Watch Online: youtube.com/channel/UCF0b_…

and share the network of civic spaces and social housing projects that they have co-developed with migrant communities to address the challenges of accelerating migration, and cultivate regional and global solidarities.

Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman
Part of the MIT Spring 2024 Architecture Lecture Series. In collaboration with the Architecture and Urbanism Group and the MIT Morningside Academy for Design

Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:00 PM, Long Lounge
Registration Link: tickettailor.com/events/mitarch…

Sharing the wonderful work of MIT D-Lab and Perkins School for the Blind! Students collaborated with local partners in Merida, Yucatan on design projects to enable children with disabilities to learn. Read more: buff.ly/4cFjTWL

Image courtesy of Perkins School for the Blind.

👋 Get to know MITdesignX at the MIT MAD Design Open Studio on April 24th! MITdesignX will be presenting some of the many ventures in its newest cohort.

Check out the ventures at buff.ly/3J1wBS0 and register for the Open Studio at buff.ly/49t2Chy.

Sharing out the Annual Edgerton Center Showcase— come meet over a dozen student orgs and their projects supported by our friends at the Edgerton Center!

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 4-5pm
MIT Lobby 13
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MIT Edgerton Center MIT Solar Car

✨ Curious about human-centered design? RSVP for a dinner and workshop hosted by the MIT Sloan Design Club with Evan Chan (Deloitte, Institute for Design)!

April 8, 2024 6-8pm
Building E62-233
RSVP: buff.ly/3TOXQUH

MIT Sloan School of Management

April 24 Open Design Studio @ MIT (4:30pm, N52, 3rd fl) will spotlight Labs & teams contributing to MIT's design community. #1: 🥽⛓️ The Self-Assembly Lab, a research lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) inventing self-assembly and programmable material technologies.
Self-Assembly Lab Skylar Tibbits

🦫✨ Welcome C/O 2028, we're so excited to meet you!

While you're enjoying CPW, make sure to check out DesignPlus, our first-year learning community centering design and fabrication. Learn more at buff.ly/3xvVzDn

Featured here: Chladni Plates, by Wonu Abiodun.

Ever learned a new maker tool and been stumped on what to make next? Check out the directory by MIT Project Manus at buff.ly/3PHUh1o with dozens of beginner project ideas to help you overcome your creative block.

📷: Sabrina Hare '22, courtesy of Project Manus

Apply by April 9: The call for student volunteers for the Design Research Society (DRS) conference is NOW OPEN! 🥳 Volunteers dedicate 20-30 hours during the week of the conference, in-person and online. buff.ly/4cMTfvc
Center for Design | Northeastern University, New Urban Mechanics, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, @harvardgsd

Starting 4/28, head over to MIT Museum for Nature-Driven Design Week (part of Boston Design Week)!

On 4/28, hear from panelists inc. MAD affiliates Skylar Tibbits, Rosa Weinberg, and Design Fellow James Brice and attend design activities all week.

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Our refreshed Climate Primer—written by Dr. Kerry Emanuel, professor emeritus of Atmospheric Science at MIT (MIT EAPS)—now incorporates four more years of climate knowledge to keep learners up-to-minute with the state of our planet and the human response.
climateprimer.mit.edu

📢 3/24: Open Design Studio @ MIT — register online at buff.ly/49t2Chy

Meet emerging designers from MITdesignX, MIT D-Lab, Self-Assembly Lab, MIT UrbanRISKLab and some of MAD's Design Fellows as part of Boston Design Week.

Floodplains have been centers of world agriculture for all of recorded history. For his MIT Morningside Academy for Design fellowship, Chen Chu is exploring how the design of floodplain food systems informs and responds to climate change adaptation. ow.ly/jW8z50QVJRi

What criteria & data should be used to define the spatial & temporal borders of a city? A new paper in the inaugural issue of Nature Cities showcases the power of cellular data to map cities.

Learn more: bit.ly/duarteNatureCi…

IC: Chada Elalami via Senseable City Lab

👽 How will we solve medical emergencies in space?
Design Fellow Allison Porter draws from what we know about extreme medicine and automation to design medical care in space.

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Image: Mars — Terra Sirenum

MIT AeroAstro
HST
MIT IMES
NASA's Johnson Space Center

🦾 Sign up for a training! The N52 Fabrication Shop now has training orientations open to members of the MIT community. Register at buff.ly/4c2UUMC

Not MIT affiliated? Stay tuned for the N52 Open Studio later in April.

MIT Project Manus

MIT goes MAD for making! Community members fill their time learning & teaching maker + design skills in a variety of wildly-popular workshops from textiles to portfolio development. Here's a photo gallery of some recent workshops we supported: buff.ly/48LAe92 @mit MIT SA+P

Following MIT's Independent Activities Period, we received several requests for more textile workshops and activities. Which kinds of textile crafts and practices would you be interested in exploring over the next IAP? Images: 'Weaving with Recycled Materials' 📸 Conor McArdle