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Through a fellowship, Demi Fang documented her experience researching Japanese architecture and craftsmanship.
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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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The ACT professor will produce a series of collaborative and site-specific sculptures that uplift indigenous knowledge practices as part of his 18-month fellowship.
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Mens, Manus and Machina (M3S) will design technology, training programs, and institutions for successful human-machine collaboration.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professors and Scholars will enhance and enrich the MIT community through engagement with students and faculty.
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Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.
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Professor of urban and environmental planning David Hsu explains what municipal governments are doing as climate change accelerates.
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Architecture’s Skylar Tibbits says the key to better designing our cities may be spending more time working and playing with sand.
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu addresses the audience at the 2023 MIT School of Architecture and Planning’s Advanced Degree Ceremony. More on commencement 2023.
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DUSP's Carlo Ratti has co-written a new book, “Atlas of the Senseable City,” about dynamic urban mapping, which uses digital technologies to show the city in motion, charting pollution, traffic, pedestrian flow, crowds, commuting patterns, and other elements of our daily urban experience. Image: Christine Daniloff/MIT
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“What’s really cool about being in the government right now in Massachusetts is getting to see a model as they’re trying to take climate from being an environmental priority to a number one, whole-of-government challenge,” says Jaye.
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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Join us to celebrate the ten year milestone of the LCAU through an exploration, critique, and discussion of the evolving relationship between urbanism, emerging technologies, and climate change.
MIT Media Lab (E14)
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Upcoming Events
November 9 | Department of Architecture Fall 2023 Lectures
Lectures are free and open to the public.
Dream The Combine will reflect on their recent work including their installation at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennial.
This lecture is in-person and online
Registration required
MIT Long Lounge (7-429)
6:00 pm (ET)
November 10 | MIT Mobility Forum Fall 2023
Weekly seminar series showcasing the groundbreaking transportation research taking place across the Institute. Lectures are online and open to all. Lecture list for semester.
Harry Tuller on "Fuel cell powered vehicles: opportunities and challenges"
Register here
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)
November 13 | Aga Khan Program Lecture
Peter Christensen: Dignity Matters
More information.
3-133
6:00 pm (ET)
November 15 | MIT Morningside Academy for Design
Forum: The Power of Design: On Sustainability
More information here.
November 16 | My Electric Genealogy
Sarah Kanouse
ACT Cube, E15-001
More information here.
6:00 PM (ET)
November 16-17 | MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism 10th Anniversary Conference
Join us to celebrate the ten year milestone of the LCAU through an exploration, critique, and discussion of the evolving relationship between urbanism, emerging technologies, and climate change.
E14 (6th floor)
Information and registration
Through November 26 | Venice Biennale of Architecture
Featuring projects from SA+P faculty, students, and alumni.
More information here.
Venice, Italy
November 29 | In Conversation: Rajiv Shah
12:00pm-12:45pm
Wong Auditorium (Building E51)
December 3 | "No Title: Relays + Relations, Works by Renée Green and Sol LeWitt"
Exhibition features works across Green's career including from her time as a student. Green is a 1981 Wesleyan alumna.
More information.
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University
Middleton, CT
Through January 7, 2024 | Nomadic Mosque
ACT Director Azra Akšamija's solo exhibition.
More information here.
Black Box of Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Through March 31, 2024 | 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 here.
MIT Museum
SA+P Wellness Program for Fall Semester 2023
Yoga and Mindfulness
Tuesday 5:30-6:45 pm. Hybrid (9-255) and online | Connect via Zoom here
Thursday 12:00-1:00 pm (virtual only) | Connect via Zoom here
Virtual exhibitions and activities
ACT lecture archive | Connect here
Department of Architecture lecture channel | Connect here