Spring 2025 HPI–MIT Workshop
Mar 24–Mar 25, 2025
About
The Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI)–MIT Research Program “Designing for Sustainability,” funded by the Hasso Plattner Foundation, is a multi-year partnership to drive joint scientific research in multidisciplinary teams at both institutes. It focuses on sustainable design, innovation, and digital technologies, through the allocation of approximately ten grants, ranging from $50,000 to $200,000 per year.
As part of the program, this two-day workshop is designed to give researchers an opportunity to present their work, and create further synergies.
This is not a public program.
Schedule
MONDAY, MARCH 24
City Arena, Building 9, room 255 (pin)
- 8:30–9am: Breakfast
- 9–9:15am: Welcome
- John Ochsendorf, Founding Director, MIT MAD
- 9:15–10:30am: Project Presentations
- 9:15am: A-11 Experiencing the Future Self to Support Sustainable Dietary Choices, Falk Uebernickel and Pattie Maes
- 9:30am: A-14 Rethinking the Product Design Process of 3D Printed Objects with Recycled Materials, Patrick Baudisch and Stefanie Mueller
- 9:45am: A-6 Predicting Functional Effects of Genetic Variants, Bernhard Renard and Connor Coley
- 10am: A-5 Sidewalk Ballet, Gerard de Melo and Andres Sevtsuk
- TBD 10:15am: new HPI faculty research areas
- 10:30–11am: Break
- 11–11:45am Lightning Talk
- David Hsu, Strategic Planner, US Department of Energy and Associate Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
- 12–12:45pm Lunch
- 1pm: Pitch Session
- 1pm: Elizabeth Yuu, HPI with Justin Brazier & Larisa Ovalles Paulino, MIT Urban Risk Lab
- TBD 1:15pm: new HPI faculty research areas
Massachusetts Ave, Front steps of Building 7
- 1:30pm: Group picture
Team Project Meetings
- 2–4pm: Team project meetings
- 2–2:45pm HPI-MIT Administrative meeting, 9-255
MAD, Building N52, 3rd floor (pin)
- 4:15–5:45pm: Make Stations at MAD
- Make a bluetooth speaker, laser cut a magnet, or design a bandana.
- 6–8pm: Dinner
TUESDAY, MARCH 25
- 8:30am Meet John O. in Building 7 under the dome to walk to Hayden Library
Hayden Library, Nexus (Building 14S, room 130) (pin)
- 8:30am: Breakfast
- 9:15–10:15am: Project Presentations
- 9:15am: A-13 Advancing Digital Sustainability in Health Care, Ariel Stern and Marzyeh Ghassemi
- 9:30am: A-9 Automatic Example Generation for Babylonian Programming to Facilitate Human-centric Domain Exploration, Robert Hirschfeld and Martin Rinard
- 9:45am: A-12 AI-Enabled Design of Electroactive Surfaces for Sustainable Cell Culture, Christoph Lippert and Kripa Varanasi
- 10:00am: A-7 Energy-Efficient AI Using Stochastic Magnetic Tunnel Junctions, Ralf Herbrich and Deblina Sarkar
- 10:15–10:45am: Break
- 10:45–11:30am: Pitch Session
- 10:45am: Canan Dağdeviren, Conformable Decoders, Media Lab
- 11am: Caitlin Mueller and Tasha Hirt, Building Technology
- 11:30am: Hiroshi Ishii, Lucy Li, Hye Jun Youn, and Cyrus Clarke, Tangible Media, Media Lab
- 12pm: Lunchtime presentation
- Scott Stern, David Sarnoff Professor of Management Technology and Professor of Technical Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management
Team Project Meetings
- 1–2:45pm: Team meetings
Tours
- 3–4:30pm: MIT Art, Architecture + Design Tour with John O., meet in Building 7 under the dome
- 3–4pm: MIT.nano, meet Marion at the MIT.nano entrance along the Outfinite (pin or map)
- 4:30–6:30pm: Reception with food, refreshments, and games. Government issued ID or passport required for entry.
You may access a list of other events taking place at MIT on the days of the workshop here.
Areas of Interest
- Climate action
- Digital technology
- Human-computer interactions
- Materials
- Urbanism
- Energy systems
- Polymer degradation
- Entrepreneurship
- Artificial intelligence
Participants
HPI
- Muhammad Abdullah
- Vincent Beermann
- Marco Cipriano
- Noel Danz
- Danielly de Paula
- Christian Doerr
- Jan Enkmann
- Henrike Heyne
- Alexandra Kudaeva
- Marta Lemanczyk
- Toni Mattis
- Marija Petrovic
- Uli Prantz
- Bernhard Renard
- Pia Francesca Rissom
- Falk Uebernickel
- Paulo Yanez
- Elizabeth Yuu
MIT
- Aparna Balagopalan
- Justin Brazier
- Marion Cunningham
- Canan Dağdeviren
- Cathy Fang
- Marzyeh Ghassemi
- Svafa Grönfeldt
- Yuexing Hao
- Natasha Hirt
- David Hsu
- Sumaiya Iqbal
- Hiroshi Ishii
- Shivam Kajale
- Justin Leahy
- Wren Lee
- Lucy Li
- Liu Liu
- Abby MacKenzie
- Pattie Maes
- Caitlin Mueller
- Stefanie Mueller
- John Ochsendorf
- Larisa Ovalles Paulino
- Maxine Perroni-Scharf
- Martin Rinard
- Jordan Safer
- Andres Sevtsuk
- Scott Stern
- Kripa Varanasi
- Maria Yang
- Rem Yang
- Hye Jun Youn
Practical Information
- Connect to wifi: Select MIT GUEST as the wireless network option. The network uses a captive portal registration system. Visitors connecting to MIT GUEST will be required to provide an email address or mobile phone number to access the network. Guest users that do not have access to SMS/text messaging or e-mail should coordinate with Katherine or an MIT collaborator to use the "Request Access from Sponsor" option and enter their sponsor's MIT e-mail address.
- Online map of MIT campus
- Overview of the Designing for Sustainability program and the June Call for Applications
Pictures will be taken. If you do not wish to appear in photographs, please let us know.
For questions, feel free to contact:
Katherine Higgins, [email protected]
Information
24-25 March, 2025
MIT, multiple locations
Cambridge, MA