Past
2026 Design Fellowship Information Session
Info Session
Dec 11, 2025
Encoding–Decoding Constellations
Exhibition / Installation, MAD-supported
Through January 25, 2026
MAD Holiday Making
Workshop
Dec 9, 2025
MIT D-Lab Student Showcase
Open Studio / Showcase
Dec 4, 2025
Celebrate Metropolis turning 6 years old!
Nov 20, 2025
From Process to Outcome
Book Launch / Author Talk
Nov 20, 2025
Sustainable Making Workshop
Workshop
Nov 19, 2025
Design Redefined: AI, Climate, and the Future We Design
Workshop, Panel / Roundtable, Design Redefined
Nov 6, 2025
Shaping New Realities
Workshop, MAD-supported
Oct 28, 2025
Making What Matters
Lecture
Oct 22, 2025
MAD Reads
Book Club
Oct 21, 2025
Radical Softness
Book Launch / Author Talk
Oct 15, 2025
In His Shoes
Lecture
Oct 9, 2025
Design for our Lives
Film Screening, Exhibition / Installation
Oct 3, 2025
Day of Design: Connect
Workshop, Panel / Roundtable
Sep 25, 2025
Arts on the Radar 2025
Open Studio / Showcase
Sep 5, 2025
MITdesignX Demo + Pitch Day 2025
Pitch Day / Entrepreneurship, MITdesignX
May 16, 2025
MAD at the Venice Biennale
Exhibition / Installation
May 10–Nov 23, 2025
Not Here, Not Now
Book Launch / Author Talk
May 7, 2025
Generative AI for Design
Workshop, MAD-supported
May 2, 2025
Rethinking Who Designs AI
Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined
May 1, 2025
ALBERS x MIT
Panel / Roundtable, Workshop
Apr 30, 2025
MAD in Dialogue
Panel / Roundtable
Apr 29, 2025
Territorial Design
Panel / Roundtable, Exhibition / Installation, MAD-supported
Apr 18, 2025
Architectural Damage & Creative Engineering
Lecture
Apr 17, 2025
Global Commons and New Ecologies
Symposium
Apr 2–Apr 3, 2025
Spring 2025 HPI–MIT Workshop
Workshop
Mar 24–Mar 25, 2025
Gaze to the Stars
Exhibition / Installation, MAD-supported
Mar 14–Mar 15, 2025
Nonlinear, with Kevin Bethune
Book Launch / Author Talk
Mar 4, 2025
MAD Book Club
Book Club
Feb 28, 2025
Speculative Climate Design
Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined
Feb 27, 2025
Learning from Zurich's Co-ops
Panel / Roundtable, Book Launch / Author Talk
Feb 26, 2025
2025 MAD IAP
IAP
Jan 31–Feb 1, 2025
2025 Design Fellowship Information Session
Info Session
Dec 11, 2024
Design Miami: Beyond Human
Panel / Roundtable, Conference, Design Miami
Dec 6, 2024
MIT Energy & Climate Hack
Hackathon, MAD-supported
Nov 15–Nov 17, 2024
Assembling Tomorrow
Book Launch / Author Talk, Lecture
Nov 13, 2024
Designing with Life
Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined
Nov 7, 2024
Dream Chasing, with Bob Weis
Book Launch / Author Talk
Oct 24, 2024
Antikythera at MIT
Lecture, Symposium
Oct 23–Oct 25, 2024
Polimi-MIT Hackathon
Hackathon, Pitch Day / Entrepreneurship
Oct 19–Oct 20, 2024
From Ideas to Impact
Book Launch / Author Talk, Panel / Roundtable
Oct 16, 2024
2024-25 Call for Events
Oct 1–May 30, 2024
Pencil Critters
Workshop, Cambridge Science Festival, The Power of Design
Sep 29, 2024
Fashionino
Workshop, Cambridge Science Festival, The Power of Design
Sep 28, 2024
Planetary Play
Workshop, Cambridge Science Festival, The Power of Design
Sep 27, 2024
Level Up Game Design
Workshop, Panel / Roundtable, Cambridge Science Festival, The Power of Design
Sep 26, 2024
A Love Letter to the Unmade
Lecture, The Power of Design
Sep 25–Sep 26, 2024
Nonlinear
Lecture, Book Launch / Author Talk
