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From Periscope House to Material Futures: A Dialogue with J. Jih
Periscope House in Boston reimagines domestic architecture with soft edges and sensory cues. Architect J. Jih explains the design approach and their ongoing collaboration with Skylar Tibbits at MIT aimed at expanding mat
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Payette’s Ragon Building Redefines Biomedical Research Spaces
A collaboration between MIT, Harvard, and Mass General Hospital, the new institute advances vaccine development—including efforts toward an HIV cure.
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The 2023 Responsible Disruptors Making an Impact in Tech
Metropolis’s Responsible Disruptors program honors A&D technology projects that use innovation as a force for good.
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Surfacing the Stories Hidden in Migration Data
A winner of Metropolis's second-annual Responsible Disruptors program, the Civic Data Design Lab at MIT explores new ways of looking at a humanitarian crisis.
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Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman’s Spatializing Justice Reinterprets Architecture as a Social Medium
In their latest book, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman propose a new kind of architecture that confronts social and economic inequality and uneven urban growth.
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Creating a Gleaming New Gateway at MIT
Weiss/Manfredi's 314 Main Street works with other new buildings on the east edge of the legendary campus to create a new center of energy.
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An MIT Study Shows Design Can Increase Engagement
A group of researchers at MIT found that the right level of crowdedness led to more chance encounters and more frequent communication across disciplinary boundaries.
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Profiles
Mariam Kamara Could Profoundly Change Design Pedagogy Everywhere
The Niger-based architect Mariam Kamara's rapidly growing practice informs a series of lectures she has delivered recently at MIT, Columbia University GSAPP, the African Futures Institute in Ghana, and Harvard GSD.
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Skylar Tibbits Says Materials Science Will Make Our World Less Digital—and More Wondrous
Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution is the designer and MIT Self-Assembly Lab Director’s latest investigation into how new materials research will impact design.
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How Textile Designers Can “Hack” Fabrication Technologies and Techniques
For this six-part series, Metropolis asked the textile industry's foremost experts what inspires them—here's what Susan Lyons, president of Designtex, told us.
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MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab Showcases a New 3D Printing Process at Design Miami/ 2017
The new technique, dubbed Rapid Liquid Printing, has broad potential to make 3D printing cheaper, faster, and more versatile.
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New Book from MIT Honors Pioneering Graphic Designer Muriel Cooper
Cooper is not in the pantheon of "great men" of graphic design, despite being the rare or even singular figure whose achievements were marked in both print and digital media.
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MIT Researchers Develop All-in-One Robotic Furniture System
Developed with Yves Béhar, Ori hopes to solve the problem of cramped urban living with app-based, "smart" furniture.
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Could Sewage Sensors Help Us Address the Opioid Crisis?
A new start-up believes that wastewater analysis could empower cities to proactively tackle the opioid epidemic.
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MIT, Steelcase to 3D Print Custom Designs on Demand
In its quest to create the ultimate customizable furniture, Steelcase teamed up with MIT to develop a new digital fabrication technology.
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These Innovative Materials Will Redefine Our Future
The new book Transmaterial Next, by Blaine Brownell, catalogues remarkable innovations in material science, from the lightest substances ever made to self-assembling robotic cubes.
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MIT on the Frontier: An Interview with Hashim Sarkis
We speak with MIT Dean Hashim Sarkis about the university's truly remarkable presence at this year's Venice Biennale.
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MIT’s Memory Matrix Installation: Preserving Culture in Digital Perpetuity
This installation physically and cryptographically commemorates monuments across the globe that have been destroyed by conflict.
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Review: MIT Publications Tackle the Future of Infrastructural Innovation
Twin volumes from MIT's Center for Advanced Urbanism explore the cultural implications of infrastructure.
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Can Laboratory Research Be a Kind of Design?
Researchers in labs across the country are getting their hands dirty and prototyping ideas at every scale, from molecules to cities. Their findings will have a profound impact on our world.