Published April 4, 2023Remembering Mel King, adjunct professor emeritus in urban studies and planning Beloved mentor and colleague, who died at 94 on March 28, leaves behind a profound legacy at MIT, in Boston, and beyond. News
Published April 4, 2023Greening roofs to boost climate resilience Roofscapes, a startup founded by three MIT students, is planning to build green spaces on pitched roofs in Paris, to decrease temperatures while improving quality of life. News
Published March 23, 2023MIT Center for Real Estate advances climate and sustainable real estate research agenda Projects, publications, and academia-industry networks produce pathways for the real estate industry to address the climate crisis. News
Published March 17, 2023Designing for better lives Flavio Emilio Vila Skrzypek, a graduate student in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, wants to design cities without inequities. News
Published March 15, 2023Where the sidewalk ends Most cities don’t map their own pedestrian networks. Now, researchers have built the first open-source tool to let planners do just that. News
Published February 27, 2023Augmented reality headset enables users to see hidden objects The device could help workers locate objects for fulfilling e-commerce orders or identify parts for assembling products. News
Published January 31, 2023Blue-sky thinking and the next 150-year chair MIT students studying advanced product design explored sustainable chair manufacturing and showed their work in a community exhibition space in Venice, California. News
Published January 25, 2023Changing the World Through Art Erin Genia '19, multimedia artist, embraces traditional Dakota art forms. News
Published January 20, 2023Learning Beautiful brings MIT’s “mind and hand” ethos to early childhood education Spun out of a Media Lab project, the startup offers materials that help children explore computer science concepts through hands-on learning. News