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Designing for outer space: A new course this spring asked students to design what humans might need to comfortably work in and inhabit space.
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The class — Carbon Reduction Pathways for the MIT Campus — brought students from across the Institute to learn about different technologies and decide on the best path forward for MIT.
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A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps people with amputation walk naturally.
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DUSP Professor Erica Caple James’ new book examines the rise and struggles of a community organization helping Haitians settle in Boston.
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Researchers at the Senseable City Lab, part of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, demonstrate there are significant differences in how much people in the Bronx are exposed to air pollution.
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Game on: "A Mystery for You." A game by Mrinalini Singha (SMACT ’24).
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With the growing use of AI in many disciplines, the popularity of MIT’s four “blended” majors has intensified.
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Graduate student Peggy Ghasemlou now aims to promote sustainability and green investing in real estate development.
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In her new book, DUSP's Catherine D’Ignazio explores how activists have tabulated the epidemic of gender-based murder in Latin America.
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PhD student Lavender Tessmer has devoted herself to several projects throughout grad school, but all share a common thread: an emphasis on fiber development and textile programming. “At MIT, my interest in textiles really exploded and became the center of everything,” she says. Photo: Gretchen Ertl
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Students in 4.500 begin their journey by considering the experience they want to design for their chairs. For example, second-year student Wonu Abiodun (right) envisioned a unique lounging chair inspired by yoga poses. Also pictured: Marco Arias (top left) and Brenda Hernandez. (Photos courtesy of the students.)
Welcome to the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. At SA+P, a potent mix of disciplines and departments fuels innovation and energizes our drive for meaningful progress. Whether our community is designing systems or cities, objects or structures, policies or technologies, we are committed to working every day, at MIT and around the globe, in service to a better world.
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LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
October 11 | MIT Mobility Forum Fall 2024
Weekly seminar series showcasing the groundbreaking transportation research taking place across the Institute. Lectures are online and open to all. Lecture list for semester.
Topic: Safety assessment for autonomous vehicles. Speaker: Henry Liu
Registration
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)
October 16 | Climate Reporting in America
How can local and regional newsrooms help build understanding of climate solutions in every part of the country? Join MIT's newest class of Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellows as they discuss their work on projects for news outlets covering local implications of the transition to a clean energy economy in Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, and Oregon. Virtual event. Information and registration.
1:00-2:30 pm (ET)
October 16 | Writing Together: In-person writing retreats
Structured writing sessions designed to help writers make progress on projects. Open to MIT students, postdocs, faculty, and staff who are actively writing papers, proposals, manuscripts, or thesis chapters.
Information and registration
Barker Library (10-500)
11:00 am-1:00 pm or 1:30-3:30 pm
October 16 | Morningside Academy for Design Fall 2024 events
From Ideas to Impact: A conversation with Michael Sheldrick, Global Citizen
More information
66-110
5:00-6:30 pm (ET)
October 17 | Department of Architecture Fall 2024 Lectures
Speaker: Vivian Loftness
Presented with the Building Technology group.
In-person and streamed on YouTube. Upcoming fall lectures.
More information. Registration required to attend in-person.
7-429
6:00 pm (ET)
October 24 | Scaling Softness: The art and science of Janet Echelman and Caitlin Mueller
Exploring the collaborative intersections of art, engineering, and design with visiting artist Janet Echelman and Architecture's Caitlin Mueller.
Information and registration.
MIT Bartos Theater (E15-070)
5:00-6:30 pm (ET)
November 25 | ACT Fall 2024 Lecture Series
Emilija Škarnulytė
ACT Cube (E15-001)
6:00 pm (ET)
Ongoing | CONFLUENCE: Art, Science, Technology, and Creativity
MIT Media Lab's Tod Machover is featured in CONFLUENCE, a PBS-TV series dedicated to art, science, technology, and creativity
Episode 2, "Material World" View on PBS
EXHIBITIONS
October 11 | Emeco + Self-Assembly Lab exhibit
"No Foam Knit: Rethinking Upholstery" will showcase the latest collaboration with the furniture brand Emeco. The works on exhibit have replaced foam, glues, and assembly in furniture upholstery with mono-material 3D Knitting.
More information
Emeco House, 507 Boccaccio Ave., Venice, CA
5:00-8:00 pm (PT)
Through October 18 | Club Kits
A "temporary club" – by Architecture's Xavi L. Aguirre. The installation is an invitation to celebrate fleeting pleasures.
MIT Architecture Keller Gallery (7-408)
October 15-December 19 | The “Dead Cities” in Syria and their Islamic Architectural Legacy
An exhibit featuring detailed drawings by Francesca Liuni for a book by Architecture's Nasser Rabbat, as well as maps, models, academic books, and photographs, showcasing the widespread influence of the Dead Cities’ architecture on later Islamic structures.
More information.
MIT Maihaugen Gallery (14N-130)
Through January 25, 2025 | Wordplay at ICA Boston
ACT's Renée Green's Space Poem #1 is on view as part of the Wordplay exhibition.
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston
Through Spring 2025 | Cosmograph: Speculative Fictions for the New Space Age
An exhibition by DESIGN EARTH — a design studio founded by Architecture’s Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy — bringing art and science together to examine possible futures where outer space is both a frontier for human exploration and new territory for exploitation and development by private enterprise.
More information.
MIT Museum
Ongoing | 20 Years of Mapping the [In]visible
An exhibit marking the twentieth anniversary of the MIT Senseable City Lab’s work to better understand the evolving relationship between the physical and digital worlds to reflect on the social, ethical, and scientific aspects of our cities.
More information.
MIT Museum
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SA+P Wellness Program for Fall 2024
Yoga and Mindfulness
Tuesday 5:30-6:45 pm in-person (9-255) and online | Connect via Zoom here
Virtual exhibitions and activities
ACT lecture archive | Connect here
Department of Architecture lecture channel | Connect here