Join Allegra Farrar, a PhD candidate in the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics with the Space Enabled Research Group, for a conversation around American Artist: To Acorn.

Allegra Farrar will guide attendees through the lifecycle of a tropical cyclone, reframing hurricanes as essential planetary processes—Earth’s own language of change. Drawing on her research, developing adaptive satellite observation strategies that listen to the shifting signals of the ocean and atmosphere, she examines how observation technologies can be used to embody particular values: extraction, control, or reciprocity. Connecting Octavia Butler’s Earthseed to today’s intensifying storms, this talk situates American Artist’s work within the lived urgency of reimagining both technology and community in r...