The Bees of Science

An exhibition highlighting the work of students of MIT Media Lab’s Canan Dagdeviren. Her students work at the intersection of nature, art, and science, drawing on both their experiences in diverse fields of science and engineering and also their diverse cultural backgrounds, much as the bees draw nectar from a host of different flowers. Displayed are projects in seven honeycombs. Each honeycomb is an oversized lenticular showing not only a new conformable device developed by the student, but also his or her artistic/personal inspiration for the design: a grandmother’s face, an ultrasound image of an infant son, or a beautiful butterfly.