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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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PODCAST: Design for a more equitable world with Dr. Ana Pantelic

Ana Pantelic, executive director, MIT D-Lab. Photo: MIT D-Lab

News | May 30, 2023 | Michelle Grant

The Great Full
PODCAST: Design for a more equitable world with Dr. Ana Pantelic

Bringing safe surgery to patients everywhere

The MIT D-Lab-supported startup SurgiBox has developed a portable kit that doctors can use to create sterile operating environments in low-resource environments. The SurgiBox system includes a bubble with armholes facing inward, a module that filters and controls air flow, and a battery. The entire thing fits inside of a backpack and can be set up in minutes. Credits: Image: Courtesy of SurgiBox

News | May 22, 2023 | Zach Winn

MIT News
Bringing safe surgery to patients everywhere

Webinar: Open-Source Fruit and Vegetable Cooling Chamber

Webinar: Open-Source Fruit and Vegetable Cooling Chamber

Video | May 17, 2023 | Eric Verploegen

MIT D-Lab
Webinar: Open-Source Fruit and Vegetable Cooling Chamber

Making Sustainable Design, From the Classroom to the World / Daniel Sweeney MIT D Lab

Presented by the MIT Morningside Academy for Design

Video | May 03, 2023 | MIT Morningside Academy for Design

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Making Sustainable Design, From the Classroom to the World / Daniel Sweeney MIT D Lab

The MIT D-Lab Participation Toolkit: A Suite of Tools for Understanding, Characterizing, and Implementing Participation in Development and Humanitarian Contexts

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs [1], with a design lens. Image: MIT D-Lab/Amy Smith and Martha Thompson

Publication | Apr 25, 2023 | Amy Smith, Martha Thompson

The MIT D-Lab Participation Toolkit: A Suite of Tools for Understanding, Characterizing, and Implementing Participation in Development and Humanitarian Contexts

Alum aims to prove that money does grow on trees

Kwami Williams ’12

News | Apr 25, 2023 | Stephanie M. McPherson

MIT Technology Review
Alum aims to prove that money does grow on trees

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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!

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