MAD

265 Massachusetts Ave
Bldg N52-373, Cambridge, MA 02139

Unlearning the Anthropocene: TAKK—Mireia Luzárraga

MAD-supported, Lecture

Oct 8, 2026

CON-VIVERE, The Edible Tower, is an architectural display that stands covered in natural materials like draping leaves and wooden frames in a light-filled gallery.

MET Open House (MIT Future Fest)

Panel / Roundtable, Exhibition / Installation, Workshop, Open Studio / Showcase

Oct 3, 2026

The MET Warehouse at dusk.

Exhibition: Polymaths

Exhibition / Installation

Oct 3, 2026

MIT Future Fest

Cambridge Science Festival, Book Launch / Author Talk, Panel / Roundtable, MAD-supported, Exhibition / Installation, Open Studio / Showcase, Conference, Film Screening, Lecture

Sep 30 – Oct 4, 2026

MAD Mixer for MAD, MIT D-Lab, designX students

D-Lab, DesignPlus, MITdesignX, Social

Sep 24, 2026

Three students work on projects in the makerspace, smiling and chatting.

An Evening with Alex Counts

Book Launch / Author Talk, MAD-supported, Panel / Roundtable, D-Lab

Sep 15, 2026

Alex Counts speaks intently with two women wearing traditional dress.

MITdesignX Demo + Pitch Day

MITdesignX, Pitch Day / Entrepreneurship

May 21, 2026

MIT D-Lab Book (Chapters) Launch-n-Lunch

Book Launch / Author Talk

May 12, 2026

MIT Gala

Open Studio / Showcase, Exhibition / Installation

May 10, 2026

MIT D-Lab Spring Student Showcase

Open Studio / Showcase

May 7, 2026

Design Redefined: Music, AI, and Community

Workshop, Design Redefined

Apr 30, 2026

MAD in Dialogue

Panel / Roundtable

Apr 21, 2026

MAD N52 Open Studio / Showcase

Open Studio / Showcase

Apr 17, 2026

General Magic Film Screening + Panel

Apr 14, 2026

GEO–MATTERS with Roi Salgueiro Barrio

Apr 2, 2026

MIT–HPI Workshop

Mar 19 – Mar 20, 2026

MIT D-Lab: International Development Career Social

Mar 10, 2026

MAD Portfolio Workshop Series

MAD-supported, Workshop

Mar 9, 2026

Green graphic with a dark green abstract shape in the center and large text reading “Communicating Research” with smaller white text in the top left corner that says “MAD Portfolio Workshop Series.”

Hard Mode: Hardware x AI Hackathon

Mar 6 – Mar 8, 2026

Stephen Burks Man Made

Mar 5, 2026

MAD Portfolio Workshop Series

MAD-supported, Workshop

Mar 2, 2026

Bright orange graphic with a bold yellow abstract shape in the center and large text reading “Portfolio Foundations,” with smaller white text in the top left corner that says “MAD Portfolio Workshop Series.”

Design Your Career

Mar 2, 2026

Design Redefined: Holding Our Attention

Workshop, Design Redefined

Feb 26, 2026

Intuition-Driven Product Leadership w/ Lucy Wang

Feb 25, 2026

Sentido with Author Alison Rand

Book Launch / Author Talk

Feb 18, 2026

Making Things Worth Making

Workshop, Lecture, MITdesignX

Jan 30, 2026

Promotional graphic with the words “Making Things Worth Making” over a yellow-to-purple gradient background, alongside a black-and-white portrait of Tony Fadell wearing a black T-shirt, standing casually with hands in his pockets.

Designing Your Life

Jan 20, 2026

Hardcover book titled Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life" by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans. The blue cover features the words “DESIGNING YOUR LIFE in large white letters, overlaid with concentric circles of yellow dots on the outside, blue dots for next ring, and red dots for the innermost ring.

2026 MAD IAP

Jan 5 – Jan 30, 2026

2026 Design Fellowship Information Session

Dec 11, 2025

Encoding–Decoding Constellations

Exhibition / Installation, MAD-supported

Dec 10 – Jan 25, 2026

Intricate white geometric patterns resembling lace against a dark background, some in focus, some blurred.

MAD Holiday Making

Dec 9, 2025

Four handmade block-printed holiday cards on kraft paper, featuring red snowflakes, a black pinecone, and a penguin with a star.

MIT D-Lab Student Showcase

Open Studio / Showcase

Dec 4, 2025

Celebrate Metropolis turning 6 years old!

