Cristina Parreno Alonso from the MIT Department of Architecture recently devised a new class, The Deep Time Project, which launched in Fall 2022. The class culminated in a series of “material essays” that seek to bring deep time into contemporary consciousness.
Frederick Harris Jr., MIT senior lecturer and creator of the It Must Be Now! initiative, reflects on music’s historic role in addressing racial issues.
"Promesa" is a new board game about PROMESA, the 2016 government act established in response to Puerto Rico’s debt crisis. MIT's Mikael Jakobsson and Rosa Colón Guerra, with the help of a 2020-22 CAST Visiting Artist Grant, prototyped the game.
An educational animation and documentary film, "Visualizing the Proton," depicts the subatomic world in a new way. The work is a collaboration between MIT, Jefferson Laboratory, and Sputnik Animation.