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Kwesi Afrifa, a senior majoring in urban planning and computer science, wants to create cultural hubs that are inviting to everyone.
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Research in Southeast Asia quantifies how much wildfire smoke hurts peoples’ moods; finds the effect is greater when fires originate in other countries.
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MIT delegates share observations and insights from the largest-ever UN climate conference.
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Dermatologists and general practitioners are somewhat less accurate in diagnosing disease in darker skin, a new study finds. Used correctly, AI may be able to help.
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MIT researchers have developed an additive manufacturing technique that can print rapidly with liquid metal, producing large-scale parts like table legs and chair frames in a matter of minutes.
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Atacama Biomaterials, co-founded by Paloma Gonzalez-Rojas SM ’15, PhD ’21, combines architecture, machine learning, and chemical engineering to create eco-friendly materials.
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DUSP Professor Carlo Ratti named curator of 2025 Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition
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With academic training in ecology and evolutionary biology, Aubrie James blends those passions with art in the ACT program.
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MIT’s program for first-year students helps develop hands-on maker skills, with tools, socializing, and safety training.
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Irmandy Wicaksono works at the intersection of technology, art, and science. He says MIT “is the place to explore these boundaries.”
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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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Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.
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Martin Puryear’s monumental sculpture “Lookout” has turned heads with its novel brick design. Here’s how MIT helped him build it.
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
April 11 | Department of Architecture Spring 2024 Lectures
"How to reduce carbon emission in construction and operation of buildings" with Mattias Schuler.
In-person and streamed on YouTube. Complete spring lecture series.
More information.
Long Lounge (7-429)
6:00 pm (ET)
April 12 | MIT Mobility Forum Spring 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: The insidious problem of selection biases. Speaker: Patricia L. Mokhtarian
Registration.
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)
April 12 | Department of Architecture Spring 2024 Lectures
Celebrate the launch of "Critical Encounters: Nasser Rabbat," the second volume of the Dongola Architecture Series published out of Beirut. A conversation about the importance of homegrown architecture publishing with Sarah Chalabi, co-founder of Dongola publishing house and Raafat Majzoub, editor-in-chief of the series.
More information.
(7-338)
3:00 pm (ET)
April 18 | Department of Architecture Spring 2024 Lectures
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman. Presented in collaboration with the Architecture and Urbanism Group and MAD.
In-person and streamed on YouTube. Complete spring lecture series.
More information.
7-429
6:00 pm (ET)
May 30 | SA+P Advanced Degree Ceremony
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Kresge Auditorium
11:00 am-12:30 pm
June 17-18 | MIT World Real Estate Forum
Registration and information.
EXHIBITIONS
Through April 8, 2024 | Sisters in Making: Prototyping and the Feminine Resilience
An exhibit curated by MArch Student Soal Ajienka and and SMArchS student Deborah Tsogbe, the 2023 Women @ MOT Fellows.
More information here.
Rotch Library Gallery
Through May 6 | unboxed city: critical explorations of ai and cities
Exhibition exploring generative AI's potential role, biases, and limitations in shaping cities.
More information.
East Lobby, MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA
Through May 24 | ACT at the 2nd Diriyah Biennale: "After Rain"
ACT faculty and alumni participating include: Azra Akšamija, Ute Meta Bauer, Joan Jonas, Alida Farid, Marjetica Potrc.
More information.
Riyadh, Egypt
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)
Through Spring 2024 | Stull & Lee: Black Architectural Vision for an Infrastructural City
This exhibition builds the origin story and the city-shaping legacy of the Black-led architecture firm Stull & Lee. Curated by Gabriel Cira '08 (Architecture), James Heard MArchS '22, and Julian Phillips.
More information.
The Designery at YouthBuild Boston
Through June 9, 2024 | Rafi Segal: Architecture Dialogues
Through sketches, drawings, models, and video projections, the exhibition promises a thought-provoking design exploration of emergent forms of domesticity that challenge conventional notions of private and collective space.
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Villa Tugendhut
Brno, Czech Republic
June 17-18 | MIT World Real Estate Forum
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SA+P Wellness Program for Spring Semester 2024
Yoga with Ashley Norwood
Tuesdays 5:30-6:45 pm. Hybrid: 9-450 or online. | Connect via Zoom here
Virtual exhibitions and activities
ACT lecture archive | Connect here
Department of Architecture lecture channel | Connect here