Cultural Productions – Building 21

Cultural Productions

In the News

Read about Building 21's features covered in the news.

Article | How Interdisciplinary, Collaborative Projects Lead to Scientific and Artistic Growth

The Abstract, 2025

Report: Building 21 is the future of interdisciplinary education

The Tribune, 2025

Shortlist | B21 at the QS Reimagine Education Awards in London, UK

McGill Reporter, 2025

Ôde à la créativité en milieu académique

Le Délit, 2024

Partnerships & Ventures

Partnering with leading researchers, institutions, and Canadian stakeholders to extend Building 21's unique research reach.

Nigeria Eduhack (2022)

An Educational Hackathon to support transformational ideas in education

Productions

Unique projects conceptualised, prototyped, and created at Building 21.

Poetry and VR: “Scène de la Mer” (2023)

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

The "Matterless Matters" Talks (2022 - 2023)

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 (2022 - 2023)

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

Virtual Open House (2022)

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

Poetry and VR: Ollivier Dyens & John Mac Master (2021)

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

Podcast

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

On Spotify and Apple Podcasts