Taking the long view: The Deep Time Project
How would we design and build differently if we learned to live at multiple time scales? How would human communities respond to global challenges if the short-term mindset of contemporary…
“Ballet des Porcelaines” at MIT
A faraway island. An evil magician. A prince transformed into a teapot. A princess on a rescue mission. When the first performance of the “Ballet des Porcelaines” was staged at…
Considering the spiderweb
The spiderweb is an everyday architecture — non-monumental and easily overlooked. Yet artists and scientists are working to unlock the secret of its complex geometry, a mystery that could inspire…
Finding the love hormone in a stressed-out world
In Jenna Sutela’s work, which ranges from computational poetry to experimental music to installations and performance, the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) Visiting Artist enlists microbes and…