LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

March 6  |  Department of Architecture Spring 2025 Lectures
Rebecca Choi
Presented with the HTC Forum
Information
Register here or watch the webcast on Youtube.
Long Lounge (7-429)
6:00 pm

March 7  | 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: The Moving World Report 2025
Speaker:  Adam Grosser
Registration
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)

March 11  |  Books and Bites: Exploring technovernacular creativity
Information
Rotch Library (7-238)
5:00-7:00 pm

March 10  |  Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons 
Jonathan Tarleton MCP '18 discusses his new book and introduces readers to two social housing co-ops in New York City where residents are pondering significant changes. 
Information
9-255
12:30-2:00 pm

March 11  |  Books and Bites: Exploring technovernacular creativity
Information
Rotch Library (7-238)
5:00-7:00 pm

March 13  |  Department of Architecture Spring 2025 Lectures
Linda Zhang
Presented with the Architecture and Urbanism Group
Information and registration
Long Lounge (7-429)
6:00 pm

March 14  | 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:  Cities, transit, and the future of working from home
Speaker:  Nick Bloom
Registration
12:00-1:00 pm (ET)

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
6:00-6:00 pm (ET)

April 17  | Save the date: 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)
10:00-11:30 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  

March 7-8  |  Kevin McLellan |  States
Videos featuring kinetic typography will display portions and complete text of McLellan’s poem “States,” projected onto an exterior wall of the MIT Weisner Building. Begins at 7:00 pm each evening.
Information
MIT Weisner Building (E15)
7:00 pm

Through March 13  |  Vinzenz Aubry | Public Eyes
A generative video installation by Vinzenz Aubry (SMACT '25) that engages viewers with a circle of animated digital eyes that respond to human presence. 
MIT Lobby 13
105 Mass Ave.

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 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 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 July 28, 2025  | 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 2025  |  Mise-en-scène: Commemorative Toile (1992-93)
Currently on view at the Art Institute's Contemporary Art Gallery is ACT Professor Green's 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.
More information
Art Institute of Chicago

Ongoing | HOOPcycle 
A mobile art installation conceptualized by Architecture's Rafi Segal and artist Marisa Morán Jahn (SMVisS '07).
More information.
MIT Museum

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SA+P Wellness Program for Spring 2025
Yoga and Mindfulness
Tuesday 5:30-6:45 pm in-person (9-255) and online | Connect via Zoom here 

Virtual exhibitions and activities
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