Hearing Amazônia: MIT musicians in Manaus, Brazil
In a new documentary film, music’s storytelling power illuminates cultural and environmental sustainability in Brazil.
Building a better indoor herb garden
Randall Briggs ’09, SM ’18 created the GardenByte indoor herb garden to grow crops three times faster than they would outdoors.
The eyes have it
With her new book, photographer Felice Frankel hopes to make scientists and engineers better visual communicators.
Serious play at the MIT Game Lab
This unique lab uses games as a way for students to play, explore, and learn to think critically about the role of games in society.
Spoken-word collaboration shows off the MIT community’s musical talents
"It gives people an outlet and a way of expressing themselves through music,” says one contributor to the MITverses project.
Explained: Generative AI
How do powerful generative AI systems like ChatGPT work, and what makes them different from other types of artificial intelligence?
A marvel in masonry shows the art of the possible
Martin Puryear’s monumental sculpture “Lookout” has turned heads with its novel brick design. Here’s how MIT helped him build it.
From MIT to Burning Man: The Living Knitwork Pavilion
An interactive architectural installation combined textile arts and engineering on a desert landscape.
The art of science and the science of art
“Making Art for Scientists” summer course at MIT invited scientists and engineers to explore new ways to visualize and represent their research.
Re-imagining the opera of the future
The iconic sci-fi opera “VALIS,” first composed by Professor Tod Machover in 1987, reboots at MIT for a new generation.
“We don’t give assignments here”
An expanded Hobby Shop welcomes all members of the MIT community seeking to build their passion projects.
Incoming MIT students surprise President Kornbluth with “Barbis” installation
For Interphase EDGE/x participants, a life-sized Barbie-themed TARDIS prompts reflections on social norms.
MIT engineers use kirigami to make ultrastrong, lightweight structures
Produced with techniques borrowed from Japanese paper-cutting, the strong metal lattices are lighter than cork and have customizable mechanical properties.
MIT at the 2023 Venice Biennale
“The Laboratory of Change” is the theme for the 18th International Architecture Exhibition.
Communicating across time
TeleAbsence, a project from the MIT Media Lab, probes and imitates the way humans process feelings of belonging, love, and loss.