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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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Finding a sweet spot between radical and relevant.
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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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Faculty receive promotions in the School of Architecture and Planning
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By snugly wrapping around neurons, these devices could help scientists probe subcellular regions of the brain, and might even help restore some brain function.
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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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Where flood policy helps most — and where it could do more.
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Startup helps people fall asleep by aligning audio signals with brainwaves.
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MIT awarded federal grant to support clean manufacturing of U.S. steel
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A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps people with amputation walk naturally.
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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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MIT researchers identify facility-level factors that could worsen heat impacts for incarcerated people.
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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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With the growing use of AI in many disciplines, the popularity of MIT’s four “blended” majors has intensified.
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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
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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Upcoming Events
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
IAP 2025 Through January 31
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
Through February 5 | Druzhba (2003-ongoing)
ACT Professor Gediminas Urbonas and MIT Research Affiliate Nomeda Urbonas are exhibiting their project Druzhba (2003-ongoing) at Palais de Tokyo and Kadis in Paris. Both parts present research-based exploration of the cultural, political, and geographical territories that unfold in a fictional journey along the world’s longest crude oil pipeline.
More information.
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
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