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"In theater, we imagine the impossible and try to make that possible," says Charlotte Brathwaite, an MIT assistant professor of theater arts, and an independent director of classical and unconventional texts, operas, dance, multimedia and site-specific installations, and concerts. "We not only imagine, but create the world as we think the world should be."

The world as we think the world should be

Assistant Professor Charlotte Brathwaite believes theater brings people together in a positive way.

February 17, 2017

"China Comes to Tech: 1877-1931" gathers materials from this chapter in MIT history for the first time. The exhibit will run through November, in MIT’s Maihaugen Gallery in building 14N.

3 Questions: Emma Teng on “China Comes to Tech”

New exhibit delves into history of Chinese students at MIT.

February 9, 2017

"Aerocene, 2016" is displayed at the 2017 World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

"Aerocene" soars at the 47th World Economic Forum

Climate-conscious sculptures influence world perspectives in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland.

February 9, 2017

Artist Leo Villareal's "Light Matrix" LED installation at MIT's newly renovated Building E52, the Morris and Sophie Chang Building

Featured video: The light fantastic in Building E52

Leo Villareal's "hypnotic" LED art installation welcomes visitors to the newly renovated Morris and Sophie Chang Building.

February 3, 2017

Professor John Ochsendorf and his freshman seminar students stand in front of Henry Moore's "Three-Piece Reclining Figure, Draped."

Art, engineering, and architecture

Freshman seminar inspires students to see the world with fresh eyes.

January 19, 2017

Glenn Silva has been hand-painting names and numbers on MIT doors for over two decades.

Featured video: Paint by numbers

Meet Glenn Silva, the man who's been hand-painting names and numbers on MIT doors for over two decades.

January 18, 2017

“The whole goal of my life is to fix all the people problems. I sincerely think that the biggest problems we have are how we deal with each other, and how we treat each other. [We need to be] promoting empathy and understanding, and technology is an enormous power to influence that in a good way,” senior Garrett Parrish says.

Creating “big, beautiful things”

Senior Garrett Parrish combines art and technology, with dramatic effects.

January 13, 2017

An MIT student participates in the Institute's Independent Activities Period (IAP)

Featured video: Diving into IAP

A look at MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP), a four-week term in January during which community members get creative.

January 12, 2017

MIT Alumni Elaine Chew (left), Noam Angrist (top right), and Huma Yusuf (bottom right)

MIT in London

The city offers an ideal home for MIT alumni whose work spans disciplines and continents.

January 12, 2017

Interstellate: Celebrating the the beauty of neuroscience

Caitlin Vander Weele, a graduate student in brain and cognitive sciences, launches a collaborative neuro-art pictorial magazine.

January 9, 2017

"Students selected as Burchard Scholars are some of MIT's liveliest undergraduates," says Margery Resnick, professor of literature and director of the Burchard program. "They are unafraid to wrestle with new ideas."

35 exceptional MIT students are named Burchard Scholars for 2017

Sophomores and juniors who excel in the HASS and STEM fields are honored.

December 20, 2016

Architect David Adjaye discusses the MIT Chapel.

Featured video: David Adjaye's appreciation of the MIT Chapel

World-renowned architect and recent McDermott Award winner describes MIT's Eero Saarinen masterpiece.

December 19, 2016

"Song of the Human" made its world premiere at the Winter Garden in New York City. Discovering MIT Professor Shigeru Miyagawa’s research on birdsong was “validating and inspiring,” creator Pete Wyer says.

"Song of the Human": An origin story

New work by composer Pete M. Wyer draws inspiration from MIT linguistic scholar Shigeru Miyagawa's hypothesis on the origins of human language.

December 13, 2016

Still from "Furusato" by director Thorsten Trimpop

Thorsten Trimpop wins Golden Dove grand prize at Leipzig Festival

CMS/W lecturer and Open Doc Lab fellow wins prestigious documentary filmmaking prize for "Furusato," chronicling effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

December 9, 2016

“We make sense of the world through stories, and we remember the world through experience. That’s how it works as human beings. I am telling a story and making people live an experience at the same time,” says MIT Visiting Artist Karim Ben Khelifa.

Face to face with "The Enemy"

Visiting Artist Karim Ben Khelifa creates immersive experiences using virtual and augmented reality to humanize soldiers in global conflicts.

December 2, 2016

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