who co-taught the class, smiling and looking into the cameras.
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
Proton Animation. Courtesy of James LaPlante, Sputnik Animation. © MIT and Jefferson Lab, 2021, All Rights Reserved.

Visualizing the Proton

Illustrating the subatomic world
Installation view of the Play Room Exhibition by Ana Miljački.
Ana Miljački, Play Room Exhibition, MIT Keller Gallery, 2020. Credit: Justin Knight.

Critical Broadcasting Lab

Intervening in contemporary architectural discourse
Game pieces of gem and colorful map of the Promesa Board Game.
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
A photo of a child in a military uniform reads "How to become a dictator in 12 steps."
How to become a Dictator in 12 steps. Detail from the interface for the Anatomy of Revolution website (in progress). [Photo of child, courtesy the Arab Image Foundation]. 2020.

Anatomy of Revolution

Archiving movements of protest
A black and white photograph of Fabio Tavares (right) observing fellow performer Natalia deCampos (left) looking away from him, down to the left.
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
Digital illustration of small human forms sitting on four black inflated oval tubes.
Rendering for See Us Seesaw Together. Credit: Ana Miljacki and the Critical Broadcasting Lab.

See Us Seesaw Together

Kinetic connection at a physical distance
A musical score.
VALIS. Courtesy of Tod Machover.

VALIS

Reimagining live performance interactivity for a new generation

Rania Ghosn’s The Planet After Geoengineering

Speculative futures for planet Earth
Cristina Parreño Alonso

Cristina Parreño Alonso’s Tectonics of Wisdom

Expanding architecture’s temporal sensibilities through the material ancient wisdom of the library
Three people pose next to a geometric architectural installation.
The Open Collectives team is initiated by MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab founded and directed by architect Rafi Segal (back right), in collaboration with MIT Civic Data Design Lab director Sarah Williams (front), artist Marisa Morán Jahn (left), and futurist Greg Lindsay (not pictured). Photo: Marisa Morán Jahn.

Rafi Segal and Marisa Jahn’s Architecture for New Collectives

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