A cross-school initiative launched in 2012 by the office of the associate provost with responsibility for the arts, the dean of the School of Architecture and Planning and the dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, CAST has been the catalyst for more than 31 artist residencies and collaborative projects with MIT faculty and students, including 15 cross-disciplinary courses and workshops, the concert series MIT Sounding, and
numerous multimedia projects, lectures, and symposia.