The Visual Arts Program fosters and develops collaborative interdisciplinary relationships with programs in architecture, urban planning, media arts and sciences, mechanical engineering, and other disciplines.

Architecture - Department of Architecture
The Department of Architecture is a rich and varied educational environment for the study and practice of architecture and art. It has strong traditions of concern for human values, and for finding appropriate roles for architecture in society. It is a place where the individual creativity of a student can be cultivated and nurtured in a framework of values that is humanistically, socially, and environmentally responsible.
http://architecture.mit.edu

CAVS - Center for Advanced Visual Studies
The Center for Advanced Visual Studies promotes collaborations at M.I.T. between artists, scientists, and technologists to examine relationships between science, technology and contemporary culture.
http://cavs.mit.edu

CMS - Comparative Media Studies is the examination of media technologies and their cultural, social, aesthetic, political, ethical, legal, and economic implications. At MIT, students will be trained to think critically about properties of different media and about the shared properties and functions of media more generally. The CMS Program offers a two-year course of study leading to a Masters of Science degree and an undergraduate BSAD degree.
http://cms.mit.edu

HTC - History, Theory and Criticism
Its mission has been to generate advanced research within MIT's School of Architecture and to promote critical and theoretical reflection within the disciplines of architectural and art history. Students and faculty work in a variety of fields, covering diverse parts of the globe. Commitment to depth and diversity is an integral part of HTC's identity and one of the reasons for the success of its students, who come to Cambridge from around the world.
http://architecture.mit.edu/htc

GSD - Harvard Graduate School of Design
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/

Media Lab - Media Arts and Science
In its first decade, much of the Laboratory's activity centered around abstracting electronic content from its traditional physical representations, helping to create now-familiar areas such as digital video and multimedia. The success of this agenda is now leading to a growing focus on how electronic information overlaps with the everyday physical world. The Laboratory pioneered collaboration between academia and industry, and provides a unique environment to explore basic research and applications, without regard to traditional divisions among disciplines.
http://www.media.mit.edu/

STS - Science, Technology, and Society
This program attempts to increase understanding of the human-built world. In this world, science and technology have broken through the walls of industry and of the laboratory to become an inextricable and determining element of nature, culture, and history. Faculty and students in the Program address two basic, interrelated questions: how did science and technology evolve as human activities, and what role do they play in the larger civilization?
http://web.mit.edu/sts

AI - Artificial Intelligence
The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has been an active entity at MIT in one form or another since at least 1959. Our goal is to understand the nature of intelligence and to engineer systems that exhibit intelligence. We are an interdisciplinary laboratory of over 200 people that spans several academic departments and has active projects ongoing with members of every academic school at MIT. Our intellectual goal is to understand how the human mind works. We believe that vision, robotics, and language are the keys to understanding intelligence, and as such our laboratory is much more heavily biased in these directions than many other Artificial Intelligence laboratories
http://www.ai.mit.edu/