Urban Development Incubation: MIT LCAU Fellow

Collaborative Studio – MIT graduates from SA+P would collaborate with students from a center of excellence to take up specific funded studies that will take up a complex urban design/planning studio with equitable participation.

Approximately 10-12 students from each side will collaborate with each other, long with professors and project directors, which also include field studies, stakeholder participation and exhibitions and seminars to present deliverables to the client.

Duration: 16-20 weeks (4-5 months)

Research Collaborations : MIT Spurs Fellow

Publications/Papers – A smaller group of experts and practitioners (PhD students, practicing professionals, graduate students, young practices) will take up specific research problems to come up with design solutions, ideas, concept notes, etc., for clients such as cities and institutions.

Workshops will be conducted through specific funding

Duration: 6-8 weeks (1.5-2 months)

MIT Design Studio and: MIT Studio Practica

Conferences and Seminars – The center would organize conferences and seminars at MIT or collaborating centers of excellence and/or places of national visibility to discuss and deliberate a specific urban problem in India.

This will not only create discourse and debate, but also brand the center at national stages.