Team
The MIT Morningside Academy for Design is composed of multiple entities encompassing learning, making and prototyping, and entrepreneurship activities.
Executive Team
John Ochsendorf
Class of 1942 Professor; Professor of Architecture; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; MacVicar Faculty Fellow; Founding Director, Morningside Academy for Design
Maria Yang
Kendall Rohsenow Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Associate Director, Morningside Academy for Design; Faculty Director for Academics, MIT D-Lab; Founder and Director, MIT Ideation Lab
Marion Cunningham
Associate Director, Administration
Svafa Grönfeldt
Professor of Practice, SA+P; Faculty Director, MITdesignX
J. Kim Vandiver
Project Manus director, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Ocean Engineering
Skylar Tibbits
Associate Professor, Architecture; Director, Self-Assembly Lab at MIT; Assistant Director for Education, Morningside Academy for Design
N52 MAD
Chris Haynes
Shop manager
Katherine Higgins
Academic-Research Program Administrator
Allison John
Financial Assistant
William (Bill) McKenna
Technical instructor
Roi Salgueiro Barrio
Curator–Director
Jennifer Spungin
Administrative Assistant
Rosa Weinberg
K-12 Design Education Lead
Adélaïde Zollinger
Director of Communications
About MIT MAD
Makerspaces
Making and prototyping are at the heart of the design process. MAD celebrates campus making, and fosters student maker communities across MIT.
J. Kim Vandiver
Project Manus director, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Ocean Engineering
Jonathan Hunt
Project Manus associate director & maker IT Guru
Seth Avecilla
Maker Technical Specialist
Katherine Gilbreath
Administrative Assistant
Chris Murphy
Sr. Business Systems Analyst
Jess Osserman
Maker Technical Specialist
Oliver Thomas
Maker Digital Systems Architect
Lee Zamir
Maker Technical Specialist
About Making
DesignX
MITdesignX is an academic program dedicated to design innovation and entrepreneurship. It empowers students, faculty, and researchers to build new business ventures and forward-thinking solutions addressing critical environmental and human challenges.
Norbert Chang
Lecturer
Svafa Grönfeldt
Professor of Practice, SA+P; Faculty Director, MITdesignX
Yscaira Jimenez
Systems change innovator, investor, entrepreneur, lecturer
Gilad Rosenzweig
Executive Director, MITDesignX
Lauren Witte
Program Coordinator
About MITdesignX