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A new MIT architecture design course explores how built environments can both emerge from and reveal the internal dynamics of their geographic context.
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Open Call for inaugural, all-school exhibition in the Met Warehouse — the new home of SA+P.
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Two graduate students in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning have been awarded an Andrea Chegut Fellowship for the 2025-26 academic year
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A robotic arm builds a lattice-like stool after hearing the prompt “I want a simple stool,” demonstrating how the system translates speech into real-time fabrication.
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Founded by a team from MIT Architecture, Lamarr.AI uses drones, thermal imaging, and AI to help property owners make targeted investments in their buildings.
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Researchers at the MIT Media Lab created microscopic wireless electronic devices that travel through blood and implant in target brain regions, where they provide electrical stimulation.
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Resilient Urbanism: Green Commons in the City is a new subject funded by the MIT Human Insight Collaborative that teaches students about sustainable agriculture in urban areas.
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
December 8 | Reza Negarestani: Modeling as Tektological Praxis
Presented by STUDIO:nano and ACT
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6:00 pm (ET)
E15 (ACT Cube)
December 12 | 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.
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12:00-1:00 pm (ET)
EXHIBITIONS
December 10-January 25, 2026 | Encoding-Decoding Constellations
Work by 2025 MAD Design Fellow Rebecca Lin and current researcher at the MIT Media Lab. A collection of mixed-media works, including laser engravings, wood and fabric sculptures, and animated light pieces, explores how mathematical abstraction, computation, and contemporary craft intersect to illuminate the beauty of the source language and reveal a new design vocabulary.
Opening reception: December 10, 5:30-7:00 pm. Free and open to the public.
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W20 Room 209 (Wiesner Student Art Gallery)
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 16 | Information+ Exhibition
A juried showcase that examines the energy transition and its ties to information technologies. The exhibition, supported by the LCAU, MAD, and Northeastern, explores multiple definitions of energy, encouraging participants to consider how energy appears in their world.
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E14 Lobby (MIT Media Lab)
Through January 16 | Amazonian Calendars: Indigenous Data Visualizations
Works co-created with communities in the Peruvian Amazon.
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E14 Lobby (MIT Media Lab)
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 March 28, 2026 | Treaties on De-Fences
An exhibition by Jorge Otero-Pailos PhD '01 (Architecture)
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Onera Foundation/New Canaan, CT
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 | Case Studies for Truly Public Housing
Chris Moyer MCP '22, MArch '22 and Suzanne Schindler, a former SA+P visiting lecturer, focus on the Cambridge Housing Authority in Massachusetts examining how the CHA performed a series of contradictory maneuvers to completely overhaul their deteriorating housing stock.
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National Public Housing Museum
Chicago, IL
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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