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Event replay: Learning from Zurich’s Co-ops

Mar 5, 2025

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Designing for extreme environments

StoriesFeb 3, 2025

Adelaide Zollinger

Street Smarts

StoriesDec 20, 2024

Peter Dizikes | MIT News

Tackling the Energy Revolution, One Sector at a Time

StoriesDec 18, 2024

CK Taylor | Climate and Sustainability Consortium, on MIT News

MAD Fellow Zane Schemmer Minimizes Carbon Footprint of Structures

Dec 11, 2024

MITdesignX LUMA Design Innovation Studio Call for Applications

Dec 8, 2024

The 2025 MAD Design Fellowship Call for Applications is now open

Nov 27, 2024

Finding a sweet spot between radical and relevant

Nov 14, 2024

Take a Public Tour of MIT D-Lab!

Sep 17, 2024

Design + Performance: Interview with Gihan Amarasiriwardena

Aug 22, 2024

MIT D-Lab off-grid brooder saves chicks and money using locally manufactured thermal batteries

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Aug 12, 2024

MITdesignX Pitch Day Replay — 2024 Edition

A woman speaks into a microphone in front of a large audience in a bright, modern auditorium. A second woman stands at a podium nearby. Behind them, a large multi-screen display shows a colorful image of a crowded outdoor event. The audience includes people of various ages, attentively watching the presentation.

Jun 28, 2024

New MIT-LUMA Lab created to address climate challenges in the Mediterranean region

May 29, 2024

Designers for the Future Event Replay

May 14, 2024

From Insights to Impact: The MITdesignX 2024 Cohort Proposes Ventures for a More Sustainable World

May 7, 2024

2024 MAD Design Fellows Announced at the MIT Museum

May 2, 2024

2023 Design Fellow Liane Makatura Reimagines the Way we Design and Manufacture Physical Objects

Apr 24, 2024

HPI-MIT Design Research Collaboration Creates Powerful Teams

Apr 18, 2024

Curiosity Unbounded, with Skylar Tibbits: Staying radical and relevant

Mar 11, 2024

Letting the Earth Answer Back: Designing Better Planetary Conversations

Feb 16, 2024

2024-25 Designing for Sustainability Research Program

Feb 14, 2024

2023 Design Fellow James Brice Works with Oysters for Coastal Adaptation

Feb 8, 2024

Design + Sustainability: Interview with Paula J. Ehrlich

Dec 20, 2023

2022 Design Fellow Jonathan Bessette is Awarded J-WAFS India Grant

Dec 14, 2023

Design Fellowship Info Session Replay, Dec 2023

Dec 7, 2023

Culturally Informed Design: Unearthing Ingenuity Where It Always Was

Nov 28, 2023

Bringing the Environment to the Forefront of Engineering

Oct 25, 2023

“Designing for Sustainability” Program: Ten Funded Projects

Oct 19, 2023

Deblina Sarkar and Shivam Kajale of MIT awarded Designing for Sustainability Funding with HPI Collaborators

Oct 5, 2023

Greening roofs to boost climate resilience

Sep 20, 2023

Architect of Change: Justin Brazier Brings Community Kitchens to Boston

Aug 25, 2023

Aligning the “Useful” and “Environmental” Lifetime of Plastics: Elijah Martin’s Engineering Challenge

Aug 7, 2023

“Growing Islands,” by the Self-Assembly Lab, now showing at the MIT Museum

Aug 2, 2023

Redefining Design: Textiles at the Intersection of Tradition and Technology

Jun 8, 2023

MAD Fellow, AJ Perez 3D Prints the First Building Foundation Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles

May 5, 2023

Engineering Clean Water for Communities

Mar 21, 2023

“Can We Make the Climate Change Talk More Approachable?”

Feb 6, 2023

New Research Collaboration Aims to Tackle Global Societal Challenges Through Design

Nov 8, 2022