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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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The class — Carbon Reduction Pathways for the MIT Campus — brought students from across the Institute to learn about different technologies and decide on the best path forward for MIT.
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A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps people with amputation walk naturally.
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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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Researchers at the Senseable City Lab, part of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, demonstrate there are significant differences in how much people in the Bronx are exposed to air pollution.
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Game on: "A Mystery for You." A game by Mrinalini Singha (SMACT ’24).
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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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Graduate student Peggy Ghasemlou now aims to promote sustainability and green investing in real estate development.
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In her new book, DUSP's Catherine D’Ignazio explores how activists have tabulated the epidemic of gender-based murder in Latin America.
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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
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Students in 4.500 begin their journey by considering the experience they want to design for their chairs. For example, second-year student Wonu Abiodun (right) envisioned a unique lounging chair inspired by yoga poses. Also pictured: Marco Arias (top left) and Brenda Hernandez. (Photos courtesy of the students.)
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
November 7 | Department of Architecture Fall 2024 Lectures
Film: "We start with the things we find" by Thomas Piper
Bartos Theater (E15) Information and required registration
6:00-8:00 pm (ET)
November 13 | MIT Energy Initiative presents: Advancing the Energy Transition
MITEI welcomes Joseph F. DeCarolis, administrator of the U.S. Energy Information Administration, to speak about modeling and long-term projections for the energy transition.
Information and registration
5:15-6:15 pm (ET)
November 15 | MIT Mobility Forum Fall 2024
Weekly seminar series showcasing the groundbreaking transportation research taking place across the Institute. Lectures are online and open to all.
Topic: Sustainable batteries for mobile application. Speaker: Mircea Dinca
Registration
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)
November 16 | Morningside Academy for Design Fall 2024 events
Designing with Life: Catalyzing Innovation
More information
MIT Museum
4:00 pm (ET)
November 18 | AKPIA Fall 2024 Lecture
“The Mosul Gate at Amediye: towards an archaeology of preservation and counternarratives of the past”
3-133
6:00 pm (ET)
November 20-21 | Senseable City Lab's Forum on Future Cities
A forum with experts from a variety of domains sharing research, ideas, and experiences on "how proximity can foster a resilient society."
Information and registration
MIT Samberg Conference Center
November 25 | ACT Fall 2024 Lecture Series
Emilija Škarnulytė More information
ACT Cube (E15-001)
6:00 pm (ET)
December 4 | AKPIA Fall 2024 Lecture
Book launch: Beyond Ruins: Reimagining Modernism with Raafat Majzoub
ACT Cube (E15-001)
6:00 pm (ET)
December 6 | ACT Fall 2024 Lecture Series
Andrew Neumann
7-429
6:00 pm (ET)
EXHIBITIONS
Through December 8 | Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe
The exhibition is the ACT alumna's the first exhibition to present the evolution of her work over the past nine years in which she fuses deep historical research with artistic strategies of color and layering to illuminate under-recognized patterns of activism, resistance, oppression, and societal advances. Boston Globe review.
Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts University
40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA
Through December 19 | The “Dead Cities” in Syria and their Islamic Architectural Legacy
An exhibit featuring detailed drawings by Francesca Liuni for a book by Nasser Rabbat, as well as maps, models, academic books, and photographs, showcasing the widespread influence of the Dead Cities’ architecture on later Islamic structures.
More information.
MIT Maihaugen Gallery (14N-130)
Through January 25, 2025 | Wordplay at ICA Boston
ACT's Renée Green's Space Poem #1 is on view as part of the Wordplay exhibition.
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston
25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston
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
Ongoing | 20 Years Mapping the [In]visible
An exhibit marking the twentieth anniversary of the MIT Senseable City Lab’s work to better understand the evolving relationship between the physical and digital worlds to reflect on the social, ethical, and scientific aspects of our cities.
More information.
MIT Museum
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SA+P Wellness Program for Fall 2024
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