LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

March 11  |  Books and Bites: Exploring technovernacular creativity
Information
Rotch Library (7-238)
5:00-7:00 pm

March 13  |  Department of Architecture Spring 2025 Lectures
Linda Zhang
Presented with the Architecture and Urbanism Group
Information and registration
Long Lounge (7-429)
6:00 pm

March 14  | 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:  Cities, transit, and the future of working from home
Speaker:  Nick Bloom
Registration
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)

March 17  |  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

April 2, 3  | Save the date: Global Commons and New Ecologies
A two-day event launching the MIT-Luma Lab, a collaboration between MIT SA+P and the Luma Foundation to promote research and innovation addressing regional and global climate challenges through bioregional design principles. 
Registration details to follow
MIT Media Lab and ACT Cube

April 5  | Rural Futures Summit
Speakers will represent a range of rural perspectives, from designers to experts in housing and economic development. 
Information and registration
Hosted by Rural MIT, a DUSP student organization dedicated to rural planning.
10:00 am-6:00 pm (ET)

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 (ET)

April 17  | Save the date: Sustainability Connect 2025
An annual meeting for all MIT committees, groups, and thinkers involved in creating game-changing campus sustainability programs at MIT. Information
Samberg Conference Center

April 18  | Territorial Design:  Roundtable and student work exhibition
Organized by Chen Chu MArch '21 and DUSP doctoral candidate, this roundtable convenes four researchers, designers, and educators working across rural and urban contexts. Student projects from the speakers' courses will be exhibited during the event.
Information
Long Lounge (7-429)
10:00-1130 am (ET)

Through May 2  | artfinity
The Institute-wide festival featuring the work of artists from MIT and beyond.
Find the 80+ festival events here

May 29  | SA+P Advanced Degree Ceremony
Information
Kresge Auditorium
11:00 am-12:30 pm (ET)


EXHIBITIONS  

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. Exhibition begins Friday, February 28.
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."
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Museum of Craft and Design
San Francisco, CA

Through July 28  | 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 August 2025 | Hallucinating Ideas
ACT's Azra Akšamija's Hallucinating Traditions is a five-channel video installation that utilizes AI to envision future iterations of traditional fashion. Akšamija's speculative designs blur cultural and temporal boundaries, prompting viewers to reconsider the notion of "traditional" as a construct of the imagination.
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MIT Museum

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.
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MIT Museum

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 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

Ongoing | HOOPcycle 
A mobile art installation conceptualized by Architecture's Rafi Segal and artist Marisa Morán Jahn (SMVisS '07).
More information
National Public Housing Museum
Chicago, IL

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SA+P Wellness Program
Yoga and Mindfulness
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