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Faculty Projects
Ken Urban's The Conquered. Courtesy of the artist.
The Conquered
A new multimedia theater piece inspired by innovations in neurotechnology
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
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
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
Rania Ghosn/DESIGN EARTH, The Planet After Geoengineering, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.
The Planet After Geoengineering
Speculative futures for planet Earth
Ana Miljački, Play Room Exhibition, MIT Keller Gallery, 2020. Credit: Justin Knight.
Critical Broadcasting Lab
Intervening in contemporary architectural discourse
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
Rendering for See Us Seesaw Together. Credit: Ana Miljacki and the Critical Broadcasting Lab.
See Us Seesaw Together
Kinetic connection at a physical distance
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
Jay Scheib, The Silence, 2019. Credit: Jay Scheib.
Jay Scheib’s The Silence
Dream worlds collide with real worlds in an endless spiral down
Songs from Extrasolar Spaces featuring Boston's Lorelei Ensemble, 2019.