Interdisciplinary design education at MIT & beyond. Programs, fellowships, events & resources for students & researchers to learn, innovate, & create.
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"A good design in structural engineering creates a space that connects communities. It is influenced by the ideas and materials of the local region. [It] has the ability to exist for years and inspire multiple generations." @MITEngineering
— Zane Schemmer, 2024 MAD Design Fellow
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🏡 Meet Zane Schemmer! Zane is a PhD student @mit_cee combining Design + Optimization in his research to minimize the carbon footprint of the built environment by designing efficient structures that consider the availability of local materials. @MITEngineering
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MIT MAD's Roi Salgueiro Barrio alongside architect Manuel Bouzas Barcala have been selected as curators of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2025.
🎊 Read more at buff.ly/40ilwpt.
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Sharing out the Community Engaged Learning workshop series from our friends @MITPKG!
🔹 Nov 12: Clinical Approaches to Community Engaged Learning
🔹 Dec 10: Global Partnerships
🔹 Jan 7: Reflective Practices
Please RSVP here: buff.ly/4fBKCnK
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Join authors Carissa Carter (@snowflyzone) and @scottdoorley from the @stanforddschool for a discussion on their book "Assembling Tomorrow."
November 13 6–7:30pm
MIT Building 7–429 Long Lounge
Cambridge, MA
RSVP and more details: buff.ly/3YHqFX4
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🧬 Designers of all ages are invited to Design Redefined: Designing with Life!
Hear speakers from @wyssinstitute, @medtechawards, @harvardgsd, + @medialab in a panel on biotechnology and design at this FREE event.
Nov. 7, 2024 4–6pm @mitmuseum
Details: buff.ly/40w3FeG
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🍁🎮 The replay of Level Up Game Design is now live—learn from experts & enthusiasts in a panel discussion on the role of identity, narrative, & community in driving the popularity of contemporary games. @mit
👀 Watch at buff.ly/3UhBwUZ
© Michael J Clarke / CSF 2024
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Do you have an idea that can scale & make an impact? Start your application to join MITdesignX 2025! Over the past 8 years, over 80 teams have launched ventures through @MITdesignX, driving positive change worldwide.
🚀 APPLY & + details at designx.mit.edu
@mit @mitsap
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👀 Read @techreview's profile of Skylar Tibbits: Ass. Prof. of design research @MITarchitecture + MAD's assistant director for education. He's developing “4D printing,” where materials can change shape or adapt over time. buff.ly/3MtCfhp
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TOMORROW! 🖊️ ✨ Bob Weis, former president of Walt Disney Imagineering, is coming to MIT for a signing of his memoir "Dream Chasing," on his four-decade long career dreaming up designs for the Disney universe. @mitpbookstore @MITSloan @mit
October 24, 2024 5PM
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🧠 DESIGN + CREATIVITY: Neuroscientist Lila Chrysikou (@drexeluniv, @tsfnc) shares with MIT MAD how creativity can be stimulated for more inventive designs.
Watch: buff.ly/3U56M9C
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Designed by Omnivore (omnivorous.org) — find MAD's fall 2024 posters around campus featuring highlighted MIT design courses, design events, and makerspaces.
EVENTS ~ buff.ly/4dNmZqT
MAD LAB ~ make.mit.edu
COURSES ~ buff.ly/48aQxxp
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"Design should be adaptable to changes and capable of evolving with new requirements and constraints." — Alexander Htet Kyaw, 2024 MAD Design Fellow @mitarchitecture & @miteecs
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Meet MAD Fellow Alexander Htet Kyaw, a designer working in Design + Generative AI for Robotics to challenge conventional manufacturing and fabrication practices.
He is a grad student in @mitarchitecture & @miteecs and an alum of @mitdesignx where he co-founded BendShelters.
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📙 10/16: Join Michael Sheldrick, founder of anti-poverty org @GlblCtzn, for a conversation + signing for his new book “From Ideas to Impact: A Playbook for Influencing & Implementing Change in a Divided World”
🔍 Find details at buff.ly/3zujBDa
@mit_cis @MITdusp @mitsap
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🔨 MIT first-years! Register for the Makerspace 1st-Year Training Program (M1T) to earn access to key makerspaces, common tools, Makerbucks, and a cool new t-shirt!
👏 to J. Osserman for designing the M1T graphic identity + modeling swag!
Details: buff.ly/3ZCCbno
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2024 MAD Design Fellow Lyle Regenwetter, an @mitmeche PhD candidate, works at the intersection of Design + AI to incorporate design requirements (safety constraints + performance objectives) into the training process of generative AI models.
Learn more: buff.ly/3MBowVU
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✏️ Drop by our imagination station at Cambridge Science Festival Carnival @mitopenspace! In this activity geared toward kids and families, learn about low-fidelity prototyping with simple materials.
Details & RSVP at buff.ly/3XgREb7
Walk-ins welcome!
