MIT Museum

We produced over 20 interactive moments across 20,000 square feet at the MIT Museum, showing how MIT's innovations shape the future and made complex science accessible through engaging, interactive, and playful experiences.

The Window, MIT Community Wall

MIT sees itself not as a place, but as a “unique collection of exceptional people.” The Community Wall is the first major media moment visitors encounter at the museum. It offers a playful, generative data visualization of the MIT community, showcasing the radical ideas and innovations that define MIT. At input stations, visitors complete a survey to generate a personal avatar that reflects MIT's fun and quirky spirit. These avatars bounce, play, and interact on a large media surface.

Collaborative Poetry

This application teaches visitors about AI by inviting them to write poetry with an AI specifically trained to write poetry. Visitors can alternate writing lines with the AI, which suggests contributions based on the user’s input. Completed poems are added to an archive and displayed on the curving screens overhead, forming a river of collaborative poetry.

Black Box

Visitors draw a face on a touchscreen, which is transferred to a three-layer holographic projection. The projection visualizes the neural network’s process of analyzing the face and determining its expressed emotion. Bluecadet trained an AI for this experience, creating a custom online application that captured thousands of facial expression drawings from the MIT Museum community.

Credits

Executive Creative Director
Troy Lachance

Creative Directors
Katie Savage, Ben Bojko, Kim Gim

Narrative Lead
Ksenia Dynkin

Project Management
Katie Lannigan, Ben Baker, Victoria Jones

Interactive Designers
Jillian Hammer, Alyssa Hamilton

Motion Designers
Devon Burgoyne, Siji Chen

Technology Leads
Ben Bojko

Technologist
Weili Shi, Adiel Fernandez, Braxton Collier, Kevin Zakszewski