What brings us together during hard times? What makes us want to, or not want to, interact with each other? This all-ages pop-up interactive exhibition explores these fundamental questions about the connections we build across cultures, perspectives, and experiences. Six participatory installations invite you to interact with tactile and digital objects about how we build community and experience things together. Our gestures, spices and empathy connect us. Our physical spaces, soundscapes and clothing bring us together. We invite curious learners of all ages to dig deeper on the science and experience of being together. We’re more alike than we think, and connections are always in reach.
The show included pieces by Northeastern students Olivia Bouscaud, Sebastian Gonzalez Quintero, Isabelle Hou, Lea Lang, Karlee Malcolm, Nicole Miller, Lain Orndorff, Ava Raskin, Jeewon Shin, Lauren Violette, Nadia Youssef and Haolan Zhang.
This was the final exhibition show for the Northeastern University "Interactivity in the Educational Museum" course, taught by Prof. Rahul Bhargava.
The Feeling is Mutual was presented at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery from Dec 5-13, 2025.
Photos By Asher Ben-Dashan/Northeastern University.
Isabelle Hou, Lea Lang, Jeewon Shin
Ava Raskin, Lauren Violette
Sebastian Gonzalez Quintero
Nicole Miller, Haolan Zhang
Olivia Bousacaud, Lain Orndorff
Karlee Malcolm, Nadia Youseff