Ceasar McDowell is a Professor of the Practice of Civic Design at MIT. Ceasar teaches on civic and community engagement and the use of social technology to enhance both. His current...
Scarlett Kim is a director and producer innovating the intersection of live performance and immersive technology. A polymath, Scarlett creates participatory experiences that expand liveness, drawing from theatre, XR, game...
Dr Julia Scott-Stevenson is lead researcher on MIT Open Documentary Lab’s R&D partnership with IDFA DocLab, and a steward of the ODL-led Independent XR Distribution Coalition. She authored the 2024...
We are honored to be a Mentor Partner with the Processing Foundation for the 2025 Processing Foundation Fellowship Program: Data Storytelling. The program invites individuals and collectives working across creative...
In 2024, we partnered with The Royal Shakespeare Company for the RSC IF (Interdisciplinary Fellowship), an annual, year-long fellowship centred on historically underrepresented voices for artists, researchers and cultural workers...
In 2024, we partnered with Onassis ONX on a fellowship. Initiated as an exchange, one artist from the Onassis ONX community and one from the MIT Open Doclab community will...
In 2025, we partnered with Agog: The Immersive Media Institute on one of our Collaborative Case Studies: Libraries as hubs for XR distribution, exhibition and creation. As longstanding centers for...
Neda Moridpour (she/they) is a Kurdish-Iranian cultural futurist, artist, and organizer whose research examines cycles of violence that lead to displacement, discrimination, and systemic inequities. Through socially engaged art and...
Pei-Ying Lin is an artist/designer from Taiwan and is currently based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. She holds a MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art, UK and...
Navid Khonsari is the co-founder of iNK Stories, a New York–based studio creating groundbreaking interactive and immersive work across games, VR/AR, and mixed reality. He helped establish the cinematic look...