Nov 20, 2025

From Process to Outcome

Book Launch / Author Talk

Nov 20, 2025

Close-up of the corner of a white book titled Value of Design: Creating Agency Through Data-Driven Insights, resting on a gray concrete surface.

Sustainable Making Workshop

Nov 19, 2025

Design Redefined: AI, Climate, and the Future We Design

Workshop, Panel / Roundtable, Design Redefined

Nov 6, 2025

Abstract image featuring fluid, wavy streaks of neon blue and red against a dark background, resembling glowing streams of energy or heat patterns blending together.

Shaping New Realities

Workshop, MAD-supported

Oct 28, 2025

Making What Matters

Oct 22, 2025

Black-and-white portrait of Tony Fadell, smiling and standing casually with one hand in his pocket, wearing a plain black V-neck T-shirt against a light background.

MAD Reads

Oct 21, 2025

Hardcover book titled "Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making" by Tony Fadell. The white cover features the word “BUILD” in large black letters, overlaid with colorful schematic and stitched patterns. The book is shown angled on a white background.

Radical Softness

Book Launch / Author Talk

Oct 15, 2025

Artist Janet Echelman, wearing large white glasses and a colorful pleated scarf gestures while engaging with students during a class activity involving ropes strung in geometric patterns. Several students look on in the background.

In His Shoes

Oct 9, 2025

Display of Stuart Weitzman platform sandals in various colors, including blue, black, brown, pink, and nude, arranged neatly on illuminated gold-framed shelves inside a boutique.

Design for our Lives

Film Screening, Exhibition / Installation

Oct 3, 2025

A man in an orange long-sleeve shirt concentrates while repairing electrical wiring on a motorcycle. Several young men stand closely behind him, watching intently, with one holding a mango and another leaning on the motorcycle’s handlebars. The group is gathered outdoors under a tree, with sunlight filtering through the leaves.

Day of Design: Connect

Workshop, Panel / Roundtable

Sep 25, 2025

Colorful gradient background in blue and pink hues overlaid with large serif text "Day of Design: Connect"

