https://mlml.io/projects/ Recent projects on metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel en-US Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:19:32 +0000 https://mlml.io/p/glacial-sensibilities/ Mon, 31 Jan 2028 00:00:00 +0000 https://mlml.io/p/glacial-sensibilities/ project This SNF postdoc project (2026-2028) is an anthropology of media and design that examines how human environmental consciousness is impacted by the affective dimensions of sensing technologies that transform our understanding and representation of the cryosphere, focusing on their scientific, cultural, and political dimensions, hosted at the ICDP HGK Basel FHNW. This research is comparative and spans strategic cryosphere sites in the Swiss Alps, Central Asia, and Antarctica. Through multimodal ethnographic fieldwork, the project explores narratives and affective sensibilities embedded in the modelling and simulation of glacial sites. https://mlml.io/p/spatial-affairs/ Thu, 31 Dec 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mlml.io/p/spatial-affairs/ project The project is a two-year, joint program between the cultural institutions House of Electronic Arts (HEK) in Basel, Switzerland, Museum of Art & Photography in Bangalore, India, and Tabakalera International Center for Contemporary Culture in San Sebastián, Spain, in collaboration with the technological partners iart, studio for media architectures, and TEKNIKER in Eibar in the Basque Country in Spain, as well as research partner metaLAB (at) Basel, Switzerland. The SPATIAL AFFAIRS. https://mlml.io/p/data-twist/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mlml.io/p/data-twist/ project The Data Twist is a participatory art project that kinesthetically plays with survey data to promote public discourse−to be fully developed in workshops, deployed as a performative installation, and supported by a choreographic interface. The project’s dance games are designed to balance humor and discomfort in order to facilitate nonverbal debate in public settings. The structural similarities between the survey format of The Data Twist and the U.S. Census, elections, and polls presents the conditions for participants to civically exercise parrhesia or “fearless speech,” but in the nonverbal register of dance. https://mlml.io/p/sustainable/ Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mlml.io/p/sustainable/ project ¿SUSTAINABLE? A Spring 2026 Online Symposium Series Launching in the Spring 2026 semester, **¿SUSTAINABLE? ** is a five-part online symposium series that critically interrogates the notion of sustainability across landscape architecture, design, urban planning, and environmental studies. Structured as a sequence of focused conversations, the series asks whether, how, and for whom current practices can truly be called “sustainable,” and what kinds of frameworks are needed to move beyond rhetorical claims toward more rigorous, accountable approaches. https://mlml.io/p/humane-infrastructures/ Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mlml.io/p/humane-infrastructures/ project Humane Infrastructures is a deep journey into humanistic and humane knowledge and how it can be engaged to help us collaboratively respond in ethical and sustainable ways to our current global challenges. Patrik Svensson takes the reader through a series of examples, case studies, experiments, and lively dialogues to reconsider infrastructure. He brings people, ideas, and perspectives in through a set of documents and documented experiences, some of which draw from the author’s practice in Umeå, Stockholm, New York City, and Los Angeles. https://mlml.io/p/data-storytelling-a-century-of-olympic-history/ Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mlml.io/p/data-storytelling-a-century-of-olympic-history/ project Curated by metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin, & Basel under the direction of Jeffrey Schnapp, the installation is part of Performance—the second of three exhibitions leading up to the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, hosted at the Gallerie di Piedicastello in Trento. Supported by the Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino in collaboration with the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Performance reflects on a century of Olympic evolution through a visual and data-driven lens. https://mlml.io/p/panopticum-news/ Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mlml.io/p/panopticum-news/ project In contrast to its past made of ink and paper, digital news is a volatile, lightweight, and ambiguous item. News has absorbed the characteristics and affordances of digital media. These affordances are remodeling the social and cultural role of news and journalism at large. For instance, news articles and snippets are published across platforms, copied, edited, and repurposed. Online news is shape-shifting. It is impossible to talk about the “news flow”, it is more appropriate to talk about “flows” – plural. https://mlml.io/p/relating/ Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mlml.io/p/relating/ project Technologies of Relating Technologies of Relating is a participatory workshop series that explores embodied movement as a fundamental technology for enhancing human connection and interaction. This series invites participants to delve into the art and science of movement, understanding how our bodies communicate, connect, and create relationships in both analogue and digital spaces. The series is presented by Partnering Lab and metaLab (at) Harvard, in partnership with the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OFA) Dance Program. https://mlml.io/p/audiovisual-aesthetics-in-formation/ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mlml.io/p/audiovisual-aesthetics-in-formation/ project How did the aesthetics of television come to define the way we perceive audiovisual media today? Audiovisual Aesthetics in Formation examines the history of crossmodal alignment, the interplay between sound and image, across Swedish and American television between 1970 and 1989. Combining computational methods such as variational autoencoders and signal analysis with historical interpretation, the project uncovers how stylistic conventions took shape within contrasting broadcasting environments and how these conventions continue to inform the rhythms of contemporary media culture. https://mlml.io/p/wayzgoose/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mlml.io/p/wayzgoose/ project The term “Wayzgoose” refers to a long-standing tradition in the printing and publishing world, dating back to the 16th century. Historically, the Wayzgoose was an annual event organized by master printers to mark the end of the summer and the beginning of the longer working hours of winter and working by candlelight. It was a time when printers and their apprentices would come together to celebrate their craft and hard work, with feasts and outings.