LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

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  | "Out of Frame" lecture:  Quarra Stone Company
A talk with Brian Smith, Director of QLAB, and Alex Marshall, MArch '13, Vice President at Quarra Stone Company. Lunch provided.
Information
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)
10-401 (Fishbowl)

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 27  |  DUSP Fall Lecture Series
Topic: Guiding land use in the contemporary city.  Matthew Kiefer, attorney at Goulston&Storrs and Lecturer at Harvard's Graduate School of Design will discuss zoning together with Sarah Williams. 
12:30-2:00 pm ET
9-255 (City Arena)

October 27  |  ACT Fall 2025 Artist Lecture Series
Artist discussion with Every Ocean Hughes whose exhibition is currently on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. More information.
5:00-6:00 pm ET/MIT List Visual Art Center (open)
6:00 pm ET/Artist discussion in ACT Cube (E15-001)

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)

October 29  |  13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art, and Music: A Conversation
The Media Lab's Opera of the Future group presents composer Jennifer Walshe, professor of composition at the University of Oxford.
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5:00-6:00 pm ET
E14 (Media Lab)

October 31  | 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)

November 3  |  DUSP Fall Lecture Series
A conversation with Maria Pilar Botana Martinez (PhD at Boston University's School of Public Health). Pilar will be joined by DUSP's Mariana Arcaya and Holly Samuelson.. 
12:30-2:00 pm ET
9-255 (City Arena)

November 4  |  Housing, Community, and Economic Development Planner's Toolbox Series
Topic: Wrestling Assessors' Databases 
DUSP Lecturer Eric Robsky Huntley PhD, GISP 
12:30-2:00 pm ET
9-255 (City Arena)

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 5  |  Books and Bites Open House
Engage with recent acquisitions and highlights from Distinctive Collections and Rotch Library, including artist books, rare books, archives, and materials from the Aga Khan Documentation Center.
Information and registration
5:00-7:00 pm ET
14S-130 (Hayden Library Nexus)

November 7  | 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)

November 12  | Advancing the Energy Transition: Making Massachusetts the world's climate innovation lab
A conversation with Emily Reichert, CEO of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. Presented by MIT Energy Initiative.
Information and registration
Bldg 45-23
5:15-6:15 pm (ET)

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  | 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)

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 17  |  DUSP Fall Lecture Series
Alice Brown, Director of Environmental Quality for the City of Boston, and Michelle Danila, Toole Design, discuss transportation metrics. DUSP's Chris Zegras will moderate.
12:30-2:00 pm ET
9-255 (City Arena)

November 18  |  Housing, Community, and Economic Development Planner's Toolbox Series
Topic: Tools for preventing housing displacement 
DUSP Professor Justin Steil
12:30-2:00 pm ET
9-255 (City Arena)

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

November 21  | 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)

November 24  |  DUSP CDD Fall Lecture Series: Economic Equity
A discussion with Marie-Francis Rivera (Aduro Consulting), Imari Paris Jeffries (executive director of Embrace Boston) and DUSP's Ceasar McDowell 
12:30-2:00 pm ET
9-255 (City Arena)

EXHIBITIONS  

Through November 21 |  Weaving Words, Weaving Worlds: The power of indigenous language in contemporary art
Erin Genia SMACT '18 
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SUNY Stonybrook

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.
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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.
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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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