What Are We Building?: Culture, Methods, and Alternative Visions to Sociotechnical Futures

Designed as a forum for the next generation of makers; to expand, diversify and reflect on what we build and the effect it has in the world. Literary sources across fields—in science, society and technology, embodiment and cognition, sustainability, colonial histories and feminist studies, data studies, and cybernetics—are foundational to the course. We respond through creative projects that challenge contemporary sociotechnical systems such as data governance and surveillance, climate and environmental degradation, policing, carceral and correctional systems, class and labor disparities, discrimination, computation, and (social) media.

Questions, please email Grisha Coleman (gcolema1.mit.edu)