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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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December 8 | 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.
Topic: Dave and Eva Roos Best Dissertation Award and presentations.
Register here
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)
December 8 | Virtual event: Pleasure, Technopolitics, and Development
Join the Data + Feminism Lab in conversation with Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, author of "In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South."
On Zoom. Register here.
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)
December 13 | MLK Scholar Presentation
DUSP's MLK Visiting Scholar Tawanna Dillahunt presents "Inclusive Futures: Transforming technology design through alternative narratives."
Hybrid event. Location TBA. Information and registration.
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)
December 14 | After Dark at the MIT Museum
A night of fabrication, construction, creation, and design with Architecture's Skylar Tibbits.
More information and link to purchase tickets.
MIT Museum
6:00-9:00 pm
Through January 5, 2024 | Atmospheres: Art, Science, and Space Research
ACT Director Azra Akšamija collaborates with Dietmar Offenhuber, Chair of the Art + Design Department at Northeastern University to create a four-minute, room-sized digital animation titled “Navigating the Sky.”
More information.
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY
Through January 7, 2024 | Nomadic Mosque
ACT Director Azra Akšamija's solo exhibition.
More information here.
Black Box of Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Through January 14, 2024 | shore/lime/line/light
Work by ACT student Aubrie James.
More information.
Wiesner Student Art Gallery
Through January 26, 2024 | Living Knitwork Pavilion
Exhibit of an interactive architectural installation that combines textile arts and engineering. The Living Knitwork Pavilion was unveiled earlier this year at Burning Man. It was developed and built by a team of researchers from the Media Lab led by doctoral student Irmandy Wicaksono.
Opening reception on December 14 at 6:00 pm.
More information.
Lobby, MIT Media Lab (E14)
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
Through Spring 2024 | Objects of AI
An exhibition featuring student work from MIT Architecture studios taught by lecturer Marcelo Coelho.
More information.
MIT Architecture Department Office Hallway Gallery (7-337)
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