LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

March 28  | MIT Mobility Forum Spring 2025
Weekly seminar series showcasing the groundbreaking transportation research taking place across the Institute. Lectures are online and open to all. Lecture list for semester. 
Topic: Creating the mobility innovation ecosystem — the state and private sector role
Speaker: Stephanie Pollack, Jamey Tesler
Registration
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)

March 31  |  SMArchS Urbanism Lecture Series: Unworlding Energy
Presented with the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism
Nicholas Pevzner
Information and registration
Long Lounge (7-429)
12:00 pm

March 31  |  Department of Architecture Spring 2025 Lectures
Anneka Lenssen
Presented with the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the HTC Forum
Information
Long Lounge (7-429)
6:00 pm

April 2, 3  | Global Commons and New Ecologies
A two-day event launching the MIT-Luma Lab, a collaboration between MIT SA+P and the Luma Foundation to promote research and innovation addressing regional and global climate challenges through bioregional design principles. 
Information and registration
MIT Media Lab and ACT Cube

April 5  | Rural Futures Summit
Speakers will represent a range of rural perspectives, from designers to experts in housing and economic development. 
Information and registration
Hosted by Rural MIT, a DUSP student organization dedicated to rural planning.
10:00 am-6:00 pm (ET)

April 7  | Spring 2025 AKPIA Lecture Series
Topic — Beyond Ruins: Reimagining Modernism
Book launch with co-authors Raafat Majzoub and Nicolas Fayad
3-133
6:00 (ET)

April 10  | Global Climate Adaptation: Overcoming Political and Policy Challenges
This workshop explores the evolving landscape of climate adaptation in the context of recent COP outcomes, financial challenges, and shifting geopolitical dynamics. How can adaptation efforts progress amid these complexities? Workshop organized by the MIT Center for International Studies.
Open to the MIT community. Free but registration required.
45-801
9:00 am-5:30 pm (ET)

April 10  | Can we design AI to support human flourishing? 
Inaugural Advancing Humans with AI symposium with leading researchers and thinkers from industry, academia, and non-profit sector.  Information and symposium livestream link.
Virtual event.
8:30 am-5:00 pm (ET)

April 16  |  MIT Reads
Read the current book Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski and join a discussion. Attend in person or online. The event is free and open to all, but registration is required. Get the book. More information.
The Nexus in Hayden Library
5:00-6:30 pm

April 17  |  Sustainability Connect 2025
An annual meeting for all MIT committees, groups, and thinkers involved in creating game-changing campus sustainability programs at MIT. Information
Samberg Conference Center

April 18  | Territorial Design:  Roundtable and student work exhibition
Organized by Chen Chu MArch '21 and DUSP doctoral candidate, this roundtable convenes four researchers, designers, and educators working across rural and urban contexts. Student projects from the speakers' courses will be exhibited during the event.
Information
Long Lounge (7-429)
10:00-1130 am (ET)

Through May 2  | artfinity
The Institute-wide festival featuring the work of artists from MIT and beyond.
Find the 80+ festival events here

May 29  | SA+P Advanced Degree Ceremony
Information
Kresge Auditorium
11:00 am-12:30 pm (ET)


EXHIBITIONS  

Through April 11  | ROOMS: Forms of Belief, Belief in Forms
This exhibition critically accounts the intersection of belief and modernity, positioning the viewers within an ambiguous ritual—a continuously printing, yet unreachable, machine housed in an altar. 
More information
Wiesner Student Art Gallery (W20-209)

Through April 14  | Interactive Fashion Collection
Ganit Goldstein's Interactive Fashion collection combines cutting-edge sensor technology with wearable design, showcasing garments that adapt, respond, and engage with both the wearer and their audience.
More information
MIT Media Lab, (Floor 2)

Through April 20 | RugLife
A group exhibition featuring the work of 14 contemporary artists who use the rug as a medium to address cultural issues such as religion, technology, social justice, housing, and the environment. Included is Architecture Professor Azra Akšamija's "Palimpsest of '89."
More information
Museum of Craft and Design
San Francisco, CA

Through Spring 2025 | Cosmograph: Speculative Fictions for the New Space Age
An exhibition by DESIGN EARTH — a design studio founded by Architecture’s Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy — bringing art and science together to examine possible futures where outer space is both a frontier for human exploration and new territory for exploitation and development by private enterprise.
More information
MIT Museum

Through July 28  | Encounters with the Collection: Art and Human Rights
Spanning the 19th century to the present, the exhibition explores the ways that artists confront human rights abuses and make human rights visible. One of the pieces featured is Michael Rakowitz’s (SMViS ’98) "The invisible enemy should not exist" (2022).
More information
The William Benton Museum of Art
University of Connecticut 

Through August 2025 | Hallucinating Ideas
ACT's Azra Akšamija's Hallucinating Traditions is a five-channel video installation that utilizes AI to envision future iterations of traditional fashion. Akšamija's speculative designs blur cultural and temporal boundaries, prompting viewers to reconsider the notion of "traditional" as a construct of the imagination.
More information
MIT Museum

Through Summer 2025 | Soft City
The work of Amanda Ugorji MArch '24 and Sophie Weston Chien, "Soft City" is a colorful cotton and wool textile that tells the story of the past, present, and future of Boston’s Black residents and the neighborhoods they live in.
More information
MIT Museum

Through 2025  |  Mise-en-scène: Commemorative Toile (1992-93)
Currently on view at the Art Institute's Contemporary Art Gallery is ACT Professor Renée Green’s installation that evokes the material and social histories of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, while serving as a pivotal example of the artist’s conceptual and iterative approach to installation. Accessioned by the Art Institute in 2020.
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Art Institute of Chicago

Through Spring 2026 | Future Type
Research from the MIT Media Lab's Future Sketches group aims to help us “see” code by using it to make artistically controlled, computer-generated visuals.
More information
MIT Museum

Ongoing | HOOPcycle 
A mobile art installation conceptualized by Architecture's Rafi Segal and artist Marisa Morán Jahn (SMVisS '07).
More information
National Public Housing Museum
Chicago, IL

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Yoga and Mindfulness
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