SA+P Five: April 4, 2019

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SA+P FIVE: April 4, 2019
News, announcements, resources, and events from our School community.

A shape-shifting airplane wing

Engineers from the Center for Bits and Atoms and NASA have built and tested a radically new kind of airplane wing, assembled from hundreds of tiny identical pieces. This new approach to wing construction could afford greater flexibility in the design and manufacturing of future aircraft. MIT News.

Bringing neighborhood roots to urban planning

Hurricane Katrina forced Dasjon Jordan’s family from New Orleans. Now a DUSP graduate student, he approaches city planning with an affinity for local, place-based solutions to economic disparities and racial divisions. MIT News.

Bauhaus meets binary

AIGA Eye on Design tells the story of Muriel Cooper's Visible Language Workshop, the MIT Media Lab research group that turned computer code into a modern design medium, through the stories of the students and creative programmers she inspired.

"Protocols for the Permanently Peripatetic"

HTC PhD candidate Nushelle de Silva received a Paul Mellon Centre Junior Fellowship to support her dissertation research on post-WWII circulating exhibitions. Learn more about the research projects the Centre supports.

How can artists reimagine the internet?

ACT graduate student Gary Zhexi Zhang contemplates the evolution of the World Wide Web and how we could build a better internet or at least attempt to see it for what it really is. The Walker Art Center Soundboard.

SA+P alumni in the media: recent coverage

Turning Points in Architecture, Design, and Research

On April 12-13, 2019, join the MIT Architecture community in Cambridge for Turning Points in Architecture, Design, and Research, a two-day event and symposium to close the year-long celebration of 150 years of architecture education at MIT.
Learn more and RSVP.

Graduate Student Appreciation Week

On April 1-5, 2019, MIT celebrates Graduate and Professional Students Appreciation Week. From chocolate, stickers, and temporary tattoos to Goat Yoga and sleep and stress-busting workshops, all week MIT is honoring these talented and accomplished people for the contributions they make to our community. See a list of resources and activities.

“The past is in the present”

Rosalyne Shieh’s Keller Gallery exhibition project pieces together an ongoing story of Taiwan, kinship, migration, identity as a political act, loss, and hope, evolving over time. Visit the exhibition for conversations with Shieh on Tuesdays at 12-1pm, spontaneously at unscheduled times, and by appointment. On view through April 19.

Around SA+P this week

Thursday
MIT China Future City Lab | Urban China Workshop: "Jennifer Chia-Lynn Hsieh"

Monday
Architecture | AKPIA lecture series: "Panel Discussion with Artist Julie Mehretu"
SA+P | Yoga and Mindfulness

Tuesday
Architecture | Conversations: Rosalyne Shieh, "The past is in the present"
SA+P | Yoga and Mindfulness

*** Save the date ***
April 11: MIT China Future City Lab, Urban China Workshop: "Su Dongling"
April 12–13: Symposium: Turning Points in Architecture, Design, and Research
April 16: Project Manus, "Maker Break"
April 18: "A Conversation About Race with Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum"
May 1: Intellectual Commons event series featuring Mary Robinson, “Climate Justice Can Help Secure a Good Future for All”
May 10 and 11: Reconstruction as Violence: The Case of Aleppo
May 20 and 21: MIT Center for Real Estate, “MIT World Real Estate Forum”
Spring 2019: Architecture's 150th Anniversary

Ongoing exhibitions and activities
ACT | "Joan Jonas: Sources and Methods"
E14 Gallery | "Schoenberg in Hollywood"
Gallery 9 | "Arrival Studio | Athens"
Keller Gallery | "Rosalyne Shieh: The past is in the present"
Dean's Gallery | "What if...?"
MIT List | "Kapwani Kiwanga"
MIT List | “Kathleen Ryan: Cultivator”
MIT Museum | "Drawing, Designing, Thinking: 150 Years of Teaching Architecture at MIT"

Bookmark the MIT events calendar for a full schedule of events.

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