Planetary Play: Design for Outer Space

The MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) is an interdisciplinary hub for design education, research, and entrepreneurship. MAD aims to educate future generations in design, foster design innovation, and encourage entrepreneurship to empower individual and collective problem-solving capacity around the globe.

MIT Morningside Academy for Design

Combine your passion for space with the power of design in this hands-on workshop!

Ragon Institute

MIT MAD at the Cambridge Science Festival

This year, for its annual "Power of Design" event, MIT MAD explores how design transforms learning through four workshops as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.

Combine your passion for space with the power of design in this hands-on workshop! This immersive event combines a passion for outer space with the power of design. Through short talks and hands-on workshops, students and educators will gain tools to explore how to design for outer space and closer to home. We will be joined by Nicholas de Monchaux, author of “Spacesuit” and head of MIT’s Architecture Department, Dr. Cody Paige, Director of the Space Exploration Initiative at the Media Lab, and MIT students studying design and outer space. The workshops will cover the important design learning goals of “research and interviews,” “low fidelity prototyping,” and “ideation.” This event is organized in partnership with <a href="https://www.wpsinstitute.org/" title="https://www.wpsinstitute.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">WPS</a>, whose mission is to catalyze the shift to connected, empowering, and unbounded learning.

<h4>AUDIENCE</h4>In this session, middle and high school teachers are encouraged to sign up with 5-10 of their students. Students and teachers will have the opportunity to work together, and will also break out into student-only and teacher-only groups.

<h4>PERKS</h4>Lunch will be provided and students will get to take their prototypes home.

<h4>THE POWER OF DESIGN TO TRANSFORM LEARNING</h4>This workshop is part of MAD’s Power of Design series, dedicated this year to the ways in which Design Transforms Learning, and a part of <a href="https://cambridgesciencefestival.org/" title="https://cambridgesciencefestival.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cambridge Science Festival</a>. Watch the replays: <a href="https://design.mit.edu/events/the-power-of-design" title="https://design.mit.edu/events/the-power-of-design" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Power of Design 2022</a> — Catalyzing Innovation, Transforming Learning, Empowering Society <a href="https://design.mit.edu/events/the-power-of-design-2023" title="https://design.mit.edu/events/the-power-of-design-2023" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Power of Design 2023</a> — Designing Climate Futures

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