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LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

February 24 | HTC Forum Lecture Series, Spring 2025
"Radical Cartography: How changing our maps can change our world" with Bill Rankin.
Information
3-133
6:00 pm (ET)

February 25 | Lunch and Learn Jonathan Rose Companies
Sponsored by MIT CRE
Information and registration (required)
9-357
12:00 pm (ET)

February 25 | Intuition-Driven Product Leadership with Lucy Wang MBA '12
Wang, the senior director of product for Toast, will share how Toast is reshaping restaurants around the world. Information
E62-262 (MIT Sloan)
6:00-8:00 pm (ET)

February 27 | MIT Mobility Forum Spring 2026
Weekly seminar series showcasing the groundbreaking transportation research taking place across the Institute. Lectures are online and open to all.
Registration required
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)

March 2 | AKPIA Spring 2026 Lecture Series: An Evening With...
“I Light Fire to the Tradition" – Radical Art Practices in 1960s Iraq, with Elizabeth Rauh, AKPIA postdoctoral fellow; assistant professor of Modern Art History and Visual Cultures, The American University in Cairo.
3-133
6:00 pm (ET)

March 3 | CRE Research Seminar
Seminars feature distinguished scholars in the real estate finance field and provide a rigorous discussion platform for basic research. 
Information and Zoom link
9-217
11:30-12:30 pm (ET)

March 3 | Spring 2026 Urbanism Lecture Series: GEO-MATTERS
John May (Harvard GSD)
Information and registration (encouraged for food count)
7-429
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)

March 5  | Self-Housed: Rethinking Design Practice in a Craft-Oriented Future
A lecture with Stephen Burks and Malika Leiper, partners in the interdisciplinary practice Stephen Burks Man Made. Sponsored by MIT MAD and Department of Architecture.
Information
7-429 (Long Lounge)
6:00 pm (ET)

March 6 | MIT Mobility Forum Spring 2026
Weekly seminar series showcasing the groundbreaking transportation research taking place across the Institute. Lectures are online and open to all.
Registration required
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)

March 9  | ACT guest lecture: The Data Center Does Not Exist
Marek Poliks and Roberto Alonso Trillo examine AI infrastructure through exocapitalism.
Information
E15-070
6:00 pm (ET)

March 12 | Spring 2026 MIT Architecture Lecture Series: Jeanne Gang
In collaboration with the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism.
More information
7-429 (Long Lounge)
6:00 pm (ET)


EXHIBITIONS  

Through February 28 | "Feedback"
Exhibition by Aisha Cheema (MIT M.Arch ’27) and Zachary Slonsky (Harvard M.Arch ’26).
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MIT Weisner Student Art Gallery
W20

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

Through March 13 | The Obligation of the Circle
An exhibition by Christopher Joshua Benton SMACT ’23
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Baró O-Contemporary
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Through March 28, 2026 | Treaties on De-Fences
An exhibition by Jorge Otero-Pailos PhD '01 (Architecture)
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Onera Foundation/New Canaan, CT

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.
More information
MIT Museum

Through August 2026 | The Equator Has Moved:  Renée Green at Dia Beacon
ACT's Renée Green's major solo presentation.
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Dia Beacon
Beacon, NY

Through Spring 2027 | Janet Echelman:  Remembering the Future
This large-scale installation by 2022-2024 MIT Distinguished Visiting Artist Janet Echelman, was developed during her residency at the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST). Architect, engineer and MIT Associate Professor Caitlin Mueller collaborated on the development of the piece.
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MIT Museum

Ongoing | Case Studies for Truly Public Housing
Chris Moyer MCP '22, MArch '22 and Suzanne Schindler, a former SA+P visiting lecturer, focus on the Cambridge Housing Authority in Massachusetts examining how the CHA performed a series of contradictory maneuvers to completely overhaul their deteriorating housing stock. 
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National Public Housing Museum
Chicago, IL

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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Virtual exhibitions and activities

SA+P Wellness Program:  Yoga and Mindfulness
Tuesday 5:30-6:45 pm in-person (9-255) and online via Zoom
Feb. 3-Mar. 24 and Apr. 14-May 26

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