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MIT is renovating the Metropolitan Warehouse to create a vibrant interdisciplinary hub for design and education.

Announcement

Award

Mar 17, 2025

MAD's founding director John Ochsendorf was named in the ‘Protectors’ category of the Eames Institute for Infinite Curiosity's Curious 100 list.

Highlight

Student project

Mar 13, 2025

MIT First-Year student Lucinda Sun, a member of the DesignPlus Learning Community, creates experiences exploring light and color

Video

Event replay

Mar 05, 2025

Can Massachusetts learn from Zurich's housing co-ops? Watch the replay.

Story

Design Course

Feb 24, 2025

4.360 “Transversal Design for Social Impact” encourage students to self-reflect and ask imaginative design questions.

Announcement

Faculty

Feb 18, 2025

MAD Director, Professor Maria Yang, and Professor Kenneth Oye are honored as “Committed to Caring” for their mentorship of graduate students.

Story

Design Research

Feb 12, 2025

Designing for extreme environments: Lessons from the Highlands with Mich Lin

Announcement

Call for Design Curriculum

Feb 10, 2025

Answer the Call for Design Curriculum before Feb 24.

News

Student blog post

Jan 27, 2025

Discovering the freedom and fun of art without rules: Alex Brady-Miné's glass-making journey

Video

Design + ... series

Jan 22, 2025

Design + Curiosity: Interview with engineer and roboticist Jessica Banks

Announcement

Call for Teachers

Jan 15, 2025

Call for Teachers: Innovative Curriculum Development

News

Large Language Models

Jan 14, 2025

MIT Students' Work Redefine Human-AI Collaboration at NeurIPS

Video

Jan 07, 2025

Watch “Questions as Tools,” a short movie featuring MAD's Director John Ochsendorf

Story

Design Research

Dec 19, 2024

Andres Sevtsuk applies new sources of data to creating more sustainable, walkable, and economically thriving city spaces.

Story

Design Fellow

Dec 17, 2024

2023 Design Fellow ZhiYi Liang: Tackling the energy revolution, one sector at a time

Design Miami

Event replay

Dec 12, 2024

Watch the replay of Beyond Human: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Design from Design Miami

Design Fellows

Story

Dec 11, 2024

MAD Fellow Zane Schemmer Minimizes Carbon Footprint of Structures

Announcement

Call for Applications

Dec 08, 2024

IAP in France: MITdesignX LUMA Design Innovation Studio Call for Applications

Image courtesy of Atelier LUMA © Victor Picon, Victor & Simon

Announcement

Call for Applications

Nov 27, 2024

The 2025 MAD Design Fellowship Call for Applications is now open

Highlight

Book release

Nov 26, 2024

Betting on Curiosity: Kevin Bethune shares insights with MIT design community

Interview

MIT News

Nov 22, 2024

3 Questions: Claire Wang on training the brain for memory sports

Story

MIT News

Nov 18, 2024

“Mens et manus” in Guatemala with the ASPIRE program.

Story

MIT News

Nov 14, 2024

Skylar Tibbits: Finding a sweet spot between radical and relevant

Video

Event Replay

Nov 12, 2024

Watch the replay of From Ideas to Impact: a conversation with Global Citizen Co-Founder Michael Sheldrick

Story

Article

Nov 04, 2024

Fusing science and culture through metalsmithing: Rhea Vedro helps students discover the power of working with their own hands.

Announcement

Highlight

Oct 28, 2024

The MakerLodge Training Program Becomes M1T.

Video

Event Replay

Oct 24, 2024

Watch Jessica Banks' Love Letter to the Unmade in this event replay.

Announcement

Highlight

Oct 15, 2024

Roi Salgueiro Barrio Will Co-Curate the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2025.

Highlight + Q&A

Maker project

Oct 10, 2024

From Junk Hoarding to Quality Coffee Grinding with Prajwal Mahesh '22 SM '24.

Video

Design + ... Interview

Oct 08, 2024

“I see design as a signature aspect of human cognition.” Design + Creativity: an interview with neuroscientist Lila Chrysikou.

Podcast

Oct 04, 2024

Podcast: Listen to Jarrett Fuller interviewing MAD's founding director John Ochsendorf in Scratching the Surface

Video

Event Replay

Oct 01, 2024

Event Replay: Watch the Level Up Game Design Panel Discussion

Announcement

Public Tours

Sep 17, 2024

Interested in how MIT D-Lab designs for a more equitable world? Take one of their public tours!

