Don't miss our newest exhibition! Cosmograph: Speculative Fictions for the New Space Age is now on view.

SECOND FLOOR

Essential MIT

Local brews from Winter Hill Brewing Company
BBQ from Scott Brothers Kitchen
Sets by DJ Joseph Ntaimo

Lee Family Exchange

Bricks for the Blind
6:45pm
Catch a talk by Matthew Shifrin and learn how he is bringing the joy of building LEGO sets to blind people all over the world.

Learning How We Learn to See
7:30pm
Join Pawan Sinha to explore how his lab seeks to address the mysteries of vision, while also contributing to a pressing humanitarian need in the developing world.

Heide Maker Hub

See Through a Camera Lucida
6-9pm
Try your hand at a basic Camera Lucida, a tool used by artists for centuries, to trace 3D objects from life directly onto paper.

Learning Lab 1

Blindfolded LEGO Build-off
6-9pm
Best your friend in a blindfolded LEGO build-off. Which team will finish the fastest? Have a blast building and take the set home when you're done.

Learning Lab 2

Peripheral Illusions
6-9pm
Peripheral vision is a master of disguise. Join Vasha DuTell to learn what you can see where you aren't looking.

Find the Orange
6-9pm
Are the visual representations that guide our online interactions with the world sparse and impoverished, or richly detailed? Meet Aryan Zoroufi and explore a VR environment that seeks to address this very question.