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🤝 This past spring, realtalk@MIT partnered with WRAP (Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication) at MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing to support MIT lecturers.
🔭 The conversation started broad as lecturers reflected on the central question: What should our program be doing over the next five years? What began as a strategic planning exercise quickly became something more expansive.
💡The conversations surfaced not just ideas, but deeply personal reflections about what it means to be a lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Listen to Dr. Andreas Karatsolis reflect on his experiences with MIT WRAP below, and read more about the partnership here: https://www.ccc.mit.edu/pressmedia/discovering-the-future-of-wrap-via-realtalk-conversations/
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04/23/2025
🗓️ Deadline extended to April 25, 2025 🗓️
T-2 Days to Apply!
🎨 Call for Artists: Bring Boston’s Stories to Life 🎨
The MIT Center for Constructive Communication is partnering with local organizations for realtalk@Boston, a citywide civic listening initiative that amplifies the diverse voices of Boston. Over the past year, conversations from across the city have been recorded, capturing moments of love, grief, struggle, hope, and visions for the future.
Now, we need you to help bring these powerful stories to life through art! We are inviting a select group of Boston-based artists to create original works that interpret these conversations and spark public reflection.
What we provide:
- A creative stipend of $3,000-$5,000 (depending on scope of work and supplies needed)
- Access to intimate conversations recorded from across Boston 📜🎧
- Opportunities to collaborate with a dynamic research team and showcase your work in public spaces 🌍
We welcome all artists, especially those focused on community storytelling, participatory engagement, and dialogue-driven work.
🌟 Learn more and apply: https://www.ccc.mit.edu/eventopportunities/call-for-artists-bring-bostons-stories-to-life/ 🌟
For questions, please email Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, Head of Translational Research & Practice, MIT Center for Constructive Communication ([email protected]) with the subject line: Listening City Artist Proposal.
The deadline to apply is 04.25.2025
04/17/2025
🎨 Call for Artists: Bring Boston’s Stories to Life 🎨
The MIT Center for Constructive Communication is partnering with local organizations for realtalk@Boston, a citywide civic listening initiative that amplifies the diverse voices of Boston. Over the past year, conversations from across the city have been recorded, capturing moments of love, grief, struggle, hope, and visions for the future.
Now, we need you to help bring these powerful stories to life through art! We are inviting a select group of Boston-based artists to create original works that interpret these conversations and spark public reflection.
What we provide:
- A creative stipend of $3,000-$5,000 (depending on scope of work and supplies needed)
- Access to intimate conversations recorded from across Boston 📜🎧
- Opportunities to collaborate with a dynamic research team and showcase your work in public spaces 🌍
We welcome all artists, especially those focused on community storytelling, participatory engagement, and dialogue-driven work.
🌟 Learn more and apply: https://www.ccc.mit.edu/eventopportunities/call-for-artists-bring-bostons-stories-to-life/ 🌟
For questions, please email Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, Head of Translational Research & Practice, MIT Center for Constructive Communication ([email protected]) with the subject line: Listening City Artist Proposal.
The deadline to apply is 04.25.2025
03/31/2025
🤝 The MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) organized our second tech-enhanced and student-focused version of a Deliberative Assembly!
🌱 Over the course of three days, participating MIT undergraduates were asked to collectively deliberate and answer the central question: “What do students wish to see prioritized in the future of sustainability actions at MIT?”
🗣️ Members engaged in the typical experiences of Deliberative Assemblies, including discussions with experts in the field, including Julie Newman, Steven Lanou, Joe Higgins, Chris Rabe, Megan Lim, Jeremy Gregory, Leela Velautham, Kate Trimble, Hessan Farooqi, and Miranda Dotson.
🌟 New tools were added this year including personalized lapel mics, data comics, and demos to increase transparency over data use, and live AI-transcription, which served to review the conversation and suggest perspectives overlooked by the delegates.
❓Such tech helped us answer: How do we want AI tools to assist in deliberation and sensemaking? Read more about the Assembly: https://www.ccc.mit.edu/pressmedia/ccc-hosts-its-second-tech-enhanced-student-assembly/
A big THANK YOU! to all CCC staff and graduate students who supported the event: Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, Marina Rakhilin, Cassie Lee, Maya Detwiller, Ali Klemencic, Katie Morrell, Matthew McKenna, Leila Carter, Julia Matthews, Elinor Poole-Dayan. Suyash Fulay, Michael Wong, Shrestha Mohanty, and Zaria Jalan.
Photos by Artemisia Luk.
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