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MAD Community Highlights at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

MIT D-Lab students design global energy solutions through collaboration

The MIT Morningside Academy for Design welcomes D-Lab into its growing design ecosystem

Communities at the Center

At MIT, Musicians Make New Tools for New Tunes

Designing a First Year at MIT

Design + Education: an interview with Paola Antonelli

Grad student combines technology, education, and human connection to improve online learning

Event Replay: MAD in Dialogue

MIT Community at the Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Carlo Ratti

Inaugural Morningside Academy for Design Professorships named

Event Replay: Speculative Climate Design

Merging Design and Computer Science in Creative Ways

Improving breast prostheses for mastectomy patients

Luna: A Moon on Earth

Jack Bolte ’28 Uses Data to Enhance Swimming Performance

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MAD at the Venice Biennale

May 10 – Nov 23, 2025

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VAMO—Vegetal, Animal, Mineral, Other

AI-Enabled Design of Electroactive Surfaces for Sustainable Cell Culture

Aligning the useful and environmental lifetimes of plastics

Strengthening orthothic and prosthetic care globally

Accessibility of online graphics for blind and low-vision users

Human-AI interaction in generative design

Using AI and Immersive Technologies to Experience the Future Self and Support Sustainable Dietary Choices

Portable Kitchens

Helping Children Engage with Climate Change Through Play

Nature-based solutions for coastal resilience

Smart textile systems

Shaping future designers

Using technology to improve life in informal settlements

Deployable Water Desalination System

Advancing computational design and fabrication through metamaterials

VAMO—Vegetal, Animal, Mineral, Other

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VAMO—Vegetal, Animal, Mineral, Other

Shaping future designers

Advancing computational design and fabrication through metamaterials

Aligning the useful and environmental lifetimes of plastics

Human-AI interaction in generative design

Deployable Water Desalination System

Jonathan Bessette

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MAD Community Highlights at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale
MIT D-Lab students design global energy solutions through collaboration
The MIT Morningside Academy for Design welcomes D-Lab into its growing design ecosystem

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MAD at the Venice Biennale

Projects

VAMO—Vegetal, Animal, Mineral, Other
AI-Enabled Design of Electroactive Surfaces for Sustainable Cell Culture
Aligning the useful and environmental lifetimes of plastics

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