The Next Earth. Computation, Crisis, Cosmology

The Next Earth stages a dialogue between Antikythera’s Planetary Sapience and MIT Architecture’s Climate Work: Un/Worlding the Planet.
Antikythera is a global think tank reorienting planetary computation as a technological, philosophical, and geopolitical force. Planetary Sapience presents artifacts of encounters between philosophy and astronomy, featuring a cinematic survey of the think tanks’ core concepts, drawing on contributions from Antikythera’s global research network in computer science, biology, philosophy, and science-fiction. Climate Work by MIT Architecture explores architecture’s impact on the climate crisis, reimagining the between the local and planetary. Forty works-in-progress by MIT faculty each offer a miniature world and a way of reimagining the world—its material flows, energy use, practice, intervention, deep time, community, computation, and imagination. They examine how architecture relates to the planet, how it imagines the world, and, now, remakes it.
Between the planet’s cosmic reality and our own understanding of it, these exhibits spark a dialogue on how we see the Earth—and how we might reimagine its futures.