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Working with people around the world to develop and advance collaborative approaches and practical solutions to global poverty challenges.

Creating, sharing, and using collaborative research practices, actionable findings, and practical solutions.

Hands-on, project-based learning. More than 15 MIT D-Lab classes offered each year!

Working with diverse partners to advance and apply inclusive innovation as a methodology for tackling poverty.

"Impact is not just the product of innovation – it's the process of innovation."

– Amy Smith, MIT D-Lab Founding Director

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MIT D-Lab works to empower artisanal women miners in Colombia

Women engaged in a co-design exercise to address environmental challenges in mining regions at a national conference of women artisanal miners in Medellin, Colombia. Credits: Photo: Fabio Bayona

News | Nov 06, 2023 | Danna Lorch | MIT D-Lab | Office of the Associate Provost for International Activities

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MIT D-Lab works to empower artisanal women miners in Colombia

Designing cleaner vehicles

MIT graduate student Adi Mehrotra ’22 is working on sustainable solutions in vehicle design, including a hydrogen-powered motorcycle. Credits: Photo: Gretchen Ertl

News | Nov 01, 2023 | Olivia Young | Office of Graduate Education

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Designing cleaner vehicles

The Best Inventions of 2023: A Battlefield OR SurgiBox SurgiField

SurgiBox SurgiField. Photo: Time Magazine

News | Oct 24, 2023 | Chris Stokel-Walker

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The Best Inventions of 2023: A Battlefield OR SurgiBox SurgiField

Machine learning to optimize biofuel production

Left: MIT D-Lab Research Scientist Dan Sweeney. Right: Johlesa Orm '26. Photo: MIT D-Lab

Blog | Oct 20, 2023 | Johlesa Orm

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Machine learning to optimize biofuel production

Addressing high rates of teenage pregnancy and HIV/AIDS in Kenya with Creative Capacity Building

Facilitators and workshop leaders. Second from left, Faith Kathoka, consultant to SEP from World Food Programme; and MIT D-Lab students Sarah Wandia, MIT ’24; Michelle Lee, Wellesley ’23; and Laureen Andalib, Harvard MDes ’23. Photo: SEP Kenya

Blog | Oct 19, 2023 | Sarah Wandia , Laureen Andalib, Michelle Lee

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Addressing high rates of teenage pregnancy and HIV/AIDS in Kenya with Creative Capacity Building

Increasing access to fresh fruit and vegetables with forced-air evaporative cooling chamber

 Forced-air evaporative cooling chamber powered by solar photovoltaic (PV) panels in Kibwezi, Kenya.

Blog | Sep 27, 2023 | Eric Verploegen, Leon Glicksman

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Increasing access to fresh fruit and vegetables with forced-air evaporative cooling chamber

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Take an MIT D-Lab class and become an effective agent of global change while at MIT and beyond!

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Through D-Lab's suite of MIT classes, students acquire competency in the participatory design process, understand and apply principles of engineering and design, engage in hands-on shop work, learn to think critically about theories of development, and obtain meaningful experiences in the field - all preparing students to continue socially and environmentally conscious work that addresses issues of global poverty. Find out more about the MIT D-Lab Academics Program!

Spring 2024 Classes

  • D-LAB: DESIGN 
    2.722J/EC.720  Squibb
  • INTRODUCTION TO ENERGY IN GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
    2.651/EC.711/EC.791 (G)  Sweeney
  • D-LAB: LEADERSHIP IN DESIGN
    EC.725  Squibb
  • MOBILES FOR DEVELOPMENT
    EC.751, EC.793 (G)  Lee, McDonald
  • D-LAB: WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE
    11.474 (G), EC.715  Hsu, Murcott
  • D-LAB: WATER, CLIMATE CHANGE & HEALTH
    EC.719 / EC.789 (G) Murcott, Simpson
  • TERRASCOPE: DESIGN FOR COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
    EC.746J / 2.00C / 1.016J  Epstein, Hsu

 

 

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