Sep 25, 2024
Arts on the Radar 2024
Open Studio / Showcase
Sep 6, 2024
Designing With, Not For
Panel / Roundtable, DRS24 Conference
Jun 27, 2024
Writing on Design
Panel / Roundtable, Book Launch / Author Talk, DRS24 Conference
Jun 27, 2024
DRS2024 BOSTON
Conference
Jun 24–Jun 29, 2024
MITdesignX Pitch Day
Pitch Day / Entrepreneurship, MITdesignX
May 17, 2024
Shaping Shared Spaces
Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined
May 2, 2024
Designers for the Future
Panel / Roundtable, Boston Design Week
May 1, 2024
Open Design Studio at MIT
Open Studio / Showcase, Boston Design Week
Apr 24, 2024
MIT Architecture Lecture Series
Lecture
Apr 18, 2024
Spring 2024 HPI–MIT Workshop
Workshop
Mar 21–Mar 22, 2024
MAS Transformative Design Special Guest Seminars
Lecture
Mar 18–Mar 19, 2024
How to Design a Revolution
Book Launch / Author Talk, Panel / Roundtable, Exhibition / Installation
Mar 11, 2024
Designing Inclusion in AI
Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined
Mar 7, 2024
2024 MAD IAP
IAP
Feb 2, 2024
Designing Experience
Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined
Dec 7, 2023
2024 Design Fellowship Information Session
Info Session
Dec 6, 2023
MITdesignX Pitch Day
Pitch Day / Entrepreneurship, MITdesignX
Dec 1, 2023
MIT Generative AI Week
Conference, MAD-supported
Nov 28–Dec 1, 2023
Planetary Health: Indigenous Land, Peoples and Bodies
Panel / Roundtable, MAD-supported
Nov 16, 2023
The Power of Design
Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, The Power of Design
Nov 15, 2023
Drawn Together
Lecture
Nov 3, 2023
2023-24 Call for Events
Nov 1, 2023
Designing Accessibility
Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined
Oct 25, 2023
Water is Life
Panel / Roundtable, MAD-supported
Sep 26, 2023
Designing the Impossible
Workshop
Sep 21, 2023
On Wonder
Performance, Lecture, Panel / Roundtable
Sep 20, 2023
MITdesignX Lunch + Launch
Sep 13–Sep 27, 2023
Arts on the Radar 2023
Open Studio / Showcase
Sep 8, 2023
OGS Venture Pitches at MIT
Pitch Day / Entrepreneurship, MITdesignX
Aug 15, 2023
Design Challenge with Mark Rober
Workshop, Lecture
May 31, 2023
MITdesignX Pitch and Demo Day 2023
Pitch Day / Entrepreneurship, MITdesignX
May 24, 2023
Design for Future Challenges
Lecture, Design Across Scales
May 15, 2023
Designing Justice
Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined
May 5, 2023
Tomorrow’s Designers, Designing Today
Panel / Roundtable, Boston Design Week
May 3, 2023
Design for World-Building
Lecture, Design Across Scales
May 1, 2023
Making Sustainable Design
Panel / Roundtable, Boston Design Week
Apr 26, 2023
Design for Society
Lecture, Design Across Scales
Apr 24, 2023
Thresholds 51 Launch Event
Book Launch / Author Talk
Apr 21, 2023
What It’s Really About
Lecture
Apr 10, 2023
MIT–HPI Workshop
Workshop
Mar 29, 2023
Decolonizing Design
Lecture, Panel / Roundtable
Mar 3, 2023
From Visual Thinking to Artificial Intelligence
Lecture
Feb 21, 2023
2023 Design Fellowship Information Session
Info Session
Dec 19, 2022
Bon Ku: Health Design Thinking
Lecture, DesignPlus
Dec 6, 2022
The Power of Design
Panel / Roundtable, The Power of Design
Oct 18, 2022
Kevin Bethune: Reimagining Design
Lecture, Book Launch / Author Talk, MITdesignX
Sep 28, 2022
Arts on the Radar 2022
Open Studio / Showcase
Sep 9–Sep 10, 2022