SA+P’s growing role in MIT’s Energy Initiative
Mise-en-scene of light-redirecting materials from Marilyne Andersen's project to evaluate fenestration systems.
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SA+P’s lead role in Transportation@MIT MIT and MassArt to unveil new visitor-friendly signage for Boston Tomes & Domes exhibition opens in Rotch Library Of note: Race, Politics and American Media Concrete Sustainability Hub launched at MIT The Red Sox' swing doctor The art and craft of Greene & Greene Exploring the realities of realty
videos

- Audio, visual.
- Metropath(ologies) is an installation about living in a world overflowing with information and non-stop communication.

- Electrochromic windows.
- In this design, the relationship between both the active and passive elements of the architecture are programmed as an interactive system where each c...

- The future calls.
- The Media Lab's Next Billion Network is looking at ways cell phones can help their next wave of new users.

- High-tech carpooling.
- The MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory, in partnership with the Provincia di Brescia, in Italy, is developing a sustainable ride-sharing system for yout...

- Chameleon Guitar.
- Media Lab graduate student Amit Zoran has made a guitar that's part computer.

- Media Lab's chameleon guitar.
- The Chameleon Guitar embodies a unique combination of traditional acoustic values and digital capabilities.

- Robotic desk lamp.
- This video shows AUR, a robotic desk lamp, autonomously assisting a user working in a desk environment.
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Wodiczko exhibit on veterans open at the ICA
Good food nation

MIT researchers think America's obesity epidemic can be reversed via ‘foodsheds,’ in which healthier, more affordable food is produced and consumed regionally.
architecture and planning links
School of Architecture + Planning
- Homepage of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning
Media Lab
- The MIT Media Lab applies an unorthodox research approach to envision the impact of emerging technologies on everyday life.
Urban Studies and Planning
- Since its inception in 1933, the Department of Urban Studies and Planning has consistently remained one of the top planning schools in the country.
Department of Architecture
- Homepage for MIT’s Department of Architecture
MIT Center for Real Estate
- The Center strives to improve the quality of the built environment and to promote more informed professional practice in the global real estate industry.
Visual Arts Program
- The Visual Arts Program emphasizes experimentation and transdisciplinary approaches to studio production in both traditional and new media.

