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MIT DesignX

MIT DesignX is where creative changemakers transform bold ideas into impactful solutions for positive change through design-driven innovation and venture design.

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DesignX is based at the MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD), located in the Metropolitan Warehouse, the landmark home of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Vassar Street. The 217,000 sq ft building brings together creative innovators from across MIT in state-of-the-art maker-spaces, studios, and labs, making it one of the most ambitious interdisciplinary design hubs in the world. ​

DesignX Methods

“The radical shift from the information age to the imagination age makes imagination and creativity paramount and design an essential partner to science and technology.”

MIT Technology Review
The Creativity Issue (2025)

Dynamic Programs

DesignX provides a dynamic ecosystem of accelerators, courses, and innovation engagements aimed at transforming design ideas into scalable ventures that address supercomplex challenges.

Accelerator Programs

Our accelerators embrace design methodology, create room for experiential learning, and demystify the innovation process. At its core is the belief that anyone can be an entrepreneur, and that the risk of failure must never overshadow the chance of success.

Short Courses

Grounded in experiential learning, exploration, and the joy of making, we empower changemakers aspiring to shape the future with their forward-thinking solutions, driving positive impact across industries, society, and our planet.

Challenges / Hackathons

Through fast-paced, collaborative engagements, interdisciplinary teams prototype tangible solutions addressing complex challenges in industry, society and the planet. Hackathons can range in length and scope.

Entrepreneur in Residence

DesignX invites experienced founders, investors, creatives, and industry experts to engage with our community as Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, providing mentorship, venture validation, and strategic guidance.

Online Courses

Enhance your decision-making, project management, and leadership capabilities by acquiring the tools and knowledge you need to identify, understand, frame, scale, and prioritize solutions to your most pressing challenges.

Industry Programs

MIT DesignX works with companies and organizations to strengthen corporate innovation and strategic foresight through tailored masterclasses and workshops, helping leadership teams apply design-driven thinking to their most critical strategic challenges.

“True innovation happens when ideas collide, inspiring us to see beyond our own limits. Design
isn’t only a solution-maker, but a question-raiser.”​

Kengo Kuma
Designing the X (2025)

Design For Impact

Lives Impacted

100m

Alumni Accelerator Teams

250+

Student Grants Awarded by DesignX

>$120m

Our mission is to work with impact-driven MIT students, labs, industry collaborators, and innovators from around the world to transform bold ideas into action by designing and activating new solutions for a better future.​

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Supporters

Founding Level Supporter

Gensler

Google

Sustaining Level Supporter

Goodwin

Microsoft for Startups

Foundation for Innovation in Real Estate

Team Supporter

Jean-Jacques​ Degroof​

Liam and Felicia Thornton

Chengzhao Richard ​ Xhang 
and Zu Shi​ Kevin Want

Become a Supporter

DesignX supporters include businesses and individuals, alumni, and foundations. Our programs and student founders rely on forward-thinkers like you who are interested in supporting creative optimism and accelerating the unique skills and imagination found 
in entrepreneurs at MIT. ​

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Engage with DesignX

Engage with DesignX as a mentor or Entrepreneur ​in Residence and work with students, guide ventures and help bring new ideas to life. Collaborate with our global network advancing new solutions, systems, and ventures.​

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