A newly commissioned artwork by Janet Echelman at the MIT Museum turns climate data into a massive soft sculpture and potentially dread-inducing information into a magical, whimsical object.
The project, called “Remembering the Future,” is nestled in the museum’s main lobby, free to view. A colorful network of knotted rope and twine hangs from the ceiling, with curved stripes of green and blue and striking pops of orange in the center
