A project supported by a Mellon Faculty Grant from the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, Ways of Seeing brought together an international team of archaeologists, architects, conservationists, digital artists, journalists, and political scientists to document endangered heritage sites in Afghanistan. The project preserves the evidence of the heritage sites and provides learning resources for a range of global audiences, including Afghan refugee children currently displaced around the world.

Attendees at a presentation and demonstration event on the sixth floor of the MIT Media Lab on Thursday, April 27, 2023 experienced the “digital twins” of several of the sites and heard from Fotini Christia, Ford International Professor in the Social Sciences in the MIT Department of Political Science, and Nilolaos Vlavianos, PhD candidate in Design and Computation at MIT.

Learn more at arts.mit.edu/ways-of-seeing