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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
Communities at the Center
At MIT, Musicians Make New Tools for New Tunes
Designing a First Year at MIT
Design + Education: an interview with Paola Antonelli
Grad student combines technology, education, and human connection to improve online learning
Event Replay: MAD in Dialogue
MIT Community at the Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Carlo Ratti
Inaugural Morningside Academy for Design Professorships named
Event Replay: Speculative Climate Design
Merging Design and Computer Science in Creative Ways
Improving breast prostheses for mastectomy patients
Luna: A Moon on Earth
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MAD at the Venice Biennale
May 10 – Nov 23, 2025
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VAMO—Vegetal, Animal, Mineral, Other
AI-Enabled Design of Electroactive Surfaces for Sustainable Cell Culture
Aligning the useful and environmental lifetimes of plastics
Strengthening orthothic and prosthetic care globally
Accessibility of online graphics for blind and low-vision users
Human-AI interaction in generative design
Using AI and Immersive Technologies to Experience the Future Self and Support Sustainable Dietary Choices
Portable Kitchens
Helping Children Engage with Climate Change Through Play
Nature-based solutions for coastal resilience
Smart textile systems
Shaping future designers
Using technology to improve life in informal settlements
Deployable Water Desalination System
Advancing computational design and fabrication through metamaterials
VAMO—Vegetal, Animal, Mineral, Other
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18 Past Events
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Architectural Damage & Creative Engineering
Lecture
Apr 17, 2025
Assembling Tomorrow
Book Launch,
Lecture
Nov 13, 2024
Antikythera at MIT
Lecture,
Symposium
Oct 23 – Oct 25, 2024
A Love Letter to the Unmade
Lecture,
The Power of Design
Sep 25 – Sep 26, 2024
Nonlinear
Lecture,
Book Launch
Sep 25, 2024
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Lecture
Apr 18, 2024
MAS Transformative Design Special Guest Seminars
Lecture
Mar 18 – Mar 19, 2024
Drawn Together
Lecture
Nov 3, 2023
On Wonder
Performance,
Lecture,
Panel / Roundtable
Sep 20, 2023
Design Challenge with Mark Rober
Workshop,
Lecture
May 31, 2023
Design for Future Challenges
Lecture,
Design Across Scales
May 15, 2023
Design for World-Building
Lecture,
Design Across Scales
May 1, 2023
Design for Society
Lecture,
Design Across Scales
Apr 24, 2023
What It’s Really About
Lecture
Apr 10, 2023
Decolonizing Design
Lecture,
Panel / Roundtable
Mar 3, 2023
From Visual Thinking to Artificial Intelligence
Lecture
Feb 21, 2023
Bon Ku: Health Design Thinking
Lecture,
DesignPlus
Dec 6, 2022
Kevin Bethune: Reimagining Design
Lecture,
Book Launch,
MITdesignX
Sep 28, 2022