Arts on the Radar 2025

Open Studio / Showcase

Sep 5, 2025

MITdesignX Demo + Pitch Day 2025

Pitch Day / Entrepreneurship, MITdesignX

May 16, 2025

MAD at the Venice Biennale

Exhibition / Installation

May 10 – Nov 23, 2025

Not Here, Not Now

Book Launch / Author Talk

May 7, 2025

Generative AI for Design

Workshop, MAD-supported

May 2, 2025

Rethinking Who Designs AI

Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined

May 1, 2025

ALBERS x MIT

Panel / Roundtable, Workshop

Apr 30, 2025

MAD in Dialogue

Panel / Roundtable

Apr 29, 2025

Territorial Design

Panel / Roundtable, Exhibition / Installation, MAD-supported

Apr 18, 2025

Architectural Damage & Creative Engineering

Apr 17, 2025

Global Commons and New Ecologies

Apr 2 – Apr 3, 2025

Spring 2025 HPI–MIT Workshop

Mar 24 – Mar 25, 2025

Gaze to the Stars

Exhibition / Installation, MAD-supported

Mar 14 – Mar 15, 2025

Nonlinear, with Kevin Bethune

Book Launch / Author Talk

Mar 4, 2025

MAD Book Club

Feb 28, 2025

Speculative Climate Design

Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined

Feb 27, 2025

Learning from Zurich’s Co-ops

Panel / Roundtable, Book Launch / Author Talk

Feb 26, 2025

2025 MAD IAP

Jan 31 – Feb 1, 2025

2025 Design Fellowship Information Session

Dec 11, 2024

Design Miami: Beyond Human

Panel / Roundtable, Conference, Design Miami

Dec 6, 2024

MIT Energy & Climate Hack

Hackathon, MAD-supported

Nov 15 – Nov 17, 2024

Assembling Tomorrow

Book Launch / Author Talk, Lecture

Nov 13, 2024

Designing with Life

Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined

Nov 7, 2024

Dream Chasing, with Bob Weis

Book Launch / Author Talk

Oct 24, 2024

Antikythera at MIT

Lecture, Symposium

Oct 23 – Oct 25, 2024

Polimi-MIT Hackathon

Hackathon, Pitch Day / Entrepreneurship

Oct 19 – Oct 20, 2024

From Ideas to Impact

Book Launch / Author Talk, Panel / Roundtable

Oct 16, 2024

2024-25 Call for Events

Oct 1 – May 30, 2024

Pencil Critters

Workshop, Cambridge Science Festival, The Power of Design

Sep 29, 2024

Fashionino

Workshop, Cambridge Science Festival, The Power of Design

Sep 28, 2024

Planetary Play

Workshop, Cambridge Science Festival, The Power of Design

Sep 27, 2024

Level Up Game Design

Workshop, Panel / Roundtable, Cambridge Science Festival, The Power of Design

Sep 26, 2024

A Love Letter to the Unmade

Lecture, The Power of Design

Sep 25 – Sep 26, 2024

Nonlinear

Lecture, Book Launch / Author Talk

Sep 25, 2024

Arts on the Radar 2024

Open Studio / Showcase

Sep 6, 2024

Designing With, Not For

Panel / Roundtable, DRS24 Conference

Jun 27, 2024

Writing on Design

Panel / Roundtable, Book Launch / Author Talk, DRS24 Conference

Jun 27, 2024

DRS2024 BOSTON

Jun 24 – Jun 29, 2024

MITdesignX Pitch Day

Pitch Day / Entrepreneurship, MITdesignX

May 17, 2024

Shaping Shared Spaces

Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined

May 2, 2024

Designers for the Future

Panel / Roundtable, Boston Design Week

May 1, 2024

Open Design Studio at MIT

Open Studio / Showcase, Boston Design Week

Apr 24, 2024

MIT Architecture Lecture Series

Apr 18, 2024

Spring 2024 HPI–MIT Workshop

Mar 21 – Mar 22, 2024

MAS Transformative Design Special Guest Seminars

Mar 18 – Mar 19, 2024

How to Design a Revolution

Book Launch / Author Talk, Panel / Roundtable, Exhibition / Installation

Mar 11, 2024

Designing Inclusion in AI

Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined

Mar 7, 2024

2024 MAD IAP

Feb 2, 2024

Designing Experience

Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined

Dec 7, 2023

2024 Design Fellowship Information Session

Dec 6, 2023

MITdesignX Pitch Day

Pitch Day / Entrepreneurship, MITdesignX

Dec 1, 2023

MIT Generative AI Week

Conference, MAD-supported

Nov 28 – Dec 1, 2023

Planetary Health: Indigenous Land, Peoples and Bodies

Panel / Roundtable, MAD-supported

Nov 16, 2023

The Power of Design

Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, The Power of Design

Nov 15, 2023

Drawn Together

Nov 3, 2023

2023-24 Call for Events

Nov 1, 2023

Designing Accessibility

Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined

Oct 25, 2023

Water is Life

Panel / Roundtable, MAD-supported

Sep 26, 2023

Designing the Impossible

Sep 21, 2023

On Wonder

Performance, Lecture, Panel / Roundtable

Sep 20, 2023

MITdesignX Lunch + Launch

Sep 13 – Sep 27, 2023

Arts on the Radar 2023

Open Studio / Showcase

Sep 8, 2023

OGS Venture Pitches at MIT

Pitch Day / Entrepreneurship, MITdesignX

Aug 15, 2023

Design Challenge with Mark Rober

Workshop, Lecture

May 31, 2023

MITdesignX Pitch and Demo Day 2023

Pitch Day / Entrepreneurship, MITdesignX

May 24, 2023

Design for Future Challenges

Lecture, Design Across Scales

May 15, 2023

Designing Justice

Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined

May 5, 2023

Tomorrow’s Designers, Designing Today

Panel / Roundtable, Boston Design Week

May 3, 2023

Design for World-Building

Lecture, Design Across Scales

May 1, 2023

Making Sustainable Design

Panel / Roundtable, Boston Design Week

Apr 26, 2023

Design for Society

Lecture, Design Across Scales

Apr 24, 2023

Thresholds 51 Launch Event

Book Launch / Author Talk

Apr 21, 2023

What It’s Really About

Apr 10, 2023

MIT–HPI Workshop

Mar 29, 2023

Decolonizing Design

Lecture, Panel / Roundtable

Mar 3, 2023

From Visual Thinking to Artificial Intelligence

Feb 21, 2023

2023 Design Fellowship Information Session

Dec 19, 2022

Bon Ku: Health Design Thinking

Lecture, DesignPlus

Dec 6, 2022

Man standing in a classroom; dusk. Stusents seating around a large table.

The Power of Design

Panel / Roundtable, The Power of Design

Oct 18, 2022

Kevin Bethune: Reimagining Design

Lecture, Book Launch / Author Talk, MITdesignX

Sep 28, 2022

Arts on the Radar 2022

Open Studio / Showcase

Sep 9 – Sep 10, 2022