Since its launch in 2022, the MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) has supported MIT graduate college students with a fellowship, permitting recipients to pursue design analysis and tasks whereas creating group. Pulling from completely different corners of design, they discover options in fields similar to sustainability, well being, structure, city planning, engineering, and social justice.
On May 1, MAD announced the 2024 cohort of Design Fellows on the MIT Museum.
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Meet the MIT MAD 2024 Design Fellows
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Sofia Chiappero, MCP pupil within the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and MITdesignX affiliate: Chiappero is working across the intersection of group growth and expertise, aiming to deal with the challenges confronted by underserved communities prone to displacement in Latin America. Through a mix of social science and digital inclusion, she seeks to design a brand new method to researching human interactions and replicating them in digital settings, with the final word purpose of preserving the identification of those communities and giving them visibility for resilient progress.
Clemence Couteau, MBA candidate within the MIT Sloan School of Management: Couteau is tackling the rise of postpartum melancholy amongst U.S. moms by aiming to develop a digital answer empowering at-risk pregnant ladies to enhance psychological well being outcomes. This entails a self-directed remedy chatbot in a cellular app, based mostly on the “ROSE” protocol.
Mateo Fernandez, MArch pupil within the Department of Architecture: Fernandez explores the right way to depart from the present development business, designing alternate options similar to rising buildings with biomaterials, and deploying superior 3D printing applied sciences for constructing.
Charlotte Folinus, PhD candidate within the Department of Mechanical Engineering: Folinus creates new strategies for designing delicate robots, utilizing these instruments to design delicate robots for mild interactions, unsure environments, and lengthy mechanical lifetimes. “I am really excited to be surrounded by people who can do things I cannot. That’s when I’m the best version of myself. I think that’s the community I’ll find here,” she says.
Alexander Htet Kyaw, grasp’s pupil within the Department of Architecture and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and MITdesignX affiliate: Htet Kyaw’s present analysis makes use of robotic meeting, multimodal interplay, and generative AI to problem standard manufacturing and fabrication practices. He is engaged on an AI-driven workflow that interprets design intent into tangible objects by robotic meeting.
Dení López PhD candidate within the Department of Urban Studies and Planning: As a Design Fellow, López makes use of design analysis to guage and lengthen the scope of Bicheeche Diidxa’, a long-standing Participatory Action Research initiative for catastrophe resilience centered on 5 Zapotec communities alongside the Los Perros River in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Caitlin Morris, PhD candidate in media arts and sciences: Morris’s analysis explores the function of multisensory influences on cognition and studying, and seeks to search out and construct the bridges between digital and computational interfaces and hands-on, community-centered studying and educating practices.
Maxine Perroni-Scharf, PhD candidate within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science: Perroni-Scharf is presently engaged on creating methods that allow the invention and design of extremal metamaterials — 3D printed supplies that exhibit excessive properties arising not from their chemical composition, however fairly from their construction. These will be utilized to quite a lot of duties, from battery design to accessibility.
Lyle Regenwetter, PhD candidate within the Department of Mechanical Engineering: Regenwetter develops strategies to include design necessities, similar to security constraints and efficiency targets, into the coaching means of generative AI fashions.
Zane Schemmer, PhD candidate within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Schemmer’s analysis goals to reduce the carbon footprint of the constructed surroundings by designing environment friendly constructions that take into account the provision of native supplies.