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Programming functional fabrics
Encouraged by her family, Lavender Tessmer explored various creative pursuits from a young age, particularly textiles,…
Think globally, rebuild locally
Building construction accounts for a huge chunk of greenhouse gas emissions: About 36 percent of carbon…
Q&A: A blueprint for sustainable innovation
Atacama Biomaterials is a startup combining architecture, machine learning, and chemical engineering to create eco-friendly materials…
Building on an enduring bond
Robert Robinson Taylor’s impressive legacy straddles two institutions. There’s MIT, where he studied architecture and became…
Making life friendlier with personal robots
“As a child, I wished for a robot that would explain others’ emotions to me” says…