Research

Article

Sep 06, 2024

Large Language Objects: The Design of Physical AI and Generative Experiences, by Marcelo Coelho and Jean-Baptiste Labrune

Announcement

Fall 2024 Courses

Sep 02, 2025

Take an MIT D-LAB class to become an agent of global change!

Announcement

Fall 2024 Courses

Aug 30, 2024

Learn more about MITdesignX Fall 2024 courses.

Announcement

Fall 2024 Courses

Aug 28, 2024

Learn more about MIT Architecture's Design Minor / Major

Video

Design + ...

Aug 22, 2024

Design + Performance: Interview with Gihan Amarasiriwardena

Highlight

Student Project

Aug 19, 2024

A book attempting to parody, pick apart, and find comfort in the patterns of everyday conversation.

Story

MIT D-Lab | MIT News

Aug 13, 2024

MIT D-Lab off-grid brooder saves chicks and money using locally manufactured thermal batteries

Video

Interview

Aug 07, 2024

Design + Typography: An Interview with Type Designer Matthew Carter, Creator of Georgia and Verdana Fonts

News

Call for Projects

Aug 02, 2024

MAD's 2024-25 Call for Design Projects is Open.

News

Story

Jul 30, 2024

MIT Theater Students Learn Design Through the Power of Play.

News

Call for Event

Jul 26, 2024

Don't forget our Call for Design Events! MIT-wide applications welcome.

News

Event Replay

Jul 22, 2024

Missed MAD's 2024 Design Research Conference Events? Watch the Replay.

News

Story

Jul 04, 2024

Designing for outer space

News

Event replay

Jun 28, 2024

MITdesignX Pitch Day Event Replay — 2024 Edition

News

Video

Jun 20, 2024

Design + Innovation: An Interview with Allison Arieff, Editorial Director of Print for MIT Technology Review

News

Events

Jun 17, 2024

DRS 2024 — Design Research Society Conference Hosted at MIT on June 27, 2024.

News

Opportunities

May 31, 2024

The 2024-25 Call for Design Events is Now Open. Read More and Apply

News

Announcement

May 29, 2024

New MIT-LUMA Lab created to address climate challenges in the Mediterranean region

MIT News

Stories

May 29, 2024

Sophia Chen: It’s Our Duty to Make the World Better Through Empathy, Patience, and Respect.

News

Opportunity

May 21, 2024

MIT MAD is Hiring an Academic-Research Program Administrator

News

Video

May 20, 2024

DesignPlus: Creating Hands-On Experiences for Students in MIT's Forge

News

Video

May 17, 2024

Missed Our Designers for the Future Event? Watch the Replay.

News

Highlights

May 16, 2024

MIT N52's Design Community Comes Together During Boston Design Week.

News

Stories

May 10, 2024

Sixty Sixty One: From Aluminum Alloy to Wearables, and How Students Leveraged Their Making Skills to Create One-Of-A-Kind Outfits.

News

Stories

May 07, 2024

From Insights to Impact: The MITdesignX 2024 Cohort Proposes Ventures for a More Sustainable World.

News

Announcements

May 02, 2024

MAD Announces its 2024 Design Fellows at the MIT Museum.

News

Event Highlights

Apr 26, 2024

Putting User Needs on the Map: MIT Sloan Design Club and Evan Chan bring Human-Centered Design to the Community

News

Video

Apr 24, 2024

2023 Design Fellow Liane Makatura Reimagines the Way we Design and Manufacture Physical Objects Thanks to Metamaterials.

News

Call for Applications

Apr 18, 2024

HPI-MIT Design Research Collaboration Creates Powerful Teams. Application deadline is June 3.

News

From the Archive

Apr 16, 2024

Architect of Change: Justin Brazier Brings Community Kitchens to Boston.

News

Video

Apr 09, 2024

2023 Design Fellow Alexandra Rieger Innovates in the Field of Omnisensory Medicine.

News

DRS24

Mar 29, 2024

Call for Volunteers: DRS24 Conference in Boston Welcomes Applications Until April 9.

News

Climate

Mar 27, 2024

Climate Science, Risk & Solutions: Read the Latest Climate Primer by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative.

News

Design Fellows

Mar 15, 2024

Design Fellow Allison Porter Employs a Rigorous Design Methodology to Prepare for Medical Emergencies in Space.

