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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 12 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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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

Alum Aims to Prove that Money Does Grow on Trees

MIT D-Lab alum Kwami Willimas alum, co-founder MoringaConnect. Photo: Courtesy of True Moringa

News | Dec 07, 2022 | Stephanie M. McPherson SM '11

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Alum Aims to Prove that Money Does Grow on Trees

Design D-Lab Marks 20 Years of Empowering Communities

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 | Nov 10, 2022 | Michael Blanding

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Design D-Lab Marks 20 Years of Empowering Communities

MIT D-Lab at 20: Reflections on the Student Experience

Joshua Maldonado, SB '22.

Video | Oct 21, 2022 | Marinovich Media

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MIT D-Lab at 20: Reflections on the Student Experience

MIT President Reif Congratulates D-Lab on its 20th Anniversary

Building 10 on the MIT Campus.

Blog | Oct 20, 2022 | Nancy Adams

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MIT President Reif Congratulates D-Lab on its 20th Anniversary

MIT D-Lab featured at MIT Museum in Essential MIT exhibit

MIT Museum visitors viewing the D-Lab exhibits, which include a clay pot cooler,  a Saathi pad, biomass briquetting technlogies, and the SurgiBox. Photo: MIT D-Lab

News | Oct 19, 2022 | MIT D-Lab

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MIT D-Lab featured at MIT Museum in Essential MIT exhibit

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

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Through MIT D-Lab 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 international development, and obtain meaningful experiences in the field!

Fall 2025 Classes

Design for Scale
EC.729 / 2.729 / EC.797 (G) / 2.789 (G)
TR11:30-1 (lecture), R1-2.30 (lab)
Mathieu Aguesse, Macauley Kenney, Maria Yang

Applications of Energy in Global Development
2.652 / EC.712 / EC.782 (G)
TR3-5

D-Lab: Development
11.025 / 11.472 (G) / EC.701 / EC.781 (G)
MWF3:30-5
Libby Hsu, Bish Sanyal

D-Lab: Gender & Development
EC.718 / EC.798 (G) / WGS.277
W9:30-12:30
Libby McDonald, Sally Haslanger

 

 

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