🏡 Meet Zane Schemmer! Zane is a PhD student @mit_cee combining Design Optimization in his research to minimize the carbon footprint of the built environment by designing efficient structures that consider the availability of local materials. @MITEngineering
"A good design in structural engineering creates a space that connects communities. It is influenced by the ideas and materials of the local region. [It] has the ability to exist for years and inspire multiple generations." @MITEngineering
— Zane Schemmer, 2024 MAD Design Fellow
MIT MAD's Roi Salgueiro Barrio alongside architect Manuel Bouzas Barcala have been selected as curators of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2025.
🎊 Read more at buff.ly/40ilwpt.
@mitsap@mit
Sharing out the Community Engaged Learning workshop series from our friends @MITPKG!
🔹 Nov 12: Clinical Approaches to Community Engaged Learning
🔹 Dec 10: Global Partnerships
🔹 Jan 7: Reflective Practices
Please RSVP here: buff.ly/4fBKCnK
MIT students! Join an infosession with @mistiatmit to learn about undergrad and grad internship opportunities abroad to develop your design, architecture, or urban planning career.
Nov 13 12:30—2:00 PM
Lunch served in-person Zoom option at buff.ly/3Ynasou@mitsap
Join authors Carissa Carter (@snowflyzone) and @scottdoorley from the @stanforddschool for a discussion on their book "Assembling Tomorrow."
November 13 6–7:30pm
MIT Building 7–429 Long Lounge
Cambridge, MA
RSVP and more details: buff.ly/3YHqFX4
Do you have an idea that can scale & make an impact? Start your application to join MITdesignX 2025! Over the past 8 years, over 80 teams have launched ventures through @MITdesignX, driving positive change worldwide.
🚀 APPLY & details at designx.mit.edu@mit@mitsap
👀 Read @techreview's profile of Skylar Tibbits: Ass. Prof. of design research @MITarchitecture MAD's assistant director for education. He's developing “4D printing,” where materials can change shape or adapt over time. buff.ly/3MtCfhp@mit@mitsap
TOMORROW! 🖊️ ✨ Bob Weis, former president of Walt Disney Imagineering, is coming to MIT for a signing of his memoir "Dream Chasing," on his four-decade long career dreaming up designs for the Disney universe. @mitpbookstore@MITSloan@mit
October 24, 2024 5PM
E52-164
Cambridge
🧠 DESIGN CREATIVITY: Neuroscientist Lila Chrysikou (@drexeluniv, @tsfnc) shares with MIT MAD how creativity can be stimulated for more inventive designs.
Watch: buff.ly/3U56M9C@mit
Welcome 2024 Design Fellow Dení López! A PhD candidate @mitdusp, Dení practices Design Social Justice as she studies disaster risk and governance using the lens of participatory action research (PAR). @mit@mitsap
"Good design goes beyond aesthetics or function; it’s about using creativity and problem-solving to promote equity, justice, and community empowerment."
— 2024 MIT MAD Design Fellow Dení López
@mitdusp@mit@mitsap
ALT Dení López in the passenger seat of a vehicle with a man driving
Meet MAD Fellow Alexander Htet Kyaw, a designer working in Design Generative AI for Robotics to challenge conventional manufacturing and fabrication practices.
He is a grad student in @mitarchitecture & @miteecs and an alum of @mitdesignx where he co-founded BendShelters.
"Design should be adaptable to changes and capable of evolving with new requirements and constraints." — Alexander Htet Kyaw, 2024 MAD Design Fellow @mitarchitecture & @miteecs
📙 10/16: Join Michael Sheldrick, founder of anti-poverty org @GlblCtzn, for a conversation signing for his new book “From Ideas to Impact: A Playbook for Influencing & Implementing Change in a Divided World”
🔍 Find details at buff.ly/3zujBDa@mit_cis@MITdusp@mitsap
🔨 MIT first-years! Register for the Makerspace 1st-Year Training Program (M1T) to earn access to key makerspaces, common tools, Makerbucks, and a cool new t-shirt!
👏 to J. Osserman for designing the M1T graphic identity modeling swag!
Details: buff.ly/3ZCCbno