The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University is a laboratory for atypical, trans-disciplinary, and inter-institutional research at the intersections of arts, science, technology and culture. Read more…
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Dead Things in Jars (2025 Maddy Varner Award Winner)
A work in progress by Lorie Chen towards a workflow for capturing wet specimens of dead things (from animals to…
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New Steiner Book for 2024-2025
Download this year’s Steiner Book About the Steiner Fund The Sylvia and David Steiner Speaker Series brings creative practitioners who push boundaries,…
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Unnerved
October 8 2025 6:00–7:00 PM
Join us on Wednesday October 8th at 6pm in the STUDIO for a special screening “UnNerved.” UnNerved is a…
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Teach in the STUDIO!
Apply here (only available via Andrew IDs). The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry invites applications from full-time CMU faculty for…
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Basketry with José Santiago Pérez
October 27 2025 12:00–1:30 PM
Join us in the STUDIO from 12 to 1:30 pm on Monday October 27th for a basketry workshop with Pitt…
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Love Languages: Reimagining English Syntax Trees as a Turing Complete Language (2025 FUCKERY Award Winner)
This project by SCS Student Cassidy Diamond reimagines the syntax structure of the English language as a Turing Complete programming…
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Forty-Four Esolangs: Book Talk with Daniel Temkin
October 6 2025 5:30–6:30 PM
Join us the STUDIO on Monday October 6th at 5:30 PM for a book talk by Daniel Temkin In Forty-Four…
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Ludic Narrans: Stories of/by/for the Fields of Play
October 29 2025 1:00–3:00 PM
RSVP to let us know you’re coming! Since 2024, Drew Davidson has been conducting an exploratory qualitative study on the…
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Fall 2025 STUDIO Hosted Course: Shaping Environments with Dana Čupková (62-315/62-715)
Shaping Environments: Experiments in Geometry and (waste)Matter 62-315/715 (Tu/Th 11:00AM-12:50PM) is a design-research seminar taught by CM Architecture Faculty Dana…
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October 9 2025 5:00 PM–October 9 2025 7:00 PM
Carnegie Mellon University Press invites you to the launch of Time Well Spent: An American Architect in Europe, 1893, a…