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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



Designing quilts with foundation paper piecing



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MAD at the Venice Biennale

May 10 – Nov 23, 2025

In His Shoes

Oct 9, 2025

Radical Softness

Oct 15, 2025

MAD Reads

Oct 21, 2025

Projects

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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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Day of Design: Connect

Workshop, Panel / Roundtable
Sep 25, 2025
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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

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

Design Miami: Beyond Human

Panel / Roundtable, Conference, Design Miami
Dec 6, 2024

Designing with Life

Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined
Nov 7, 2024

From Ideas to Impact

Book Launch / Author Talk, Panel / Roundtable
Oct 16, 2024

Level Up Game Design

Workshop, Panel / Roundtable, Cambridge Science Festival, The Power of Design
Sep 26, 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

Shaping Shared Spaces

Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined
May 2, 2024

Designers for the Future

Panel / Roundtable, Boston Design Week
May 1, 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

Designing Experience

Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined
Dec 7, 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

Designing Accessibility

Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined
Oct 25, 2023

Water is Life

Panel / Roundtable, MAD-supported
Sep 26, 2023

On Wonder

Performance, Lecture, Panel / Roundtable
Sep 20, 2023

Designing Justice

Panel / Roundtable, Workshop, Design Redefined
May 5, 2023

Tomorrow’s Designers, Designing Today

Panel / Roundtable, Boston Design Week
May 3, 2023

Making Sustainable Design

Panel / Roundtable, Boston Design Week
Apr 26, 2023

Decolonizing Design

Lecture, Panel / Roundtable
Mar 3, 2023

The Power of Design

Panel / Roundtable, The Power of Design
Oct 18, 2022

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  • Graduate Students
  • Faculty & Advising
  • Design Courses at MIT
  • Day of Design (K–12)

Making

  • MIT Maker Culture
  • Labs & Facilities

Research & Innovation

  • Research
  • Entrepreneurship

Community

  • Design Fellows
  • DesignPlus Advisors
  • Faculty Advisory Council
  • Student Advisory Council
  • Designers in Residence
  • MIT Design Ecosystem
  • Team

Resources

  • Design Library
  • K-12 / Teachers
  • MAD Annual Reports

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  • K–12 teachers / Educators
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News

  • 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

Events

  • MAD at the Venice Biennale
  • In His Shoes
  • Radical Softness

Projects

  • 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

About

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