The Edgelands Institute

Join The Edgelands Institute team! The Edgelands Institute is currently being incubated at the Berkman Klein Center and it is looking for a few new team members with fresh ideas, curiosity, and creative drive who want’ to be part of a collaborative team and contribute to The Edgelands Institute’s research work on how the digital transformation is transforming cities’ social contract. This opportunity is only for graduate students.

The Edgelands Institute’s mission is to channel radical collaboration and transcend the disciplinary boundaries between art, policy and research to engage diverse stakeholders to redraw their urban social contract in the present era of mass urbanization, surveillance and pandemics. More information can be found here.

For this project, your role may include: conducting literature reviews; distilling key themes from conversation transcripts; helping with our daily administrative tasks; synthesizing research findings in a summary; and participating in weekly meetings.