@cambscifest @mit
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💠 Calling all little designers! A workshop hosted by MIT MAD + @minni.space, children (K–2) will design their own sci-fi themed apparel.
Sept 28, 2024, 10:30am
MIT Stata Center
RSVP: buff.ly/4fNFBJL
This workshop is part of MAD’s Power of Design series & @CambSciFest.
ALT Fashionino. The Power of Design to Transform Learning. September 28, 10:30am. MIT Stata Center. Cambridge, MA. Logos Featured: Minni, MIT Morningside Academy for Design, MIT Museum / Cambridge Science Festival.
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🚀 Mateo is a member of a team prototyping Momo, a self-assembling lunar habitat designed to support NASA Artemis.
📸 Courtesy of Mateo Fernandez.
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✨ Meet 2024 Design Fellow Mateo Fernandez!
Mateo is a designer from Quito, Ecuador pursuing his MArch @mitarchitecture and researching innovative building technologies incorporating 3D printing, sculpture, soft robotics and more.
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Join @kevinbethune in a book talk previewing Nonlinear: Navigating Design with Curiosity and Conviction (@mitpress).
↪️ Details: buff.ly/4dEvIMX
@mitdesignx @mitarchitecture @mitdusp @d_d_and_l
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🌌 Combine your passion for space with the power of design in this hands-on workshop for middle and high school students!
🚀 Teachers may register groups of students at buff.ly/3MnafMm.
@MITMuseum @CambSciFest @ragoninstitute @WPSInstitute @mit
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"Good design is a design that is intuitive, well-justified and that other people will want to use." — Maxine Perroni-Scharf, 2024 MAD Design Fellow @miteecs & @mit_csail
ALT Maxine Peronni-Scharf poses next to a Stratasys 3D printer.
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Meet Maxine! 2024 Design Fellow Maxine Perroni-Scharf is an @miteecs grad student working at the intersection of Design + Computational Fabrication as a member of the HCI Engineering Group.
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Come learn about game design and dream up new games! This workshop will include a panel of game design professionals and take participants through the game design process.
Find more details and register at buff.ly/4dXCopj !
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ALT Level Up Game Design - The Power of Design to Transform Learning. September 26 4-6pm. The Ragon Institute. Cambridge, MA. Logos featured: Innovators for Purpose, MIT Morningside Academy for Design, and MIT Museum / Cambridge Science Festival
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✨ In their latest article for @interactionsmag, Marcelo Coelho (@mitarchitecture, @formlabs) and Jean-Baptiste Labrune (@mitmedialab) explore how "large language objects" could provide real-time context and feedback to large language models.
👀 Read: buff.ly/4dKI46m
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"Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science."
🎉 Book launch by @mitdusp, Sept. 9, 4:30pm
⏪ Author Catherine D'Ignazio (@kanarinka) spoke at Writing on Design: buff.ly/3Mmtfe4
ALT Cover of Counting Feminicide against a rock textured background: a square book reading "COUNTING" at the top and "FEMINICIDE" at the bottom, with the subtitle "Data Feminism in Action, Catherine D'Ignazio" overlaying a grayish background where women's names, in white are listed and arranged in arranged around the center.
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📚 Design Library // The Architect & Designer Birthday Book (published @PAPress)
James Biber supplies a daily biography of designers throughout history, centering their style and influences with wit and commentary.
Find at the MIT Press Bookstore: buff.ly/45NHykC
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Inspired by the materials of outdoor and athletic gear, Gihan Amarasiriwardena '11 co-founded @MinistrySupply, a company designing and making performance clothing.
🔍 Watch the full video "Design + Performance" at buff.ly/3SXeVwf
@SelfAssemblyLab @MIT_alumni @mit
ALT Gihan Amarsiriwardena '11
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📣 Attn MIT community! We're excited to announce support of up to $1,500 in funding and publicity for design-related projects big or small.
🏁 Want to be considered in the first round? Submit your proposal at buff.ly/4dbC5qN by 11/1/24!
@mit @mitsap @MITdusp @medialab
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💥 In this episode, MAD explores the intersection of design + typography with Matthew Carter, designer of iconic fonts such as Verdana and Georgia and co-founder of Carter & Cone. "Art is a monologue. Design is a dialogue." — M. Carter
▶️ buff.ly/4fIoxVl
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ALT Black and white image of Matthew Carter in 1986
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📽️ What can collaborative design look like? Watch the replay of "Designing With, Not For" at buff.ly/3Sm4xOd ft.
Richard Perez (@dschooluct)
Surbhi Agrawal (Design Fellow, @mitdusp)
Amy Smith (@dlab_mit)
Aditya Mehrota (@mitmeche)
📸: Adelaide Zollinger
@DRS2024
ALT A handmade device allowing to remove kernels from an ear of corn effectively, usually a time-consuming and painful process made ten times faster and easier. This simple device, which anyone can make from a single piece of sheet metal, "transforms the way you think about yourself and technology," says Amy Smith.
