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A new book by Architecture's Miho Mazereeuw explains howJapan incorporates more disaster planning into its buildings and public spaces than any other nation.
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How Joseph Paradiso’s sensing innovations bridge the arts, medicine, and ecology. From early motion-sensing platforms to environmental monitoring, the professor and head of the Program in Media Arts and Sciences has turned decades of cross-disciplinary research into real-world impact.
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New class uses anthropology to improve chatbots. The MIT MAD Design Curriculum Program provides funding for faculty to develop new classes or enhance existing classes using innovative pedagogical approaches that transcend departmental boundaries.
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Jacob Payne (left) and Ayah Mahmoud pose with their interactive kitchen assistant, Kitchen Cosmo, created in the course Interactive Intelligence (4.043/4.044). Photo: Maria Iacobo
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Research from the MIT Center for Constructive Communication, in the MIT Media Lab, finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins.
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An MIT research group in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning has assembled a routable dataset of sidewalks, crosswalks, and footpaths for all of New York City — a massive mapping project and the first complete model of pedestrian activity in any U.S. city. Photo: iStock
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A portable ultrasound sensor may enable earlier detection of breast cancer. The new system could be used at home or in doctors’ offices to scan people who are at high risk for breast cancer.
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Delia Wendel’s new book illuminates a painful and painstaking effort by citizens to bear witness to atrocities. That book, “Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty,”is published by Duke University Press and is freely available through the MIT Libraries.
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
March 27 | MIT Mobility Forum Spring 2026
Weekly seminar series showcasing the groundbreaking transportation research taking place across the Institute. Lectures are online and open to all.
Registration required
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)
March 30 | ACT guest lecture: Artist talk with Victoria Shen
Shen is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on sound and performance.
Information
E15-070
6:00 pm (ET)
April 1 | Book launch: Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry
Why are some capitalists seen as extractive while others are believed to be productive contributors to society? Join us for a panel discussion of a new book by DUSP Professor Jason Jackson on the role of morality and legitimacy in contemporary capitalism.
E14-633 Dreyfoos Lecture Hall
5:30-7:00 pm
April 2 | Spring 2026 Urbanism Lecture Series: GEO-MATTERS
Roi Salgueiro Barrio
Information and registration (encouraged for food count)
7-429
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)
April 2 | Spring 2026 MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Speaker: Forrest Meggers on "THERManifesto: Wordplay, Techplay, and Systemic Change in Architecture"
Presented with the Building Technology Group
Information
7-429
6:00 pm
April 14 | Spring 2026 MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Bill Rankin will discuss his latest book, His latest book, Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World
Presented with the History, Theory + Criticsim program
Information
7-429 and Live Link
6:00 pm
EXHIBITIONS
Through March 28, 2026 | Treaties on De-Fences
An exhibition by Jorge Otero-Pailos PhD '01 (Architecture)
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Onera Foundation/New Canaan, CT
Through May 10 | "Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self"
ACT director Azra Akšamija's work is presented in an exhibition that examines how photography has served across time as a tool for self-expression and reinvention, enabling artists to question and challenge notions of personal identity.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Through May 23 | Azra Akšamija in "Rug Life"
Showcasing the work of 14 artists from around the world, including ACT Director Azra Aksamija, the exhibition explores themes of identity, displacement, and cultural memory through innovative textile techniques.
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Pratt Manhattan
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
Through August 2026 | The Equator Has Moved: Renée Green at Dia Beacon
ACT's Renée Green's major solo presentation.
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Dia Beacon
Beacon, NY
Through Spring 2027 | Janet Echelman: Remembering the Future
This large-scale installation by 2022-2024 MIT Distinguished Visiting Artist Janet Echelman, was developed during her residency at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST). Architect, engineer and MIT Associate Professor Caitlin Mueller collaborated on the development of the piece.
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MIT Museum
Ongoing | Case Studies for Truly Public Housing
Chris Moyer MCP '22, MArch '22 and Suzanne Schindler, a former SA+P visiting lecturer, focus on the Cambridge Housing Authority in Massachusetts examining how the CHA performed a series of contradictory maneuvers to completely overhaul their deteriorating housing stock.
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National Public Housing Museum
Chicago, IL
Ongoing | HOOPcycle
A mobile art installation conceptualized by Architecture's Rafi Segal and artist Marisa Morán Jahn (SMVisS '07).
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National Public Housing Museum
Chicago, IL
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Virtual exhibitions and activities
SA+P Wellness Program: Yoga and Mindfulness
Tuesday 5:30-6:45 pm in-person (9-255) and online via Zoom
Feb. 3-Mar. 24 and Apr. 14-May 26
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