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Fusing science and culture through metalsmithing
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Nov 4, 2024
MakerLodge Becomes M1T
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Oct 28, 2024
Watch Jessica Banks' Love Letter to the Unmade
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Oct 24, 2024
N52 Space Reservation
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Oct 17, 2024
Roi Salgueiro Barrio Will Co-Curate the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2025
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Oct 11, 2024
From Junk Hoarding to Quality Coffee Grinding
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Oct 10, 2024
Design + Creativity: Interview with Neuroscientist Lila Chrysikou
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Oct 8, 2024
Podcast: Scratching the Surface, with John Ochsendorf
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Oct 4, 2024
Event Replay: Level Up Game Design Panel Discussion
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Oct 1, 2024
Take a Public Tour of MIT D-Lab!
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Sep 17, 2024
Large Language Objects
The Design of Physical AI and Generative Experiences
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Sep 6, 2024
Fall 2024: Highlighted Design Courses in the Department of Architecture
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Aug 26, 2024
Fall 2024: MITdesignX Courses
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Aug 26, 2024
Fall 2024: MIT D-Lab Courses
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Aug 26, 2024
Design + Performance: Interview with Gihan Amarasiriwardena
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Aug 22, 2024
Conversations for Beginners
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Aug 19, 2024
MIT D-Lab off-grid brooder saves chicks and money using locally manufactured thermal batteries
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Aug 12, 2024
Design Library, Part 5
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Aug 12, 2024
Design + Typography: Interview with Matthew Carter
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Aug 7, 2024
2024-25 Call for Design Projects
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Aug 2, 2024
MIT Theater Students Learn Design Through the Power of Play
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Jul 30, 2024
DRS 2024 Event Replays: On Design Writing and Engaging Communities
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Jul 22, 2024
Designing for outer space
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Jul 4, 2024
MITdesignX Pitch Day Replay — 2024 Edition
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Jun 28, 2024
The Design Research Conference 2024 Will Be Hosted at MIT on June 27
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Jun 21, 2024
Design + Innovation: Interview with Allison Arieff
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Jun 20, 2024
Sophia Chen: It’s our duty to make the world better through empathy, patience, and respect
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May 29, 2024
MIT MAD is Hiring an Academic-Research Program Administrator
May 21, 2024
DesignPlus: Creating Hands-On Experiences for Students in MIT's Forge
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May 20, 2024
MIT N52's Design Community Comes Together During Boston Design Week
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May 16, 2024
Designers for the Future Event Replay
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May 14, 2024
Sixty Sixty One: From Aluminum Alloy to Wearables
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May 9, 2024
From Insights to Impact: The MITdesignX 2024 Cohort Proposes Ventures for a More Sustainable World
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May 7, 2024
2024 MAD Design Fellows Announced at the MIT Museum
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May 2, 2024
Putting User Needs on the Map
MIT Sloan Design Club and Evan Chan bring Human-Centered Design to the Community
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Apr 26, 2024
2023 Design Fellow Liane Makatura Reimagines the Way we Design and Manufacture Physical Objects
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Apr 24, 2024
HPI-MIT Design Research Collaboration Creates Powerful Teams
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Apr 18, 2024
2023 Design Fellow Alexandra Rieger Innovates in the Field of Omnisensory Medicine
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Apr 9, 2024
A Rigorous Design Methodology to Prepare for Medical Emergencies in Space
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Mar 15, 2024
Curiosity Unbounded, with Skylar Tibbits: Staying radical and relevant
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Mar 11, 2024
MIT Goes MAD for Making
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Mar 8, 2024
Creating an Experience in 4.500 Design Computation
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Feb 28, 2024
Design + Computation: Interview with Nervous System Design Studio Co-Founders
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Feb 21, 2024
Letting the Earth Answer Back: Designing Better Planetary Conversations
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Feb 16, 2024
2024-25 Designing for Sustainability Research Program
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Feb 14, 2024
2023 Design Fellow James Brice Works with Oysters for Coastal Adaptation
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Feb 8, 2024
4.110 Design Across Scales Announces its 2024 Spring Semester Guest Speakers
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Feb 6, 2024
Researchers demonstrate rapid 3D printing with liquid metal
Article originally published in MIT News on Jan 25, 2024
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Jan 28, 2024
Why Should You Have a Portfolio? New Consolidated Resources for Students
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Jan 16, 2024
“Refusal is an Act of Design”: Rethinking Data Ethics
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Jan 3, 2024
Nervous System Designers Join Over MAD IAP
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Dec 22, 2023
Design + Sustainability: Interview with Paula J. Ehrlich
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Dec 20, 2023
Atacama Biomaterials: A Blueprint for Sustainable Innovation
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Dec 15, 2023
2022 Design Fellow Jonathan Bessette is Awarded J-WAFS India Grant
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Dec 14, 2023
MIT Generative AI Week: Creativity Symposium Replay
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Dec 13, 2023
Designing Effective Applications
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Dec 11, 2023
Design Fellowship Info Session Replay, Dec 2023
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Dec 7, 2023
A Q&A with Engineer, Educator and YouTuber Mark Rober
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Dec 4, 2023
Culturally Informed Design: Unearthing Ingenuity Where It Always Was
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Nov 28, 2023
2024 Design Fellowship Call for Applications
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Nov 21, 2023
