LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

October 7  |  DUSP Fall Speaker Series: "Indigenous Water and Energy Planning: Emergent Futures in Scaling Traditional Ecological Knowledge"
Speaker: David Anthony Carten, Associate Faculty Member, Schools of Environment & Sustainability, Humanitarian Studies and Leadership, Royal Roads University, British Columbia
3:00 pm ET
9-255 (City Arena)

October 9  |  "In His Shoes"
A conversation with Stuart Weitzman, the founder and former CEO of his namesake footwear brand. Sponsored by Morningside Academy for Design and MIT Sloan Designer Club.
Information and registration
5:00-6:30 pm ET
E38 

October 10  | MIT Mobility Forum Fall 2025
Weekly seminar series showcasing the groundbreaking transportation research taking place across the Institute. Lectures are online and open to all. Lecture list for semester. 
Registration required
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)

October 15  |  "Radical Softness"
Artist Janet Echelman will discuss her new book, Radical Softness: The Responsive Art of Janet Echelman. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing after the talk.
Information and registration
6:00-7:00 pm ET
MIT Museum 

October 17  | MIT Mobility Forum Fall 2025
Weekly seminar series showcasing the groundbreaking transportation research taking place across the Institute. Lectures are online and open to all. Lecture list for semester. 
Registration required
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)

October 18  |  "Grassroots Initiatives in Cultural Heritage Preservation"
International symposium sponsored by AKPIA and AKDC.
Information and registration
9:00 am-5:00 pm ET
2-190

October 20  |  Seminar: International research funding for PhD students: opportunities and strategies for success
Join DUSP's Gabriella Carolini, and Evan Lieberman, MIT political science professor, for this skill-development seminar. Lunch will be served.
Information and registration
12:00 pm-1:00 ET
E53-482

October 20  |  DUSP Fall Lecture Series
A conversation with Kate Gilbert, Executive Director of the Boston Public Art Triennial in a conversation with Garnette Codogan about contemporary art in the city. 
12:30-2:00 pm ET
9-255 (City Arena)

October 22  |  Making What Matters: Tony Fadell
MAD's inaugural Designer in Residence Tony Fadell speaks with Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at MoMA. Fadell, known for his invention of the iPod, iPhone, and Nest, will discuss how design decisions shape technology, daily life, and the futures we imagine. Information and registration.
5:30-7:00 pm ET
E14-674 (MIT Media Lab)

October 23  |  DUSP Film Series: "Farming While Black (director: Mark Decena; 2023)
As the co-founder of Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York, Leah Penniman finds strength in the deep historical knowledge of African agrarianism – agricultural practices that can heal people and the planet. Influenced and inspired by Karen Washington, a pioneer in urban community gardens in New York City, and fellow farmer and organizer Blain Snipstal, Leah galvanizes around farming as the basis of revolutionary justice. 
7:00 pm ET
3-133 

October 24  | MIT Mobility Forum Fall 2025
Weekly seminar series showcasing the groundbreaking transportation research taking place across the Institute. Lectures are online and open to all. Lecture list for semester. 
Registration required
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)

October 28  |  Architecture Fall 2025 Public Program
"Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India" with Ashish Avikunthak. Presented with The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the HTC Forum. Streamed online on YouTube.
Information
6:00 pm (ET)
7-429 (Long Lounge)

November 4  |  DUSP Fall Speaker Series: "Indigenous Water and Energy Planning: Emergent Futures in Scaling Traditional Ecological Knowledge"
In-person and on Zoom
3:00 pm ET
9-255 (City Arena)

November 13  |  Architecture Fall 2025 Public Program
"The Pursuit of Heights: Romanesque Architecture, Aquitanian Notation, and the Office of Sainte-Foy at Conques" with Bissera V. Pentcheva. Presented with the HTC Forum. Streamed online on YouTube.
Information
6:00 pm (ET)
7-429 (Long Lounge)

November 14-16 |  Information+ Conference 2025 
A biennial conference for researchers, educators, and practitioners in information design and data visualization to explore shared questions and challenges in these rapidly changing fields. Registration is open. Information and registration.
Boston, MA

November 16-19 |  Advances in Architectural Geometry: Workshops, Tours, Symposium  
A conference where both theoretical and practical work linked to new geometrical developments is presented. This year's conference is co-chaired by Architecture's Caitlin Mueller and John Ochsendorf. Information and registration.
MIT, Cambridge, MA

November 18  |  The Edward and Mary Allen Lecture in Structural Design
Lucas Epp delivers this year's lecture. Part of the MIT Fall 2024 Architecture Lecture Series. Presented with the Building Technology Group.  Streamed online on YouTube.
Information
6:00 pm (ET)
10-250 Huntington Hall
 

EXHIBITIONS  

Through November 23 |  The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology
An official collateral event of the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the exhibition stages a dialogue between two pioneering research initiatives: Antikythera’s The Noocene: Computation and Cosmology from Antikythera to AI and MIT Architecture’s Climate Work: Un/Worlding the Planet.
Information
Venice, Italy

Through November 23 |  Venice Biennale of Architecture
The large-scale exhibition is the world’s best-known showcase for architectural work. DUSP's Carlo Ratti is curator. Dozens of MIT faculty, students, and alumni will have work exhibited.
Information
Venice, Italy

Through 2025  |  Mise-en-scène: Commemorative Toile (1992-93)
Currently on view at the Art Institute's Contemporary Art Gallery is ACT Professor Renée Green’s installation that evokes the material and social histories of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, while serving as a pivotal example of the artist’s conceptual and iterative approach to installation. Accessioned by the Art Institute in 2020.
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Art Institute of Chicago

Through January 2026 | 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.
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MIT Museum

Through Spring 2026 | Future Type
Research from the MIT Media Lab's Future Sketches group aims to help us “see” code by using it to make artistically controlled, computer-generated visuals.
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MIT Museum

Through August 2026 | The Equator Has Moved:  Renée Green at Dia Beacon
ACT's Renée Green's major solo presentation.
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Dia Beacon
Beacon, NY

Through Spring 2027 | Janet Echelman:  Remembering the Future
This large-scale installation by 2022-2024 MIT Distinguished Visiting Artist Janet Echelman, was developed during her residency at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST). Architect, engineer and MIT Associate Professor Caitlin Mueller collaborated on the development of the piece.
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MIT Museum

Ongoing | HOOPcycle 
A mobile art installation conceptualized by Architecture's Rafi Segal and artist Marisa Morán Jahn (SMVisS '07).
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National Public Housing Museum
Chicago, IL

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