Rethinking architecture
Mark Goulthorpe teaches and practices new design and construction logics for the next generation of high-performance buildings.
MIT unveils plans for permanent memorial to Officer Sean Collier
Planned memorial “translates ‘Collier Strong’ into a physical form of strength and connectedness.”
Democratizing data visualization
Study examines use of ‘Exhibit’ tools in creating interactive data visualizations.
Engineering Design Studio brings ‘mind and hand’ to EECS
Students build their own electronics with help from Cypress Semiconductor
International development through dialogue, design, and dissemination
Amy Smith and students at MIT’s D-Lab create products for, and with, communities in the developing world.
Mapping the New York fashion scene, minute by minute
A new study uses social media to show how New York’s fashion industry still centers on just a few blocks of Manhattan.
Media Lab’s Neri Oxman awarded Vilcek Prize
Architect and designer recognized for leading-edge design inspired by biology
3 Questions: Alan Berger on cities and health
New report from MIT’s Center for Advanced Urbanism examines the best ways to help public health in metropolitan areas.
‘Cool’ invention wins first place at MADMEC
Thermoelectric bracelet that helps people maintain a comfortable body temperature takes home $10,000 from MIT’s annual materials-science design competition.
Targeting product design for the developing world
The key, MIT study finds, is designing products that make money for the microentrepreneur.
Switching stances
MIT graduate student Alexis Sablone balances an athletic career and coursework in architecture.
Students with toys: Not just playing around
In mechanical engineering department’s toy-design class, teams design creative board games, plush toys and puzzles.
Reducing wasted energy in commercial buildings
Much energy is wasted heating and cooling indoor spaces when no one or almost no one is present. Now, MIT researchers have used their own campus to demonstrate a means of measuring that energy/occupancy mismatch.
Science students hold design-thinking workshop
Program aims to help students gain perspective on new methodologies, improve overall research skills.