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Finding a sweet spot between radical and relevant.
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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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“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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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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LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
December 4 | Debriefing COP29
Join MIT delegates from this and previous COPs as they discuss observations, insights, and avenues for future involvement in the UN climate conference. Lunch provided. Registration required.
10-105
12:00-1:30 pm (ET)
December 5 | Department of Architecture Fall 2024 Lectures
The Ahmad Tehrani Symposium: Martha Schwartz with Markus Jatsch
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10-250
6:00 pm (ET)
December 5-6 | ACT's Interactive Design Symposium
Organized as a celebration of the artistic and intellectual legacy of Krzysztof Wodiczko, ACT’s Professor Emeritus, with the launch of the book Interrogative Design (MIT Press), edited by ACT alumnus Ian Wojtowicz (SMACT ’12). More information
ACT Cube (E15-001)
December 6 | 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. Lecture list for semester.
Topic: MMI Senior Fellows Presentation. Speakers: Alex Mitchell, David Zipper, Laura Fox
Registration
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)
December 6 | "Violence against women" talk by Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Fitz-Gibbon, from Monash University, is an international expert in violence against women and children, femicide, and the impacts of policy and practice reform. The talk is hosted by MIT Media Lab's Fadel Adib and Signal Kinetics Group.
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E14-3rd floor atrium
1:00-2:00 pm (ET)
December 6 | ACT Fall 2024 Lecture Series
Andrew Neumann: The predictability of unpredictability
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ACT Cube (E15-001)
6:00 pm (ET)
December 11 | MIT MAD Design Fellowship information session
Learn about the MIT Morningside Academy for Design Fellowship and the application process for the next cohort. Applicants should be forward-thinking graduate students with a strong interest in design, sustainability, and social impact to join its next Fellowship cohort.
Zoom link
5:00-6:00 pm (ET)
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 December 13 | WORK-IN-PROGRESS
An exhibition exploring the reuse and upcycling of shipping containers and industrial objects as an interaction between research and practice, past and future by LOT-EK, a team of architects, thinkers, and makers.
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The Keller Gallery
7-408
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 Architecture's Nasser Rabbat, as well as maps, models, academic books, and photographs, showcasing the widespread influence of the Dead Cities’ architecture on later Islamic structures.
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MIT Maihaugen Gallery (14N-130)
Through December 20 | Brick X Brick: Drawing a Particular Survey
The work from seven students in the Spring 2024 Workshop Brick x Brick: Drawing a Particular Survey. Drawings examine architecture’s ties to vision, documentation, and preservation within the racial, economic, and material conditions of the turn-of-the-century South. Focusing on Tuskegee University and Robert R. Taylor—the first accredited Black architect, MIT graduate, and designer of Tuskegee’s historic brick buildings—the exhibition offers fresh perspectives on architectural history and its lasting narratives.
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Wiesner Student Gallery
Through December 22 | Ayamama Swa(m)p: Urban Resilience & Revival of the River Corridor
Centering on the ecology of the Ayamama River in Istanbul, the project invites the public to reflect and engage in open dialogue on sustainable pathways to a more resilient urban future. Designed and curated by Architecture’s Rafi Segal and Selin Şahin.
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Salt Galata
Bankalar Caddesi 11
Karaköy 34421 İstanbul Turkey
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 of 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.
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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