The Living Knitwork Pavilion, constructed by a team from MIT and exhibited at Burning Man 2023, is an interactive architectural installation combining textiles, science, and art on a desert landscape.
Nonabah Lane, a Navajo educator and admired sustainability leader with numerous MIT ties, has died at age 46. She leaves a lasting legacy at MIT and on tribal communities around the country.
it may be science fiction, but one m.i.t. professor says the real thing is coming, and soon. neil gershenfeld is the director of m.i.t. center for bits and atoms. he teaches one of the university s most popular classes called how to make almost anything. and he says the next digital revolution is right around the corner. how would you like to design almost anything you wanted and produce it on demand? so you say the next big digital revolution is in fabrication? yes. explain what that sgleenz what s emerging now is a science of digital fabrication that lets you turn data into things so we can program the physical world. and what it s leading, to the science is how to make the star trek replicator, and the impact is that anybody can make anything. digital fabrication is already used for more than manufacturing prototypes or machine parts. nasa recently awarded $125,000 grant for the development of a