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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.
  • Robotic desk lamp.
  • This video shows AUR, a robotic desk lamp, autonomously assisting a user working in a desk environment.

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Anne Whiston Spirn books win multiple awards

'Daring to Look' and 'The Granite Garden' honored

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

  • Media Lab
  • The MIT Media Lab applies an unorthodox research approach to envision the impact of emerging technologies on everyday life — technologies that promise to fundamentally transform our most basic notions of human capabilities.
  • http://www.media.mit.edu/
  • 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. Now totaling close to 60 teaching faculty members, it has the largest planning faculty in the United States.
  • http://dusp.mit.edu/