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Advances in Architectural Geometry Symposium is coming to MIT



MIT D-Lab spinout True Moringa featured on CNN



iPod Inventor and Nest Founder Tony Fadell Named MAD’s Inaugural Designer in Residence



Quilting with astrophysicists



Introducing the 2025 MAD Design Fellows



MAS.S60 Critical Matter: Emotive Design from Fashion to Urban Scale



MIT launches Day of Design to bring hands-on learning to classrooms



Discovering metamaterials with extraordinary energy dissipation



Two initiatives awarded MAD curriculum support to transform design education



Collaborating with the force of nature



Now Open: Fall 2025 Call for Design Events



What does a designer actually do?



Is there a design formula?



MIT Gala offers MET Gala some very-MIT competition, including a dress with morse code hidden in the beadwork



Watch the ALBERS x MIT event replay



Cyclical Vision: VAMO Proposes an Alternative to Architectural Permanence



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MAD at the Venice Biennale

May 10 – Nov 23, 2025

Radical Softness

Oct 15, 2025

MAD Reads

Oct 21, 2025

Making What Matters

Oct 22, 2025

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VAMO—Vegetal, Animal, Mineral, Other

Automatic Example Generation for Babylonian Programming to facilitate Human-centric Domain Exploration

Aligning the useful and environmental lifetimes of plastics

The Design of Sustainable Academic Entrepreneurship Ecosystems for AI-Driven Venture Success

Strengthening orthothic and prosthetic care globally

Accessibility of online graphics for blind and low-vision users

Plug-and-Play: Increasing Autonomy in Apartment Living With Flexible Modular Design

Concrete Printed Bridge

AI-Enabled Design of Electroactive Surfaces for Sustainable Cell Culture

Human-AI interaction in generative design

2D Magnetic Material for Sustainable AI

AI-Powered Startup Design for the Anthropocene

AI-Empowered Architect: Connecting Creativity with Efficiency for Sustainable Structures Design

Collaborative Augmented Reality-Guided Mud Formwork for Optimized Structural Construction in Remote Areas

Using AI and Immersive Technologies to Experience the Future Self and Support Sustainable Dietary Choices

Predicting Functional Effects of Genetic Variants

Portable Kitchens

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