As a 2020-22 Visiting Artist at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology and Research Affiliate in the Art, Culture, and Technology program, Adesola Akinleye investigates how dance-based research and creative collaboration across disciplines can create new techniques, lexicons, and conversations within urban design.

With a particular interest in how the city shapes our bodies, and how, in turn, we shape the city, Akinleye invites the MIT community to observe and engage with the micro-city where we live, work, and learn.

While in residence at MIT, Akinleye has identified a vocabulary to stimulate conversations across disciplines, which she refers to as the “lexicon.” The lexicon serves as an instrument for participants, offering a method of exploring the environment of/in the city. By noticing how buildings, paths, shadows, fences, and the people around us impact our movements and we impact them, can we examine and even reconsider the meaning of this Place?

In this video, Adesola Akinleye demonstrates the worded-idea of "Preciseness", used here as an indicator of the rules or regulations one can go along with and follow, but also fall off, step across, and over. Preciseness can create invisible or unperceived actors in interactions.

More information at arts.mit.edu/choreographing-the-campus