Team
The MIT Morningside Academy for Design is composed of multiple entities encompassing learning, making and prototyping, and entrepreneurship activities.
Executive Team
John Ochsendorf
Class of 1942 Professor; Professor of Architecture; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; MacVicar Faculty Fellow; Founding Director, Morningside Academy for Design
Marion Cunningham
Managing Director
Svafa Grönfeldt
Professor of Practice, Morningside Academy for Design; Faculty Director, MITdesignX
J. Kim Vandiver
Director, Project Manus; Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Ocean Engineering; Faculty Director for Research, MIT D-Lab
Ana Pantelic
Executive Director, MIT D-Lab
Amy Smith
Founding Director, MIT D-Lab; Senior Lecturer Mechanical Engineering
Skylar Tibbits
Associate Professor, Architecture; Director, Self-Assembly Lab at MIT; Assistant Director for Education, Morningside Academy for Design; MAD Professor
Maria Yang
Interim Dean of Engineering; William E. Leonhard (1940) Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Associate Director, Morningside Academy for Design; Faculty Director for Academics, MIT D-Lab; Founder and Director, MIT Ideation Lab
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Chris Haynes
Shop manager
Katherine Higgins
Academic-Research Program Administrator
Allison John
Financial Administrator
William (Bill) McKenna
Technical instructor
Roi Salgueiro Barrio
Curator–Director
Jennifer Spungin
Administrative Assistant
Rosa Weinberg
K-12 Design Education Lead
About MIT MAD
MAD Making
Making and prototyping are at the heart of the design process. MAD celebrates campus making, and fosters student maker communities across MIT.
Seth Avecilla
Maker Technical Specialist
Katherine Gilbreath
Administrative Assistant
J. Kim Vandiver
Director, Project Manus; Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Ocean Engineering; Faculty Director for Research, MIT D-Lab
Jess Osserman
Maker Technical Specialist
Oliver Thomas
Maker Digital Systems Architect
Lee Zamir
Maker Technical Specialist
About Making
DesignX
MITdesignX is an academic program dedicated to design innovation and entrepreneurship. It empowers students, faculty, and researchers to build new business ventures and forward-thinking solutions addressing critical environmental and human challenges.
Norbert Chang
Lecturer
Svafa Grönfeldt
Professor of Practice, Morningside Academy for Design; Faculty Director, MITdesignX
Yscaira Jimenez
Systems change innovator, investor, entrepreneur, lecturer
Gilad Rosenzweig
Executive Director, MITDesignX
Lauren Witte
Program Coordinator
About MITdesignX
MIT D-Lab
MIT D-Lab works with people around the world to develop and advance collaborative approaches and practical solutions to global poverty challenges.
About MIT D-Lab