I had the opportunity to visit the recently opened Merkert Hall Introduction to Chemistry Teaching Labs to see them in action. With 24 students busily mixing and stirring their experiments, I was quite taken by the symphonic texture of sounds emanating from the space and the impromptu percussive performance created by the glass on glass ensemble of beakers, graduated cylinders, pipettes and stirrers. Listen to the video and see if you feel the same way.
Sounds of Chemistry from PAYETTE on Vimeo
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.