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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?
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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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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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Optimization of Natural Fiber Prosthetic Socket Manufacturing Method for Sierra Leone
Strengthening orthothic and prosthetic care globally
Francesca Riccio-Ackerman
Deployable Water Desalination System
Jonathan Bessette