The Value of Handcraft in the Makerspace Experience
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Nov 7, 2023
Algorithms, Fonts, and Pop-Up Art for Lunch
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Nov 1, 2023
Halloween DIY with Design Fellow Sandra Huffman
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Oct 31, 2023
MITdesignX Extends Its Reach With Seven Highly Successful International Programs
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Oct 30, 2023
Bringing the Environment to the Forefront of Engineering
This article was originally published on MIT News, on October 24, 2023
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Oct 25, 2023
Design Library, Part 4
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Oct 24, 2023
“Designing for Sustainability” Program: Ten Funded Projects
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Oct 19, 2023
Magic and its Intriguing Connection to Design and the Humanities Explored at MIT
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Oct 16, 2023
Biobot Analytics Founders Mariana Matus and Newsha Ghaeli on “How I Built This”
This content first appeared in NPR's “How I Built This”
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Oct 12, 2023
MIT PhD student Jana Saadi Studies How Humans Interact with AI-Powered Design Programs
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Oct 10, 2023
Deblina Sarkar and Shivam Kajale of MIT awarded Designing for Sustainability Funding with HPI Collaborators
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Oct 5, 2023
MITdesignX Call for Applications Now Open
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Oct 3, 2023
MakerLodge: A Launchpad for Hands-on Learning
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Sep 26, 2023
Greening roofs to boost climate resilience
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Sep 20, 2023
Mark Rober Explores MIT's Maker Alley
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Sep 13, 2023
MITdesignX and Project Manus Collaborate to Empower Student Innovation
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Sep 11, 2023
Architect/Urban Planner Uses Technology to Improve Life in Informal Settlements
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Aug 31, 2023
MIT D-Lab 2023 Fall Classes
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Aug 25, 2023
Architect of Change: Justin Brazier Brings Community Kitchens to Boston
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Aug 25, 2023
Mags: The Chess Playing Robot
An MIT Maker Story
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Aug 23, 2023
DRS2024 Boston Conference Call for Papers Now Open
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Aug 15, 2023
MIT Students Win Top Prize for Innovative Aluminum Plate Alloy Design
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Aug 14, 2023
Aligning the “Useful” and “Environmental” Lifetime of Plastics: Elijah Martin’s Engineering Challenge
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Aug 7, 2023
New method simplifies the construction process for complex materials
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Aug 4, 2023
“Growing Islands,” by the Self-Assembly Lab, now showing at the MIT Museum
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Aug 2, 2023
Mariama N'Diaye's Design-led Approach to Governance
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Jul 29, 2023
Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) Transformative Design Tenure-Track Position
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Jul 27, 2023
“Tomorrow's Designers, Designing Today” Event Replay
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Jul 25, 2023
Design Library, Part 3
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Jul 24, 2023
MIT MAD Fellow Improves Accessibility of Online Graphics for Blind Users
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Jul 18, 2023
Design Library, Part 2
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Jun 23, 2023
2023-24 Call for Events
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Jun 20, 2023
MIT MAD Fellow Kyle Gordon Wants to Change ‘Who’s in the Room’ During Product Design
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Jun 16, 2023
Mark Rober Sparks “Playful Anarchy” in the MIT Design Community
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Jun 13, 2023
Redefining Design: Textiles at the Intersection of Tradition and Technology
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Jun 8, 2023
Design Library, Part 1
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May 24, 2023
designboom Announces MIT MAD's Cohort of “Future World-Changing Designers.”
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May 18, 2023
MAD Fellow, AJ Perez 3D Prints the First Building Foundation Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles
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May 5, 2023
The Andrea Chegut Fellowship
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May 4, 2023
Design for Society: “Design Requires Courage”
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Apr 24, 2023
Bringing Design Education to K-12 Students
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Apr 21, 2023
Engineering Clean Water for Communities
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Mar 21, 2023
Designing for Sustainability MIT-HPI Joint Research Program
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Mar 7, 2023
MIT PhD Student Lucy Sandoe Quilts Geophysics
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Mar 1, 2023
The Six Dimensions of Caring for Patients With Disabilities: A Journey From the US to Sierra Leone
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Feb 22, 2023
DesignPlus – A Learning Community
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Feb 15, 2023
“Can We Make the Climate Change Talk More Approachable?”
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Feb 6, 2023
Make Your Own Shop Apron Workshop
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Feb 1, 2023
2023–24 Design Fellowship
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Jan 5, 2023
Design Central
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Dec 19, 2022
Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science 2023
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Dec 6, 2022
New Research Collaboration Aims to Tackle Global Societal Challenges Through Design
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Nov 8, 2022
Developing Community Around Design
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Oct 17, 2022
From Major to Minor, Design Proves Key at MIT
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Oct 2, 2022
A New Academy, A New Dawn for Design
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Oct 2, 2022
MIT’s New Design Hub
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Jun 29, 2022
MIT Announces Morningside Academy for Design, To Be Launched This Fall
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Apr 14, 2022
The $100 Million MIT Morningside Academy for Design Will Launch Later This Year
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Mar 17, 2022
MIT Morningside Academy for Design Created as a New Hub for Cross-Disciplinary Education, Research, and Innovation
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Mar 14, 2022