Building 21 Videos

Aiden Drake: My project is an attempt to understand the spread of opinions in online and offline social networks using quantitative (math-based) models. I want to research existing quantitative models …

Cecilia Dong: There are a lot of misconceptions about depression. According to a survey, more than 50 percent of people believe major depression might result from people “expecting too much from life,” …

Kim Abi Zeid Daou: My project is an exploration of storytelling through researching alternate perceptions of time and uncovering dynamic processes of reconstructing stories and memories …

Patrick S. Timmer: To me, the idiosyncratic behavior of persons is a punctum. I am always captivated by the uniqueness of gesture that each individual exhibits. This behavior is rarely perceived consciously …

Shannon Egan: I want to explore fractal structure in nature and society through photography, using the images I capture to create educational materials, diffused via a website and photo exhibition …

Taj Dyson: At the heart of physics lies the idea that anything can be fully described by its most fundamental parts. A snowflake, for example, is simply a collection of water molecules arranged in a shape …

April Lee: To think that we could divide our universities up into, on the one hand, "the arts and humanities" and on the other hand, 'the ...

Khando Langri: How does one write on the things that hurt? Things that hurt in a kind of hurt that is visceral and apocalyptic; a hurt that haunts and makes us see what Dum...

Cordelia Dingle: My Building 21 project aims to answer the question: What could a post-consumption city look like? The cumulative component is to host a dinner party set in a...

Christian Gonzalez-Capizi: Is there any way of grounding our morality without arbitrarily assuming some primary value in the first place? I believe one way of doing so is to realize th...

Lauren Jelinek: My project aims to delve into the dynamics of urban planning and policy in the refugee camp-city space in the modern era of mass migration across a multitude...

Bior Ajak: The main goal of this project is to highlight the economic and environmental dangers of increasing commodification and commercialization of death in our citi...