All MIT students are welcome! Framing challenges and problems is a crucial first step for addressing them effectively. In this two-day hybrid workshop, MIT and Tsinghua University students will apply a problem-framing methodology named DIMES to a climate-related challenge, concerning the responses of large cities to extreme heat waves.

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DIMES stands for Describe, Inquire, Model, Extract, State. The methodology was developed and applied previously by Dr. Rea Lavi of the NEET program in MIT School of Engineering, who will facilitate the workshop together with Dr. Cong Cong from MIT Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning and with Associate Prof. Yuan Lai of Tsinghua University Dept. of Urban Planning.

On day 2 of the workshop, the facilitators and participants will be joined by Assitant Prof. Nicola Colaninno in GIScience and Urban Planning in Politecnico di Milano. Nicola is also an H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the City Form Lab at MIT.

Jan 18: In-person on MIT campus, 3-001 (NEET Student Collaboration Space).

Jan 19: Virtually (zoom) with Tsinghua University students.