"The MIT Museum presents Remembering the Future, a monumental installation by artist Janet Echelman created in collaboration with architect, engineer, and MIT Associate Professor Caitlin Mueller. Suspended above the museum's grand lobby and open to the public from September 18th, 2025, through Fall 2027, the work transforms climate data into a three-dimensional form that invites visitors to engage both visually and conceptually."
"From the moment visitors enter the MIT Museum, their attention is drawn upward to Echelman's expansive net sculpture. Braided and hand-spliced fibers in shifting hues of orange and blue stretch across the atrium to form a canopy of color that hovers above the staircase. The multi-layered netting creates a sense of movement as natural light filters through during the day and programmed illumination activates the piece after dark, casting soft reflections on the surrounding walls."
"The installation is the result of an intensive partnership between artist Janet Echelman and architect Caitlin Mueller, whose work at MIT's Digital Structures group informed the project's structural innovation. Together, they developed a new technology that expands the geometric possibilities of tension-based forms. The collaboration demonstrates how architectural engineering and artistic expression can merge to produce lightweight structures that maintain strength and equilibrium."
Remembering the Future is a monumental suspended net sculpture installed in the MIT Museum atrium, open to the public from September 18, 2025 through Fall 2027. Braided and hand-spliced fibers in shifting oranges and blues stretch across the atrium to form a hovering canopy above the staircase. Natural light and programmed illumination animate the multi-layered netting, casting soft reflections on surrounding walls. The work resulted from a collaboration between artist Janet Echelman and MIT Associate Professor Caitlin Mueller, who developed new tension-structure technology. Climate records from the last ice age through future projections inform the sculpture’s curves and layers via modelled regional temperature and atmosphere data.
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