Collaborating with a local climate technology company, MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab is pursuing scalable erosion solutions that mimic nature, harnessing ocean currents to expand islands and rebuild coastlines.
Influential architect, educator, and former head of the MIT Department of Architecture “invented, investigated, challenged, and inspired.”
As he invents programmable materials and self-organizing systems, Skylar Tibbits is pushing design boundaries while also solving real-world problems.
Associate professor of architecture Brandon Clifford scrutinizes ancient stone structures, searching for ideas that can revitalize our building practices.
MIT’s innovation and entrepreneurship system helps launch water, food, and ag startups with social and economic benefits.
New STUDIO.nano supports artistic research and encounters within MIT.nano’s facilities.
A wide range of faculty disciplines showcases the breadth of research and scholarship across the school.
The effort to accelerate climate work at the Institute adds to its leadership team.
Increasing severity and duration of heat drives data collection and resiliency planning for the forthcoming Climate Resiliency and Adaptation Roadmap.
With NASA planning permanent bases in space and on the moon, MIT students develop prototypes for habitats far from planet Earth.
Ranking at the top for the 13th year in a row, the Institute also places first in 11 subject areas.
“Design is not a luxury,” the Gensler global co-chair told advanced degree recipients. “It’s for everyone, everywhere.”
The 10 Design Fellows are MIT graduate students working at the intersection of design and multiple disciplines across the Institute.
For the MIT Visiting Artist Chloé Bensahel, fabric itself tells the story.
The grants fund studies of clean hydrogen production, fetal health-sensing fabric, basalt architecture, and shark-based ocean monitoring.