ANCIENT FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
Touching upon themes as diverse as the importance of storytelling, gifts versus commodities, reciprocity with nature, and the changing meaning of the sacred in the present world, Ancient Future Technology explores how society might begin to heal the human-nature divide through techniques and philosophies that remix traditional wisdom.
This site is an archive of work from the 2021 iteration of the Ancient Future Technology course taught at the MIT Media Lab.
FEATURED STUDENT PROJECTS

BATOPIA: Empathic Listening of Animals in a Mixed Reality Perspective-Taking Game (Yujie Wang, Yiou Wang)

Silent Birdsongs | Nonviolent Alternatives (Joris Komen)

Biocementing with Microbes (Laura Maria Gonzalez)

Arboreal City (Elaine Regina)

Ancestral Typography (Cecilia Vilca)

Governing the Decentralized Commons (Max Langenkamp)

Feed (Weihan Jiang)

Future Memorials (Phoebe Yang)

Programmable Mud (Sandy Curth)
