Upcoming Events

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

Through May 9  | She Swims in Silence
Haozhen Feng (SMACT ’25) and Zairan Yu’s exhibition integrates archives, sound, multi-channel video, performance, and virtual reality to intertwine the bodily transformations of Chinese women
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Wiesner Building (E15-095) 

May 7  |  Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination
Designers John Dunne and Fiona Raby discuss their new book, Not Here, Not Now, with MAD Director John Ochsendorf. 
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MIT Museum 
6:00 pm

May 8  |  Spring 2025 Seminar Series: Aesthetics in Theory and Praxis
Hosted by MLK Visiting Associate Professor Meleko Mokgosi in conversation with Media Lab faculty, this seminar series will probe how aesthetics function at the intersection of drawing and algorithms, space exploration and the embodied experiences of black subjectivities, music and materiality, and design and knowledge production within the scope of indigeneity.
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E14-514b
1:00 pm

May 16  | MITdesignX Pitch/Demo 2025
Join in person or online for a showcase and pitch presentations by the MITdesignX 2025 cohort.
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MIT Welcome Center
292 Main St.
2:00 pm/Showcase
3:00-4:30 pm/Presentations (livestreamed)
4:30-5:30 pm/Reception

May 18-20, 22  |  Schoenberg in Hollywood 
The West coast premiere of Tod Machover's opera.
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UCLA Nimoy Theater
Los Angeles, CA

May 29  | SA+P Advanced Degree Ceremony
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Kresge Auditorium
11:00 am-12:30 pm (ET)

EXHIBITIONS  

May 9-November 23 |  The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology
An official collateral event of the Venice Biennale for Architecture, the exhibition stages a dialogue between two pioneering research initiatives: Antikythera’s The Noocene: Computation and Cosmology from Antikythera to AI and MIT Architecture’s Climate Work: Un/Worlding the Planet.
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Venice, Italy

May 10-November 23 |  Venice Biennale for Architecture
The large-scale exhibition is the world’s best-known showcase for architectural work. DUSP's Carlo Ratti is curator. Dozens of MIT faculty, students, and alumni will have work exhibited.
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Venice, Italy

Through Spring 2025 | Cosmograph: Speculative Fictions for the New Space Age
An exhibition by DESIGN EARTH — a design studio founded by Architecture’s Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy — bringing art and science together to examine possible futures where outer space is both a frontier for human exploration and new territory for exploitation and development by private enterprise.
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MIT Museum

Through July 28  | Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights
Spanning the 19th century to the present, the exhibition explores the ways that artists confront human rights abuses and make human rights visible. One of the pieces featured is Michael Rakowitz’s (SMViS ’98) "The invisible enemy should not exist" (2022).
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The William Benton Museum of Art
University of Connecticut 

Through August 2025 | The Equator has Moved:  Renée Green at Dia Beacon
ACT's Renée Green
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Dia Beacon
Beacon, NY

Through August 2025 | Hallucinating Ideas
ACT's Azra Akšamija's Hallucinating Traditions is a five-channel video installation that utilizes AI to envision future iterations of traditional fashion. Akšamija's speculative designs blur cultural and temporal boundaries, prompting viewers to reconsider the notion of "traditional" as a construct of the imagination.
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MIT Museum

Through Summer 2025 | Soft City
The work of Amanda Ugorji MArch '24 and Sophie Weston Chien, "Soft City" is a colorful cotton and wool textile that tells the story of the past, present, and future of Boston’s Black residents and the neighborhoods they live in.
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MIT Museum

Through 2025  |  Mise-en-scène: Commemorative Toile (1992-93)
Currently on view at the Art Institute's Contemporary Art Gallery is ACT Professor Renée Green’s installation that evokes the material and social histories of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, while serving as a pivotal example of the artist’s conceptual and iterative approach to installation. Accessioned by the Art Institute in 2020.
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Art Institute of Chicago

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

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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SA+P Wellness Program
Yoga and Mindfulness
Tuesday 5:30-6:45 pm in-person (9-255) and online | Connect via Zoom here

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