News and Productions – Building 21

News and Productions

Our Podcast

Check out our podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Podbean.

McGill's Building 21: Thinking beyond the acknowledged, the recognized and the comfortable.

Special Projects

View our special projects repository below. Designed, hosted, and built at Building 21.

Radical Futures (2019 - 2023)

A desire to re-invent how we interact with the future

EDUHACK Nigeria (2022)

An Educational Hackathon to support transformational ideas in education

Virtual Open House

Created as part of a summer research project at McGill's Building 21: "Foundations of a Better World"

Poetry and VR: “Scène de la Mer”

A brief, atmospheric poetry experience in French and English, created by students at McGill's Building 21.

Poetry and VR: Ollivier Dyens & John Mac Master

What are poetry and literature when transformed and modified by technology?

The "Matterless Matters" Talks

There are some questions that sound pointless, but aren’t. In the Matterless Matters talks, the answers don’t matter very much – but the questions, surprisingly, do.

The "I'm Not Sure" Talks

What is beauty? What is knowledge? Are there limits to human understanding? Can a machine create moving poetry?

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In the news

Read about Building 21's features in the news.

Repenser le monde avec Building 21 et Ollivier Dyens

Mon Carnet, le podcast

Building 21: An innovative space for academic play

McGill University News and Events

Research by Darius Valevicius, a Building 21 alumnus and staff, covered by the Guardian

We need boldness and daring in our education system

University Affairs