News

Podcast

Mar 11, 2024

Listen to the Podcast Curiosity Unbounded, in which President Sally Kornbluth Chats with Prof. Skylar Tibbits About what Makes Design at MIT Unique.

Highlights

Making Gallery

Mar 08, 2024

MIT Goes MAD for Making: Check Out Image Galleries of our IAP Workshops.

Announcements

Trainings

Mar 04, 2024

Interested in Using the N52 Fabrication Shop? Read About Available Equipment and Sign Up for an Orientation Training.

News

Design Courses

Mar 01, 2024

Creating an Experience in 4.500 Design Computation: the Course by Prof. Larry Sass Teaches Students the Thoughtful and Experimental Process of Design

Video

Feb 28, 2024

Design + Computation: Watch an Interview with Nervous System Design Studio Co-Founders, Jessica Rosenkrantz '05 and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg.

Events

Feb 23, 2024

Explore Chile's 70s design revolution with a book launch by Hugo Palmarola, Eden Medina, and Pedro Ignacio Alonso + a video installation / March 11, 5:30pm.

Fellows

Stories

Feb 16, 2024

Letting the Earth Answer Back: Designing Better Planetary Conversations. A Profile on Design Fellow Chen Chu and his Work on Floodplains.

Research

Call for Applications

Feb 14, 2024

2024-25 Designing for Sustainability Research Program: Call for Applications Now Open

Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. Image: Reinhardt & Sommer

Fellows

Video

Feb 07, 2024

2023 Design Fellow James Brice Works with Oysters for Coastal Adaptation.

MIT News

Story

Feb 05, 2024

Researchers Demonstrate Rapid 3D Printing with Liquid Metal.

News

Resources

Jan 16, 2024

Why Should You Have a Portfolio? Access New Consolidated Resources for Students.

News

Event

Jan 08, 2024

Join MITdesignX's Climate Solutions Ideathon over IAP.

News

Design Fellows

Jan 04, 2024

“Refusal is an Act of Design”: How 2022 Design Fellow Jonathan Zong is Rethinking Data Ethics

News

Workshop

Dec 22, 2023

Nervous System: Designers Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg Will Join MIT MAD Over IAP for a Week-Long Workshop

News

Video

Dec 20, 2023

How Do You Design for Sustainability? Watch this Interview with Paula J. Ehrlich, President of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation.

News

Interview

Dec 15, 2023

A Blueprint for Sustainable Innovation, Atacama Biomaterials produces inexpensive, regionally sourced & environmentally friendly bio-based polymers.

News

Announcement

Dec 14, 2023

2022 Design Fellow Jonathan Bessette is Awarded J-WAFS India Grant with project partner Gokul Sampath.

News

Event Replay

Dec 13, 2023

MIT Generative AI Week: Watch the Creativity Symposium Replay

News

Story

Dec 11, 2023

Designing Effective Applications: MIT graduate architecture students offer guidance to potential applicants from underrepresented groups.

News

Video

Dec 07, 2023

Did You Miss the Design Fellowship Info Session? Watch the Replay.

News

Video

Dec 04, 2023

A video Q&A with Engineer, Educator and YouTuber Mark Rober.

News

Design Fellows

Nov 28, 2023

Culturally Informed Design: Design Fellow Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar Is Unearthing Ingenuity Where It Always Was

News

Call for Applications

Nov 21, 2023

2024 Design Fellowship Call for Applications Now Open!

News

Event

Nov 13, 2023

The Power of Design: Designing Climate Futures / Watch the Full Replay.

News

Project Manus

Nov 07, 2023

The Value of Handcraft in the Makerspace Experience.

News

DesignPlus

Oct 27, 2023

Algorithms, Fonts, and Pop-Up Art for Lunch.

News

Design Fellows

Oct 31, 2023

Halloween DIY with Design Fellow Sandra Huffman

News

MITdesignX

Oct 30, 2023

MITdesignX Extends Its Reach With Seven Highly Successful International Programs.

News

MIT News

Oct 25, 2023

Desirée Plata is on a lifelong mission to make sustainability a bigger factor in design decisions.

News

Oct 24, 2023

Design Library Part 4: most popular books and articles in the MIT MAD design community.

News

Announcements

Oct 19, 2023

Discover the Ten Projects Funded by the Designing for Sustainability joint MIT-HPI Research Program.

News

Events

Oct 18, 2023

Magic and its Intriguing Connection to Design and the Humanities Explored at MIT.

