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International Design Center at MIT

 Cambridge, MA
idc.mit.edu
Joined April 2014
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Congrats @de_Monchaux! Nicholas De Monchaux appointed to lead MIT Department of Architecture architecture.mit.edu/news/ni… via @MITarchitecture architecture.mit.edu/news/ni…
Researchers Tested a 500-Year-Old Bridge Concept by Leonardo to See If His Revolutionary Design Would Work. It Did | artnet News news.artnet.com/art-world/br…

Researchers Tested a 500-Year-Old Bridge Concept by Leonardo to See If His Revolutionary Design...

Had it been built, the renaissance master’s design would have been the longest bridge in the world ten times over.

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Why spacesuit design choices — not women’s physiques — delayed the first all-female spacewalk theverge.com/2019/10/21/2092… via @Verge

Why spacesuit design choices — not women’s physiques — delayed the first all-female spacewalk

“Men are definitely not inherently better.”

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Our latest work, Liquid Printed Metal, exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in their "Designs for Different Futures" exhibit, Self-Assembly Lab, MIT Team: Björn Eric Sparrman Schendy G. Kernizan Jared Laucks, Skylar Tibbits... vimeo.com/367754696

Liquid Printed Metal

Liquid Printed Metal, first shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's "Designs for Different Futures" exhibit, is a new process for printing liquid metal within a powder support. This process can...

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MIT IDC retweeted
MIT SA+P@mitsap22 Sep 2019
Building Bridges. @MITarchitecture's Caitlin Mueller is profiled for her use of machine learning to support the design process from both an architectural and engineering perspective. @MIT_Spectrum
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Congrats @nativeshoes a nice overview of some of their latest work including a mention of our ongoing collaboration - fastcompany.com/90400462/10-…
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See architecture through the lens of MIT student work. "Drawing, Designing, Thinking: 150 Years of Teaching Architecture at MIT," on view through August 25. ow.ly/V6rV50vcTdX
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Such a sad moment in MIT time.
MIT MechE@MITMechE22 Jul 2019
It is with profound sadness that we share that alum Steven Keating SM '12 PhD '16 has passed away at the age of 31. His courageous battle with brain cancer and advocacy for open-sourcing patient data will continue to serve as an inspiration to us all mitsha.re/ob2950v8oVq

Celebrating a curious mind: Steven Keating 1988-2019

MIT alumnus Steven John Keating died on July 19 at age 31. The cause was brain cancer. Keating inspired countless people with his courageous, research-driven approach to battling cancer and was a...

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Read one of our most downloaded articles today! "From Improved Diagnostics to Presurgical Planning: High-Resolution Functionally Graded Multimaterial 3D Printing of Biomedical Tomographic Data Sets" ow.ly/jRSG30p8OSO #3DPrinting
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Urban Risk Lab’s David Moses presenting a sampler of lab projects - RiskMap, FluxMap, PrepHub Nepal, FEMA Alternatives to Post-Disaster Housing - at the Boston x Netherlands event last night at the BSA Space @BSAAIA @nwpnederland
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The @urbanrisklab works with local communities to prepare for disasters.
MIT UrbanRISKLab@urbanrisklab22 Apr 2019
Risk Map testing this week in Kumamoto, Japan for evacuation shelter management. 13,500 people participated in the drill across the city!
Buildings Can Be Designed to Withstand Earthquakes. Why Doesn’t the U.S. Build More of Them?nytimes.com/interactive/2019…

Buildings Can Be Designed to Withstand Earthquakes. Why Doesn’t the U.S. Build More of Them?...

At stake is whether places like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Salt Lake City, San Francisco or Los Angeles might be forced to shut down after a direct hit.

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Thrilled to congratulate our colleagues Julie Kukharenko and Chris Haynes at @idcMIT on their 2019 Infinite Mile Awards
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The @SelfAssemblyLab is researching ways to transform our coastlines! Their first project, supported by Invena, uses ocean currents to self-assemble small sandbars to protect an island in the @maldives . idc.mit.edu/news/self-assemb…
In MIT D-Lab class 2.729, Design for Scale, MIT students work with clients in the developing world to manufacture products in a more cost-efficient and effective way – from ambulances in Tanzania to an irrigation pump in Nepal mitsha.re/3Zal30oEjs
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D-Lab class, Design for Scale, teaches students to manufacture products for a larger audience. Prof. Maria Yang says we are asking students to "design a way to manufacture the product that’s more cost-efficient and effective" @dlab_mit idc.mit.edu/news/scaling-sol…
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At this year's MacVicar Day symposium, faculty and students reflect on the challenges and joys of education in the 21st century.
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@MIT2 Apr 2019
Celebrating passionate teachers and enthusiastic learners mitsha.re/2NC630oiesR
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MIT SA+P@mitsap13 Apr 2019
Countdown to #MakerBreak 2019. @MITstudents, join the MIT Community for a celebration of making hosted by @projectmanus on Tuesday, April 16, 2-4 PM @ Johnson Ice Rink: makerbreak.mit.edu @MITevents
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Thank you @FastCompany for announcing Ampli, our modular diagnostic platform, as a finalist in the #FCWorldChangingIdeas and congratulations to the rest of honorees! #diagnostics #globalhealth #diymedtech #momandpoplabs
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MIT IDC retweeted
MIT SA+P@mitsap7 Apr 2019
"Turning Points in Architecture, Design, and Research" On April 12-13, 2019, join the @MITarchitecture community for a symposium to close the year-long celebration of 150 years of architecture education at MIT. mitsha.re/oMTO30nXzfF #mitarch150
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