Interactive Sculpture Unveiling

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 5 p.m., Student Center Lobby (W20-First Floor), where instructor Jared Berezin, co-chair of the Increase Help-Seeking Working Group, new Head of House at Random Hall, and MIT instructor in Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication (WRAP program), will unveil an interactive sculpture he commissioned, using a MindHandHeart Innovation Fund grant.

The glass sculpture titled Helping You, Helping Others, will be installed in the W20 Student Center lobby in mid-to-late September. It is designed to work with tokens distributed in various service offices to encourage help-seeking. Berezin proposed “a participatory sculpture [that] will showcase students’ help-seeking efforts and inspire those who need help to reach out.” His plan includes offering tokens to the estimated 1,700 students who visit Mental Health & Counseling and approximately 5,000 who visit S-Cubed (Student Support Services).

Students will be on hand at the unveiling to deposit the first tokens into the sculpture. Light refreshments will be served. The unveiling occurs during National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and is part of many awareness-raising efforts on campus.