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The MAD fellowship provides
freedom for graduate students

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to explore in their
areas of passion

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and to bring their design
skills to the world's problems.

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I really want to help
address one of the pressing

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issues that our
generation is facing,

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which is climate change.

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The crisis of
biodiversity is also

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a crisis of ethnodiversity.

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We need radically different
ways of consuming, producing,

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and restoring.

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I believe that design is able to
expand the way that we approach

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not just our industries and
the impacts that we have

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on the world physically,
but literally

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our relationships to each
other, our relationships

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to the ecosystem,
our relationships

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to the past and the cosmos,
and everything beyond.

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Every year, our MAD
Fellows tackle a range

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of challenging problems.

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I study floodplain agriculture.

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My project has two objectives --

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climate change resilience
and food production.

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I'm studying nature
based solutions

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for coastal adaptation,
specifically how

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different configurations
of oyster reef restoration

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strategies influence
wave attenuation.

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My current PhD project is on
designing a new architecture

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for a high pressure
hydrogen storage

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tank for CO2 mitigation.

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Design has a deep,
deep history at MIT,

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as a way of translating
technology and creativity

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into the world.

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The project that I'm
working on is the connection

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between how students
learn in a technical class

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and how students apply
that knowledge in a project

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or in their career later on.

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I like to say I'm
kind of a musician

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at heart, maybe a designer
and an engineer at hand,

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and a neuroscientist in mind.

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I build instruments
that are a combination

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between a medical instrument
and a musical instrument.

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How might we use
human centered design

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to design last mile
transportation delivery

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networks that will really
enable us to help communities

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that need it the most?

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I want to help astronauts
be able to have

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the tools that they need to
solve a medical crisis when

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a life could be at risk.

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And I'm hoping to use
automation to be that tool.

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I'm a graduate
architect by profession.

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We have a lot of
interesting tools coming out

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in the generative AI space.

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And we could leverage
the power of these tools

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to make architecture
more accessible to a lot

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of different people.

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My current project is
related to this idea

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that we can actually control the
behavior of a fabricated object

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by modifying the distribution of
material inside of that object.

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And I'm so excited to
learn from everyone

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else, and different
corners of design

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that I haven't thought of.

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One thing that I'm
exploring is using

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textiles and physical
making techniques

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in order to both reflect
on and archive histories

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within different diasporas.

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I don't think a single person
can accomplish the whole design

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by himself or herself.

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My approach to
design, I sort like

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to think of it as a
multi-species approach, where

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it's not just the people
living on the coast.

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But it's the oyster.

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It's the larval fish.

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It's the birds.

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I generate conditions for
two things that would never

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get to speak in real life to
meet and grow generatively.

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I feel inspired seeing the
amount of resources and support

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that we get.

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It really makes me feel
hopeful for the world.

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We continually come
up with solutions

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to overcome any
hurdle that stands

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in the way of
better understanding

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our world or the universe.

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And the MAD Fellowship
is really a gift.

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It's a gift for students to
be able to do their work,

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without worrying about where
their support will come from.

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But it's also much
more than a gift.

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It's about building
community around design.

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It's about learning
best practices,

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sharing with each other, and
ultimately elevating design

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across MIT and around the world.

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