Interdisciplinary design education at MIT & beyond. Programs, fellowships, events & resources for students & researchers to learn, innovate, & create.
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Joined September 2022
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🏡 Meet Zane Schemmer! Zane is a PhD student @mit_cee combining Design + Optimization in his research to minimize the carbon footprint of the built environment by designing efficient structures that consider the availability of local materials. @MITEngineering
"A good design in structural engineering creates a space that connects communities. It is influenced by the ideas and materials of the local region. [It] has the ability to exist for years and inspire multiple generations." @MITEngineering
— Zane Schemmer, 2024 MAD Design Fellow
MIT MAD's Roi Salgueiro Barrio alongside architect Manuel Bouzas Barcala have been selected as curators of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2025.
🎊 Read more at buff.ly/40ilwpt.
@mitsap @mit
Sharing out the Community Engaged Learning workshop series from our friends @MITPKG!
🔹 Nov 12: Clinical Approaches to Community Engaged Learning
🔹 Dec 10: Global Partnerships
🔹 Jan 7: Reflective Practices
Please RSVP here: buff.ly/4fBKCnK
MIT students! Join an infosession with @mistiatmit to learn about undergrad and grad internship opportunities abroad to develop your design, architecture, or urban planning career.
Nov 13 12:30—2:00 PM
Lunch served in-person + Zoom option at buff.ly/3Ynasou
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Join authors Carissa Carter (@snowflyzone) and @scottdoorley from the @stanforddschool for a discussion on their book "Assembling Tomorrow."
November 13 6–7:30pm
MIT Building 7–429 Long Lounge
Cambridge, MA
RSVP and more details: buff.ly/3YHqFX4
🧬 Designers of all ages are invited to Design Redefined: Designing with Life!
Hear speakers from @wyssinstitute, @medtechawards, @harvardgsd, + @medialab in a panel on biotechnology and design at this FREE event.
Nov. 7, 2024 4–6pm @mitmuseum
Details: buff.ly/40w3FeG
🍁🎮 The replay of Level Up Game Design is now live—learn from experts & enthusiasts in a panel discussion on the role of identity, narrative, & community in driving the popularity of contemporary games. @mit
👀 Watch at buff.ly/3UhBwUZ
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Do you have an idea that can scale & make an impact? Start your application to join MITdesignX 2025! Over the past 8 years, over 80 teams have launched ventures through @MITdesignX, driving positive change worldwide.
🚀 APPLY & + details at designx.mit.edu
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👀 Read @techreview's profile of Skylar Tibbits: Ass. Prof. of design research @MITarchitecture + MAD's assistant director for education. He's developing “4D printing,” where materials can change shape or adapt over time. buff.ly/3MtCfhp
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TOMORROW! 🖊️ ✨ Bob Weis, former president of Walt Disney Imagineering, is coming to MIT for a signing of his memoir "Dream Chasing," on his four-decade long career dreaming up designs for the Disney universe. @mitpbookstore @MITSloan @mit
October 24, 2024 5PM
E52-164
Cambridge
🧠 DESIGN + CREATIVITY: Neuroscientist Lila Chrysikou (@drexeluniv, @tsfnc) shares with MIT MAD how creativity can be stimulated for more inventive designs.
Watch: buff.ly/3U56M9C
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🪢 Scaling Softness: Janet Echelman, Caitlin Mueller (@mit_cee, @mitarchitecture), and moderator Gloria Sutton (@northeastern) for a presentation + preview of a new installation @mitmuseum coming fall 2025.
➡️ Register for the 10/24 event: buff.ly/3BMyj9y
@artsatmit
Designed by Omnivore (omnivorous.org) — find MAD's fall 2024 posters around campus featuring highlighted MIT design courses, design events, and makerspaces.
EVENTS ~ buff.ly/4dNmZqT
MAD LAB ~ make.mit.edu
COURSES ~ buff.ly/48aQxxp
Meet MAD Fellow Alexander Htet Kyaw, a designer working in Design + Generative AI for Robotics to challenge conventional manufacturing and fabrication practices.
He is a grad student in @mitarchitecture & @miteecs and an alum of @mitdesignx where he co-founded BendShelters.
"Design should be adaptable to changes and capable of evolving with new requirements and constraints." — Alexander Htet Kyaw, 2024 MAD Design Fellow @mitarchitecture & @miteecs
📙 10/16: Join Michael Sheldrick, founder of anti-poverty org @GlblCtzn, for a conversation + signing for his new book “From Ideas to Impact: A Playbook for Influencing & Implementing Change in a Divided World”
🔍 Find details at buff.ly/3zujBDa
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🔨 MIT first-years! Register for the Makerspace 1st-Year Training Program (M1T) to earn access to key makerspaces, common tools, Makerbucks, and a cool new t-shirt!
👏 to J. Osserman for designing the M1T graphic identity + modeling swag!
Details: buff.ly/3ZCCbno
