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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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Moving Health unveils new ambulance design

News | Mar 28, 2023 | 3News

3News (Ghana)
Moving Health unveils new ambulance design

Giving refugees design education — and newfound hope

MIT D-Lab students at the Faros Horizon Center in Athens, Greece, teaching the design process through hands-on learning to refugee youth from Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Photo: Faros Horizon Center

News | Mar 23, 2023 | Zach Winn

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Giving refugees design education — and newfound hope

Gaining insight into public health in rural Turkana County, Kenya

Workshop participants gathered in the Lorengelup Dispensary maternity ward for activities. From left to right: Christine Louriyen (TBI research assistant and Turkana translator), Chief Sarah Pedo, Elizabeth Eporon (mother), Rebecca Akal (mother), Acacia Leakey (TBI), Soad Mana (D-Lab), Joyce Apus (Lorengelup Dispensary worker), Alice Kosiyae (mother), Ipshita Karmakar (D-Lab), and Shulammite Lim (D-Lab). Photo: Courtesy MIT D-Lab

Blog | Mar 02, 2023 | Shulammite Lim

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Gaining insight into public health in rural Turkana County, Kenya

Creative Capacity Building for Circular Economy Design in Cochabamba, Bolivia - Part 2

The MIT D-Lab with community partners all proudly displaying their Creative Capacity Building  workshop certificates of completion. Photo: Courtesy MIT D-Lab

Blog | Mar 01, 2023 | IAP D-Lab: Development & D-Lab: Gender and Development Teams

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Creative Capacity Building for Circular Economy Design in Cochabamba, Bolivia - Part 2

Creative Capacity Building for Circular Economy Design in Cochabamba, Bolivia - Part 1

One of seven teams showing the plastic shredder they designed and created during the Creative Capacity Building workshop. The team was comprised of MIT D-Lab students, Bolivian university students, and local waste pickers or ecorecolectoras. Photo: Courtesy MIT D-Lab

Blog | Feb 16, 2023 | 2023 IAP D-Lab: Development & D-Lab: Gender and Development Teams

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Creative Capacity Building for Circular Economy Design in Cochabamba, Bolivia - Part 1

Designing an off-grid chick brooder using thermal batteries made from beeswax.

Members of the team working on the thermal box construction for the chick brooder. Photo: African Solar Generation (video capture)

Video | Feb 13, 2023 | African Solar Generation

African Solar Generation
Designing an off-grid chick brooder using thermal batteries made from beeswax.

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The Power of Co-Design: Advancing Global Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health

Smiling woman holding up handmade cloth mentrual pad.

This three-day conference, running November 7th to 9th, explores how co-design has enhanced sexual and reproductive health in communities in Colombia, Kenya, Brazil, and Peru. Participants will engage in co-design activities in an effort to develop a global network of researchers and activists committed to providing women and girls opportunities to design solutions to the sexual and reproductive health challenges they are facing in their lives. REGISTER!

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