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 resembling sustainability, well being, structure, city planning, engineering, and social justice.
On Could 1, MAD introduced the 2024 cohort of Design Fellows on the MIT Museum.
Meet the MIT MAD 2024 Design Fellows
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Sofia Chiappero, MCP scholar within the Division of City Research and Planning and MITdesignX affiliate: Chiappero is working across the intersection of group growth and know-how, aiming to handle the challenges confronted by underserved communities vulnerable to displacement in Latin America. By means of 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 last word aim of preserving the id of those communities and giving them visibility for resilient development.
Clemence Couteau, MBA candidate within the MIT Sloan College of Administration: Couteau is tackling the rise of postpartum despair 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 scholar within the Division of Structure: Fernandez explores tips on how to depart from the present building trade, designing alternate options resembling rising buildings with biomaterials, and deploying superior 3D printing applied sciences for constructing.
Charlotte Folinus, PhD candidate within the Division of Mechanical Engineering: Folinus creates new strategies for designing gentle robots, utilizing these instruments to design gentle robots for mild interactions, unsure environments, and lengthy mechanical lifetimes. “I’m actually excited to be surrounded by individuals who can do issues I can not. That is once I’m the most effective model of myself. I feel that is the group I am going to discover right here,” she says.
Alexander Htet Kyaw, grasp’s scholar within the Division of Structure and the Division of Electrical Engineering and Pc Science and MITdesignX affiliate: Htet Kyaw’s present analysis makes use of robotic meeting, multimodal interplay, and generative AI to problem typical manufacturing and fabrication practices. He’s engaged on an AI-driven workflow that interprets design intent into tangible objects via robotic meeting.
Dení López PhD candidate within the Division of City Research and Planning: As a Design Fellow, López makes use of design analysis to judge and prolong the scope of Bicheeche Diidxa’, a long-standing Participatory Motion Analysis 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 position 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 Division of Electrical Engineering and Pc 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 may be utilized to quite a lot of duties, from battery design to accessibility.
Lyle Regenwetter, PhD candidate within the Division of Mechanical Engineering: Regenwetter develops strategies to include design necessities, resembling security constraints and efficiency goals, into the coaching strategy of generative AI fashions.
Zane Schemmer, PhD candidate within the Division of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Schemmer’s analysis goals to attenuate the carbon footprint of the constructed atmosphere by designing environment friendly buildings that contemplate the provision of native supplies.