News

Press

Oct 12, 2023

Biobot Analytics Founders Mariana Matus and Newsha Ghaeli on “How I Built This” podcast.

News

Fellows

Oct 10, 2023

MIT PhD student Jana Saadi Studies How Humans Interact With AI-Powered Design Programs.

News

Announcement

Oct 05, 2023

Deblina Sarkar and Shivam Kajale of MIT awarded Designing for Sustainability Funding with HPI Collaborators.

News

Call for Applications

Oct 03, 2023

MITdesignX Call for Applications Now Open: Apply Before Nov. 1

News

Event

Sep 28, 2023

MAD's annual forum, is dedicated to Designing Climate Futures. Save the Date, Nov 15, for workshops and talks by 4 inspiring speakers.

News

Training

Sep 25, 2023

MakerLodge is an extracurricular training program teaching making skills open to all MIT first-year undergraduate students.

News

MIT News

Sep 20, 2023

Greening Roofs to Boost Climate Resilience: a startup founded by three MIT SA+P students and incubated by MITdesignX is planning to build green spaces on pitched roofs in Paris.

News

Video

Sep 13, 2023

Mark Rober Explores MIT's Maker Alley. What does he find? Toys, glass experiments, engines, welding, and drone hacks!

News

Highlight

Sep 11, 2023

MITdesignX and Project Manus Collaborate to Empower Student Innovation Through Accessible Prototyping.

News

Event

Aug 30, 2023

Are you a first-year student at MIT?
Head to the Academic Expo today, 1-3pm, to learn about shops, training, and resources to get started with making 🛠️.

News

Design fellows

Aug 30, 2023

Architect/Urban Planner and MAD Fellow Surbhi Agrawal Uses Technology to Improve Life in Informal Settlements

News

Classes

Aug 25, 2023

Take an MIT D-Lab class and become an effective agent of global change while at MIT and beyond.

News

Video

Aug 23, 2023

Fancy a game of chess? “Mags” is a chess-playing robot designed and built by MIT students using Project Manus makerspaces and resources.

News

Call for Submissions

Aug 22, 2023

The Design Research Society invites paper submissions in an open call on the occasion of the DRS2024 conference, which will take place in Boston this June.

News

MIT School of Engineering

Aug 14, 2023

Undergraduate students from the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at MIT win top prize for innovative aluminum plate alloy design.

Events

MITdesignX

Aug 10, 2023

Join fellows from Our Generation Speaks, entrepreneurs from Israel and Palestine, for their venture pitches. Monday August 14, at 12pm .

News

Design fellows

Aug 07, 2023

Aligning the “Useful” and “Environmental” Lifetime of Plastics: Elijah Martin’s Engineering Challenge

News

Design fellows

Aug 04, 2023

MAD fellow Liane Makatura, MIT electrical engineering and computer science PhD, co-developed a method to quickly design cellular metamaterial structures with unique mechanical properties.

Exhibition

MIT Museum

Aug 01, 2023

“Growing Islands,” by the Self-Assembly Lab, models climate change responses to protect the world's coasts and coastal populations. Now showing at the MIT Museum.

Book release

The MIT Press

Jul 31, 2023

“Design for Resilience” is a timely, visionary map for creating restorative design that addresses climate change.

News

Design Fellows

Jul 28, 2023

MAD fellow Mariama N'Diaye's Design-led Approach to Governance

News

Faculty search

Jul 29, 2023

The Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) at MIT invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the area of Transformative Design.

Event

Replay

Jul 25, 2023

Missed our event “Tomorrow's Designers, Designing Today,” featuring some of our MAD fellows? Watch the replay.

News

Jul 24, 2023

Design Library Part 3: most popular books and articles in the MIT MAD design community.

News

Design Fellows

Jul 18, 2023

MIT MAD fellow improves accessibility of online graphics for blind users.

News

Jun 23, 2023

Design Library Part 2: most popular books and articles in the MIT MAD design community.

News

Events

Jun 20, 2023

MIT MAD invites MIT-wide submissions for event support and collaborations around design.

News

Design Fellows

Jun 16, 2023

MIT MAD fellow Kyle Gordon wants to change ‘who’s in the room’ during product design.

News

Jun 14, 2023

Commencement Speaker Mark Rober sparks “playful anarchy” in the MIT design community.

News

Design Fellows

Jun 08, 2023

Redefining design with MAD fellow Ganit Goldstein: textiles at the intersection of tradition and technology

News

May 31, 2023

Design Library Part 1: most popular books and articles in the MIT MAD design community.

