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CSAIL researchers have developed a visualization tool for CAD that, for the first time, lets users instead interactively explore all designs that best fit multiple, often-conflicting performance tradeoffs, in real time.

Design tool reveals a product’s many possible performance tradeoffs

Users can quickly visualize designs that optimize multiple parameters at once.

August 15, 2018

Advanced Fiber workshop participants compare the differences between weft knit and warp knit for sweater construction at FIT in New York City. Pictured (clockwise from left) are Veronica Apsan, Melanie Wong, Jesse Doherty, Erika Anderson, Sebastian Pattinson, David Merchan, and Calvin Zhong.

Inventing future fabrics

Advanced Functional Fabrics of America workshop challenges pioneering MIT and FIT students to conceive new ideas.

July 31, 2018

J. Meejin Yoon named dean of Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning

July 24, 2018

An atmospheric scene, called "Forest," with video from thesilentwatcher.com, is part of the Mediated Atmospheres project by Nan Zhao.

Smart office enables a personalized workplace atmosphere

Project out of the MIT Media Lab uses biosensors and machine learning to optimize the sensory experience in individual work environments.

July 13, 2018

Dennis Frenchman, the Class of 1922 Professor of Urban Design and Planning, is the newly appointed director of the MIT Center for Real Estate.

Dennis Frenchman named head of the MIT Center for Real Estate

Architect and urban designer brings to the role decades of global expertise on the transformation of cities

July 2, 2018

QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2018-19

Ranked at the top for the seventh straight year, the Institute also places first in 12 of 48 disciplines.

June 6, 2018

MIT startup teams meet with Chinese industry partners at the China Future City Lab demo day.

China Venture Workshop announces first cohort

Ten teams will collaborate with local partners, pilot solutions to urban challenges.

May 31, 2018

Anne Whiston Spirn (left), the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, has been honored with the Design Mind award by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Neri Oxman (right), the Sony Corporation Career Development Professor, received the Interaction Design award.

Spirn, Oxman win Cooper Hewitt design awards

School of Architecture and Planning professors receive national recognition for excellence, innovation, and impact through design.

May 30, 2018

Seven new projects focusing on solutions to water and food systems challenges, led by 11 faculty principal investigators across five MIT departments, will be funded by the Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) with two-year grants of up to $200,000.

J-WAFS awards over $1.3 million in fourth round of seed grant funding

Eleven principal investigators from six MIT departments will receive grants totaling over $1.3 million, overhead free, for research on food and water challenges.

May 25, 2018

Ann Lui (left) is co-curator of the U.S. Pavilion and Gabriel Kozlowski is co-curator of the Brazilian Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale.

MIT alumni curate pavilions at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale

Exhibitions tackle global questions with research-based approaches.

May 24, 2018

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Senseable City Lab have designed a fleet of autonomous boats that offer high maneuverability and precise control.

Fleet of autonomous boats could service some cities, reducing road traffic

Researchers design 3-D-printed, driverless boats that can provide transport and self-assemble into other floating structures.

May 23, 2018

The 16th Venice Architecture Biennale will be open to the public May 26 - Nov. 25.

MIT returns to the Venice Architecture Biennale

Faculty, students, and alumni contribute as curators and exhibitors at the world’s premier forum for architecture and design.

May 4, 2018

Students get hands-on at Maker Break, the first annual celebration of making at MIT.

Maker Break: A celebration of making at MIT

Over 700 students and makers joined in the first annual participatory showcase of fabrication and crafts around the Institute.

May 4, 2018

Signifying the forest, the Climate Changed Symposium dinner appetizer was a trio of dried, preserved and foraged mushrooms — fungi known to help the soil store carbon dioxide and thus slow the pace of climate change.

What will we eat in the year 2050?

Climate Changed Symposium combines art and science to envision the global food system under climate change.

April 30, 2018

“We want to give teachers whatever tools they need to connect the joy, wonder, and fun in our videos to the underlying concepts that their students are learning,” says OK Go lead singer Damian Kulash, who is working with MIT alumna AnnMarie Thomas to parlay STEAM principles from his music videos into PK-12 lessons.

Rock music helps students and educators explore engineering

Playful Learning Lab, founded by AnnMarie Thomas ’01, is collaborating with rock band OK Go to create hands-on PK-12 engineering experiences.

April 20, 2018

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