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Good old fashioned mud: Builders pour concrete into temporary molds called formwork. MIT researchers invented a way to make these structures out of on-site soil.
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A collaboration between MIT professors of urban studies and planning and the Association of Ukrainian Cities aims to empower Ukraine’s municipal leaders to drive recovery after the war.
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Projects from MIT course 4.043/4.044 (Interaction Intelligence) were presented at NeurIPS, showing how AI transforms creativity, education, and interaction in unexpected ways.
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A circular economy in the build environment: A better understanding of construction industry stakeholders’ motivations can lead to greater adoption of circular practices.
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In a new book, DUSP Professor Lawrence Vale spotlights projects from around the globe that help insulate communities from climate shocks.
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New training approach could help AI agents perform better in uncertain conditions
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Station A, founded by MIT alumni, makes the process of buying clean energy simple for property owners.
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Karyn Nakamura '24, a design major, and Alexander Htet Kyaw, a graduate student in architecture and a current MAD design fellow, have been awarded Steve Jobs Archive Fellowships.
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“When we talk about innovation, I think: Innovation for whom? And by whom? For me those are key questions,” DUSP's Catherine D’Ignazio says.
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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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Associate professor of architecture Brandon Clifford scrutinizes ancient stone structures, searching for ideas that can revitalize our building practices.
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Study shows how households can cut energy costs
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DUSP Professor Andres Sevtsuk applies new sources of data to creating more sustainable, walkable, and economically thriving city spaces.
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Finding a sweet spot between radical and relevant.
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A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps people with amputation walk naturally.
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MIT researchers identify facility-level factors that could worsen heat impacts for incarcerated people.
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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
February 24 | SMArchS Urbanism Program Spring Lecture Series: Unworlding Energy
Topic — Power Forever?: On the entanglement of heterosexism, empire, and energy
Lecturer: Cara Daggett
Information and registration
Long Lounge (7-429)
12:00 pm (ET)
February 24 | Spring 2025 AKPIA Lecture Series
Topic: Islam and the Global Luxury Commodity Trade in the 10th Century
Lecture by Architecture's Mark Jarzombek
3-133
6:00-6:00 pm (ET)
February 25 | Department of Architecture Spring 2025 Lectures
New Works: Ana Miljački
Information
Long Lounge (7-429)
12:00 pm
February 28 | MIT Mobility Forum Spring 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.
Topic: Dissecting the remarkable fall of of US personal travel in the 21st century
Speaker: Brian Taylor
Registration
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)
March 3 | Abhijit Banerjee
Exhibition and lecture on the history and future of handloom jamdani weaving by MIT Economist and Nobel Prize awardee Abhijit Banerjee. Joining Banerjee will be Artist-Illustrator Cheyenne Olivier, and Woolmark Prizewinning Garment Designer Suket Dhir.
Information
ACT Cube (E15-001)
6:00 pm
March 5 | SMArchS Urbanism Lecture Series: Unworlding Energy
Presented with the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism
Information and registration
Long Lounge (7-429)
12:00 pm
March 6 | Department of Architecture Spring 2025 Lectures
Rebecca Choi
Presented with the HTC Forum
Information
Register here or watch the webcast on Youtube.
Long Lounge (7-429)
6:00 pm
March 11 | Books and Bites: Exploring technovernacular creativity
Information
Rotch Library (7-238)
5:00-7:00 pm
April 7 | Spring 2025 AKPIA Lecture Series
Topic — Beyond Ruins: Reimagining Modernism
Book launch with co-authors Raafat Majzoub and Nicolas Fayad
3-133
6:00-6:00 pm (ET)
Through May 2 | artfinity
The Institute-wide festival featuring the work of artists from MIT and beyond.
Find the 80+ festival events here
EXHIBITIONS
February 28 | Gearóid Dolan: From Panoctagon to Festival Henge
A pair of temporary site installations connected across space and time by performance.
Information
5:00-11:00 pm (ET)
March 7-8 | Kevin McLellan | States
Videos featuring kinetic typography will display portions and complete text of McLellan’s poem “States,” projected onto an exterior wall of the MIT Weisner Building. Begins at 7:00 pm each evening.
Information
MIT Weisner Building (E15)
7:00 pm
Through March 13 | Vinzenz Aubry | Public Eyes
A generative video installation by Vinzenz Aubry (SMACT '25) that engages viewers with a circle of animated digital eyes that respond to human presence.
MIT Lobby 13
105 Mass Ave.
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
Through April 20 | RugLife
A group exhibition featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists who use the rug as a medium to address cultural issues such as religion, technology, social justice, housing, and the environment. Included is Architecture Professor Azra Akšamija's "Palimpsest of '89."
More information.
Museum of Craft and Design
San Francisco, CA
Through Summer 2025 | Soft City
The work of Amanda Ugorji MArch '24 and Sophie Weston Chien, "Soft City" is a colorful cotton and wool textile that tells the story of the past, present, and future of Boston’s Black residents and the neighborhoods they live in.
More information.
MIT Museum
Through July 28, 2025 | Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights
Spanning the 19th century to the present, the exhibition explores the ways that artists confront human rights abuses and make human rights visible. One of the pieces featured is Michael Rakowitz’s (SMViS ’98) "The invisible enemy should not exist" (2022).
More information
The William Benton Museum of Art
University of Connecticut
Through 2025 | Mise-en-scène: Commemorative Toile (1992-93)
Currently on view at the Art Institute's Contemporary Art Gallery is ACT Professor Green's 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.
More information
Art Institute of Chicago
Ongoing | HOOPcycle
A mobile art installation conceptualized by Architecture's Rafi Segal and artist Marisa Morán Jahn (SMVisS '07).
More information.
MIT Museum
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SA+P Wellness Program for Spring 2025
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