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Introducing the 2025 MAD Design Fellows

MAS.S60 Critical Matter: Emotive Design from Fashion to Urban Scale

MIT launches Day of Design to bring hands-on learning to classrooms

Discovering metamaterials with extraordinary energy dissipation

Two initiatives awarded MAD curriculum support to transform design education

Collaborating with the force of nature

Now Open: Fall 2025 Call for Design Events

What does a designer actually do?

Is there a design formula?

MIT Gala offers MET Gala some very-MIT competition, including a dress with morse code hidden in the beadwork

Watch the ALBERS x MIT event replay

Cyclical Vision: VAMO Proposes an Alternative to Architectural Permanence

Designing quilts with foundation paper piecing

MAD Community Highlights at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

MIT D-Lab students design global energy solutions through collaboration

The MIT Morningside Academy for Design welcomes D-Lab into its growing design ecosystem

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MAD at the Venice Biennale

May 10 – Nov 23, 2025

Day of Design: Connect

Sep 25, 2025

Design for our Lives

Oct 3, 2025

In His Shoes

Oct 9, 2025

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VAMO—Vegetal, Animal, Mineral, Other

Automatic Example Generation for Babylonian Programming to facilitate Human-centric Domain Exploration

Aligning the useful and environmental lifetimes of plastics

The Design of Sustainable Academic Entrepreneurship Ecosystems for AI-Driven Venture Success

Strengthening orthothic and prosthetic care globally

Accessibility of online graphics for blind and low-vision users

Concrete Printed Bridge

AI-Enabled Design of Electroactive Surfaces for Sustainable Cell Culture

Human-AI interaction in generative design

2D Magnetic Material for Sustainable AI

AI-Powered Startup Design for the Anthropocene

AI-Empowered Architect: Connecting Creativity with Efficiency for Sustainable Structures Design

Collaborative Augmented Reality-Guided Mud Formwork for Optimized Structural Construction in Remote Areas

Using AI and Immersive Technologies to Experience the Future Self and Support Sustainable Dietary Choices

Predicting Functional Effects of Genetic Variants

Portable Kitchens

Improving Human–AI System Sustainability in Health Via Aligned Relevance and Evaluation

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MAD at the Venice Biennale
Day of Design: Connect
Design for our Lives

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VAMO—Vegetal, Animal, Mineral, Other
Automatic Example Generation for Babylonian Programming to facilitate Human-centric Domain Exploration
Aligning the useful and environmental lifetimes of plastics

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