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“When we talk about innovation, I think: Innovation for whom? And by whom? For me those are key questions,” DUSP's Catherine D’Ignazio says.
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Finding a sweet spot between radical and relevant.
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Station A, founded by MIT alumni, makes the process of buying clean energy simple for property owners.
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Karyn Nakamura '24, a design major, and Alexander Htet Kyaw, a graduate student in architecture and a current MAD design fellow, have been awarded Steve Jobs Archive Fellowships.
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Study shows how households can cut energy costs
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Designing for outer space: A new course this spring asked students to design what humans might need to comfortably work in and inhabit space.
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In a new book, DUSP Professor Lawrence Vale spotlights projects from around the globe that help insulate communities from climate shocks.
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A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps people with amputation walk naturally.
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DUSP Professor Andres Sevtsuk applies new sources of data to creating more sustainable, walkable, and economically thriving city spaces.
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Startup helps people fall asleep by aligning audio signals with brainwaves.
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MIT researchers identify facility-level factors that could worsen heat impacts for incarcerated people.
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By snugly wrapping around neurons, these devices could help scientists probe subcellular regions of the brain, and might even help restore some brain function.
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Associate professor of architecture Brandon Clifford scrutinizes ancient stone structures, searching for ideas that can revitalize our building practices.
Welcome to the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. At SA+P, a potent mix of disciplines and departments fuels innovation and energizes our drive for meaningful progress. Whether our community is designing systems or cities, objects or structures, policies or technologies, we are committed to working every day, at MIT and around the globe, in service to a better world.
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LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
February 4 | Book talk: Climate Justice and the University
Author Jennie Stephens reimagines the potential of higher education to advance human well-being and promote ecological health. Introduced by Architecture's John Fernandez.
Stata Center (room 141)
Information and registration
4:30-6:00 pm
February 7 | MIT Mobility Forum Spring 2025
Weekly seminar series showcasing the groundbreaking transportation research taking place across the Institute. Lectures are online and open to all. Lecture list for semester.
Topic: Preparing for Battery Electric Bus Public Transport: Modeling Tools and Implementation Decision Making Support. Speaker: Constantinos Antonio.
Registration
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)
February 19 | Architectural Record: Sustainability in practice
Architectural Record's annual meeting will feature several MIT Architecture faculty. Open to architects, engineers, and designers. Registration is complimentary.
Information and registration
MIT Media Lab
4:30-6:00 pm
February 24 | Spring 2025 AKPIA Lecture Series
Topic: Islam and the Global Luxury Commodity Trade in the 10th Century
Lecture by Architecture's Mark Jarzombek
3-133
6:00-6:00 pm (ET)
EXHIBITIONS
Through February 5 | Druzhba (2003-ongoing)
ACT Professor Gediminas Urbonas and MIT Research Affiliate Nomeda Urbonas are exhibiting their project Druzhba (2003-ongoing) at Palais de Tokyo and Kadis in Paris. Both parts present research-based exploration of the cultural, political, and geographical territories that unfold in a fictional journey along the world’s longest crude oil pipeline.
More information.
Through Spring 2025 | Cosmograph: Speculative Fictions for the New Space Age
An exhibition by DESIGN EARTH — a design studio founded by Architecture’s Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy — bringing art and science together to examine possible futures where outer space is both a frontier for human exploration and new territory for exploitation and development by private enterprise.
More information.
MIT Museum
Through April 20 | RugLife
A group exhibition featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists who use the rug as a medium to address cultural issues such as religion, technology, social justice, housing, and the environment. Included is Architecture Professor Azra Akšamija's "Palimpsest of '89."
More information.
Museum of Craft and Design
San Francisco, CA
Through Summer 2025 | Soft City
The work of Amanda Ugorji MArch '24 and Sophie Weston Chien, "Soft City" is a colorful cotton and wool textile that tells the story of the past, present, and future of Boston’s Black residents and the neighborhoods they live in.
More information.
MIT Museum
Through July 28, 2025 | Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights
Spanning the 19th century to the present, the exhibition explores the ways that artists confront human rights abuses and make human rights visible. One of the pieces featured is Michael Rakowitz’s (SMViS ’98) "The invisible enemy should not exist" (2022).
More information
The William Benton Museum of Art
University of Connecticut
Through 2025 | Mise-en-scène: Commemorative Toile (1992-93)
Currently on view at the Art Institute's Contemporary Art Gallery is ACT Professor Green's Renée Green’s installation that evokes the material and social histories of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, while serving as a pivotal example of the artist’s conceptual and iterative approach to installation. Accessioned by the Art Institute in 2020.
More information
Art Institute of Chicago
Ongoing | HOOPcycle
A mobile art installation conceptualized by Architecture's Rafi Segal and artist Marisa Morán Jahn (SMVisS '07).
More information.
MIT Museum
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SA+P Wellness Program for Spring 2025
Yoga and Mindfulness
Tuesday 5:30-6:45 pm in-person (9-255) and online | Connect via Zoom here
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ACT lecture archive | Connect here
Department of Architecture lecture channel | Connect here