News

K-12 Education

May 22, 2023

MIT undergraduates and design educator Rosa Weinberg explore how to expand access to design education for K-12 students.

News

Press

May 18, 2023

designboom announces MIT MAD's cohort of “future world-changing designers.”

News

Project Manus

May 16, 2023

What happens in MIT makerspaces? Discover four projects led by students.

News

Design Fellows

May 05, 2023

Could plastic waste become a building source for homes? MAD Fellow AJ Perez 3D prints the first building foundation made from recycled plastic bottles.

Announcement

MITDesignX

May 04, 2023

The Andrea Chegut Fellowship honors the memory of a world-recognized thought leader who generously shared her knowledge.

News

DesignPlus

Apr 13, 2023

“My creative side is not secondary at MIT. It's actually one of my greatest assets at MIT.” Watch the DesignPlus video to learn more about our first-year Learning Community.

News

MIT community event

Apr 10, 2023

Design for World-Building, with Adam Savage / Course 4.110, Design Across Scales – May 1, 2023 at 10:30am.

News

MIT community event

Apr 05, 2023

Design for Society, with Jennifer Pahlka / Course 4.110, Design Across Scales – April 24, 2023 at 10:30am.

News

Public event

Mar 29, 2023

Come break the ice at Thresholds 51: Heat Launch Party / MIT Museum, April 14, 2023 from 5:30–7:30!

News

Student spotlight

Mar 22, 2023

Engineering clean water for communities: design fellow Jonathan Bessette prototyped a deployable desalination system for humanitarian emergencies and underserved communities.

Event

Boston Design Week

Mar 17, 2023

“Tomorrow’s Designers, Designing Today,” three dialogues from design voices at MIT, on May 3.

Event

Boston Design Week

Mar 17, 2023

“Making Sustainable Design: From the Classroom to the World,” three projects celebrating Earth Month at MIT, on April 26.

Event

Public Programming

Mar 06, 2023

“What It’s Really About,” a conversation on human-centered design with Jae Rhim Lee, on April 10.

News

MIT Technology Review

Feb 24, 2023

The Design Issue. Read the latest from MIT Technology Review.

News

Public Programming

Feb 22, 2023

Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook: Join Dori Tunstall on March 3.

News

Design Fellow

Jan 30, 2023

Work of MIT MAD Fellow Francesca Riccio-Ackerman leads to MoU with Sierra Leone, improving care for people with disabilities.

News

Program

Feb 15, 2023

The DesignPlus Learning Community is a space for MIT first-year undergraduates to explore design, in theory and practice.

News

Public programming

Feb 13, 2023

From Visual Thinking to Artificial Intelligence: Join Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg on Feb 21.

News

Job post

Jan 26, 2023

There’s an opening for a Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) tenure-track faculty position in the area of Transformative Design. Apply this way!

News

MIT News

Jan 23, 2023

Miho Mazereeuw, an architect of built and natural environments, looks for new ways to get people ready for natural disasters.

News

Job posts

Jan 11, 2023

MAD is looking for an administrative assistant and a financial assistant. Apply this way!

News

Call for applications

Jan 17, 2023

Our 2023 Design Fellowship Call for applications is now closed. Fellows will be announced in the Spring. Stay tuned!

News

Technology Review

Dec 19, 2022

“There are solutions out there waiting to be discovered.” Thoughts on Design and the future of MAD.

News

Spectrum

Dec 13, 2022

From major to minor, design proves key at MIT.

News

Spectrum

Dec 08, 2022

John Ochsendorf and Maria Yang say how MAD will elevate design at MIT and beyond.

News

Design Fellow

Dec 07, 2022

Jonathan Zong named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science 2023

News

MIT News

Nov 14, 2022

MIT MAD will administer the new Hasso Plattner Institute–MIT Research Program on Designing for Sustainability

Past Event

Forum

Oct 18, 2022

THE POWER OF DESIGN
Watch the live stream of our Oct. 18 inaugural event: The Power of Design

News

MIT News

Oct 17, 2022

MIT Morningside Academy for Design’s inaugural fellows chart a new course

cropped asymmetrical rectangles of each of the MAD fellows in a 5x3 grid on a gold/green background.

News

MIT News

Mar 14, 2022

MIT Morningside Academy for Design created as a new hub for cross-disciplinary education, research, and innovation