Bringing together two leading research initiatives, Antikythera’s The Noocene: Computation and Cosmology from Antikythera to AI and MIT Architecture’s Climate Work: Un/Worlding the Planet, this exhibition confronts urgent questions about our planet’s future and the role of architecture in shaping it. By juxtaposing and synthesizing planetary computation and climate-conscious architectural practice, the exhibition challenges us to rethink the scale and span of human action in relation to Earth’s systems.

Spanning two floors, The Next Earth stages a conversation between Antikythera’s and MIT Architecture’s current research on climate, cosmology and computation. Antikythera examines the Earth as an evolving megastructure, through artifacts from the winding history of early Modern philosophy, astronomy and cosmology, while MIT Architecture presents a kaleidoscope of thirty-seven different samples on what it has meant and what it might mean to practice with an eye to the planetary ramifications of architecture and design.