ALT Richard Perez, Amy Smith, Aditya Mehrota pictured among others in an audience.
ALT Image of an audience with one audience member pointing and speaking into a microphone.
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MIT Theater students are invited to create more personal and evocative designs by embracing a playful mindset.
"We call them plays for a reason. It's not only sort of a play on words." — Christian Frederickson (@mit_mta)
🎭 Read: buff.ly/3LMw0Fi.
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ALT A digitally rendered set design by Verose Agbing.
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📣 Apply by 8/1 for support from MIT MAD for a Fall-term event relating to design! All MIT community can apply + up to $1,500 may be awarded per application. Apply at buff.ly/3x5xQNF
@MIT @mitsap @MITarchitecture @MITdusp @medialab @MITEngineering @mitmeche @MITSloan
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Check out the replay of Writing on Design w/ Catherine D’Ignazio and Dietmar Offenhuber as they discuss their recent publications, the role of the book as a design medium, and answer audience questions: buff.ly/3Sm4xOd
@MITPress @DRS2024 @mitsap @MITdusp
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ALT Left to right: Gita Manaktala, Dietmar Offenhuber, and Catherine D'Ignazio sitting in a row for the panel.
ALT Catherine D'Ignazio pictured from the side.
ALT A row of people pictured from the side including Catherine D'Ignazio, Dietmar Offenhuber, and others.
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📚 Design Library // Autographic Design by Dietmar Offenhuber (@dietoff)
"An ambitious vision for design based on the premise that data is material, not abstract."
💡 Offenhuber was a speaker at Writing on Design #DRSBoston2024
Available @mitpress -- buff.ly/4cry5Ce
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📚 Design Library // What it Means to be a Designer Today (published @PApress)
Editors Liz Stinson (@Lizstins) and Jarrett Fuller (@jarrettfuller) curate insights from AIGA Eye on Design speaking to the professional and cultural role of designers today.
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🌙 2024 Design Fellow Mateo Fernandez helped design Momo: a Self-Assembling Lunar Habitat that offers quickly deployed semi-permanent shelter.
Read more at buff.ly/3zftbJP.
@mitarchitecture @mitaeroastro @medialab @NASA_Johnson
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📣 Have an idea for a design-related event at MIT? MIT community members, student orgs, & DLCs can now apply for event support from MAD.
🏁 The deadline for Fall 2024 events is on Aug 1—find more details and apply at buff.ly/3x5xQNF.
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Panel Discussion 6/27: "Designing With, not For addresses design as a collaborative endeavor, one in which users, communities and stakeholders actively participate."
RSVP & more details at buff.ly/3XqFZaj
@dlab_mit @mitmeche @thisisdrs @northeastern @medialab
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RSVP for a conversation with Profs. Catherine D'Ignazio (@kanarinka) and Dietmar Offenhuber (@dietoff), moderated by Gita Manaktala (@sylviamath) on the subject of writing about design as part of @DRS2024.
June 27, 2024 12 - 1:30pm
MIT Media Lab 6th Floor
buff.ly/45d6dyM
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🦪 Learn about the lifecycle of plastic, oyster reef design, and disaster risk management from Design Fellows Elijah Martin, James Brice, and Dení Lopez who work as designers and researchers for environmental resilience.
@bosdesignweek @mitmuseum @mitsap
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📼 Watch: MIT MAD Design Fellows Ganit Goldstein, Liane Makatura, and Lyle Regenwetter present their work in computational design and creating tools for new design workflows + panel discussion. Replay from a @BosDesignWeek event:
buff.ly/4alXHOV
📸 Andrea Garcia
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Hear from three generations of MAD Design Fellows — Clemence Couteau, Mariama N'diaye, and Alexandra Rieger — in conversation discussing their design work centered around the theme of "Bodies."
@bosdesignweek @mitmuseum @MITSloan @medialab @MITdusp
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"Joining DesignPlus was the single best decision I made coming into MIT"—Layla Stanton, '27. ⚒️💍 Check out our video w/ 2023-24 DesignPlus Learning Community students as they make silver rings under the guidance of Rhea Vedro in @mit_dmse's Forge: buff.ly/4dCcF6d
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ALT Instructor holding up silver ring as student in goggles examines the object.
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🌱 Congrats to 2024 Design Fellow Sofia Chiappero and her teammates for winning first place in the @APA_Planning Student Planning and Design Competition in April with their proposal, enTwine!
Learn more at buff.ly/3UPId1i
Image courtesy of the enTwine team.
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"Somebody said this is the best thing they've done at MIT."
Hear from designers Jessica Rosenkrantz '05 (@nervous_jessica) and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg (@nervous_jesse) of @nervous_system in the full interview recapping their workshop at MIT.
Watch on YT: buff.ly/44wZ1NO
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