DesignX

A young man with short black hair wearing a dark cable-knit sweater, black collared shirt, and corduroy jacket stands in front of a large abstract textile artwork featuring bold shapes in blue, white, and purple.

Merging design and computer science in creative ways

MAD Fellow Alexander Htet Kyaw connects humans, machines, and the physical world using AI and augmented reality.

April 28, 2025

A woman looks at a rendering of a room on her laptop, with other screens showing room views floating around the laptop.

Making property assessments as simple as snapping a picture

The technology of MIT alumni-founded Hosta a.i. creates detailed property assessments from photos.

April 21, 2023

A rendering shows a square historic district hall with a courtyard in the center. It has raised vegetable gardens and trees on its roof. There are spiral staircases leading to the gardens from a lower roof. Lounge chairs and wooden railings are in the lush, green gardens.

Greening roofs to boost climate resilience

Roofscapes, a startup founded by three MIT students, is planning to build green spaces on pitched roofs in Paris, to decrease temperatures while improving quality of life.

April 4, 2023

A mixture of games of various sizes, including notched gameboards where you can make designs with black and whites. One toy is a modular tree you can build using smaller wooden pieces.

Learning Beautiful brings MIT’s “mind and hand” ethos to early childhood education

Spun out of a Media Lab project, the startup offers materials that help children explore computer science concepts through hands-on learning.

January 20, 2023

Graduate students Stephanie Lee (left) and Ellen Shakespear presenting at MITdesignX’s 2018 Spring Pitch event.

MET Fund launched to support MITdesignX

Seed fund will support venture-design education and entrepreneurship in the School of Architecture and Planning.

April 9, 2019

Israeli and Palestinian fellows from Our Generation Speaks work with MIT student interns at MITdesignX, a venture accelerator in the School of Architecture and Planning, to develop startups that tackle urban and design issues.

Israeli and Palestinian architects and planners seek common ground on innovation, entrepreneurship

Visiting fellows engage with students in the School of Architecture and Planning to create startups aimed at social impact.

March 7, 2019

East Pacific Center Towers, Shenzhen, China.

New connector helps faculty, student startups launch in China

The new connector helps faculty, students, and alumni launch startups in China.

February 14, 2018

Pictured from left: Siqi Zheng, Samuel Tak Lee Associate Professor and faculty director of China Future City Lab; Bin Yang, vice president and provost of Tsinghua University; Martin Schmidt, MIT provost; Richard Lester, MIT associate provost for international activities; Zhengzhen Tan, executive director of China Future City Lab

MIT and Tsinghua University sign urban innovation agreement

Future City Innovation Connector to support projects addressing rapid growth of Chinese cities.

September 19, 2017

The fifteen teams that made their pitches included MIT faculty, students, and alumni. Participants came from every major unit of the School of Architecture and Planning, as well as the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Schools of Science and Engineering.

DesignX selects first cohort

Eight student teams join MIT’s newest entrepreneurship accelerator.

December 14, 2016

Dennis Frenchman, the Class of 1922 Professor of Urban Design and Planning in the School of Architecture and Planning.

3Q: Dennis Frenchman on the rise of innovation districts in Cambridge and beyond

MIT professor explains how “productive neighborhoods” can remake cities.

November 28, 2016

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