MIT celebrates the volunteers who support the alumni community and help create a better world.

Speakers from across academia, industry, government and NGOs share insights on applying modern machine learning and data science methods to social problems.

Metropolis hosted this in-depth look at the open floor plan office—its history, its problems, and strategies that can make it more comfortable and functional

Join scholars, practitioners, and educators for a discussion focused on design practices that enable learning.

PLASTARC speaks to thought leaders gathered to explore the future of work, focusing on people and technology.

Virgin Unite and the BTeam host this candid conversation about building a future of work that upholds dignity, security, and equal opportunity for individuals and communities around the world.

Now in its 51st edition, this exhibition inspires with the latest products and services for designers, architects, and users.

The MITdesignX 2019 cohort presents their innovations in design, real estate, economic development, health, construction, spatial management and more

PLASTARC is co-organizing this interdisciplinary conference, now celebrating 50 years of dedication to building sustainable urban environments.

PLASTARC moderates a panel of NYC experts to reflect on 10 years of change in New York City at this forum on the future of work and the workplace.

Thought leaders in real estate discuss strategies to shape the fabric of tomorrow’s cities.

PLASTARC Founder Melissa Marsh and Mitchell Weitz of Bristol-Myers Squibb share their experiences using people analytics and data to design human-focused spaces.

Featuring faculty-presented tours and research, this two day symposium caps a year-long celebration of 150 years of architecture at MIT.

This group is dedicated to promoting female thought leadership, tackling diversity issues, and connecting the brilliant women working in real estate technology.

Architects and industry leaders discuss new data technology and where it could lead us in the future.

Entrepreneurs and marketers discuss how innovation and technology affect the ways organizations build and maintain brands.

We travel to India to speak about the future of work to leaders in facilities management, real estate, and design.

This roundtable focuses on building community through in-person connections. Creating a successful events program that generates engagement.

This panel of HR professionals discuss ways to cultivate employee wellbeing, improving workplace culture, and avoiding burnout.

Cheers to the New Year! Wishing you a data rich workplace in 2019...

This panel will focus on the intersection between activism and architecture, emphasizing the role of architects in the development of places worth living.

Architects, building technologists, and historians challenge the "cradle to cradle" approach to sustainability in response to the new book The Architecture of Closed Worlds.

Pioneers in neurotechnology share cutting edge developments in research. Presented by MIT’s McGovern Institute in Cambridge, MA, Nov. 27.

Speakers from a broad mix of industries, geographies and business stages share strategies for effective decision-making and management with CFO’s of businesses large and small.

Thought leaders share best practices and expertise with senior professionals from real estate, facilities, HR, technology, executive management, architecture, and design.

PLASTARC speaks to the New Jersey chapter of the American Institute of Architects as part of their 2018 conference.

Exploring the rapidly evolving coworking industry with this panel of designers, developers, and operators.

Melissa Marsh will guide a conversation on spaces, people, and business in the financial sector.

WORKTECH18 Barcelona is the forum for all those involved in the future of work and the workplace as well as real estate, technology and innovation.

Communities change the world. Over 3 days, CMX Summit seeks to expand discussions, techniques, and tactics applied to community building for businesses and support communities and their builders (you!) at scale. You’ll gain insights from the best in the industry and make lifelong friends.

PLASTARC takes the stage with other experts in office design, space planning, and facilities, who will talk about creating physical spaces that that reflect the values of your company.

Participants from across academia, industry, government and NGOs share insights on applying modern machine learning and data science methods to social problems.

Join David Chapin and Dr. Zeynep Turan as they screen and discuss their documentary Living Salk Institute.

PLASTARC presents ways to harness technology to improve workplace experience and guide change management.

PLASTARC joins industry leaders for collaborative sessions on the next generation of CRE amenities, flexible space, talent, and workplace strategy.

Professor Alan Hedge of Cornell's Human Factors and Ergonomics lab discusses the role of ergonomics in today's flexible workplaces.

WORKTECH18 Paris is the forum for all those involved in the future of work and the workplace as well as real estate, technology and innovation.

Culture Camp is a one-day workshop led by cultural anthropologist Grant McCracken.

Preeminent lighting designers will discuss the surprising ways that lighting carries symbolic meaning about the environment.

Join the discussion amongst the largest real estate owners and their partners to learn about how to transform the urban landscape through building development and re-positioning, including the addition of amenities and other capital projects.

Learn from founders who disrupt the status quo and create breakthrough companies. Panelists include leaders from Convene, Absolut Art and The New Stand.

The MIT Club of New York and MITArchA hosts this tour of Joya Studio’s flagship retail space, designed by Taylor and Miller.

PLASTARC joins the architecture community to honor excellence in design. Honorees include Claire Weisz, Inga Saffron, and Ai Weiwei. Proceeds from the event benefit AIA New York.

This program addressed how big data and little data - traditional methods and anecdotes - are both essential for creating new possibilities and solutions in architecture.

The Wharton People Analytics Conference brings together industry leaders and academic experts at the forefront of people analytics. Learn how the latest research can improve people-related decision-making for your organization.

How do you plan for change when you don't know what the change will be? Forecasting is always fraught with peril, but the best leaders are agile and use uncertainty as an agent for change. Today's trailblazers examine emerging megatrends to better understand how they are reshaping the future.

More than 138 million workers in the U.S. have LinkedIn profiles, giving the company a unique insight into workforce trends around the country. What information has their data crunching found out about the Bay Area, and how does our metro region compare to others? Who is leaving the region and why?

With 30+ speakers, exclusive site-tours, and a workshop day, the Future Offices series has proven to be an industry staple. We are excited to hear from Walmart, Twitter, Verizon, Fannie Mae, Netflix, Time Warner, and TD (to name just a few!) about how the office landscape is being redeveloped.

The first of three events on sustainable design, this evening of presentations and in-depth focus groups used features of the new Delos office to illustrate principles of the WELL Building Standard.

A companion to last December's event on proving the efficacy of social science research in architecture through a variety of case studies, this program will push the point that exceptional design in architecture is truly advanced by social science. Panelists will bring examples that illustrate success in financial terms when buildings excel at accommodating both people and events.

As businesses embed mobile and digital technology, leading CFOs help their companies connect in new and exciting ways. Attendees explore how the C-suite can think differently to build leading business strategies that advance not only external success, but also internal engagement.

The changing landscape of academic, and private-sector and government workplace provides an opportunity to learn from the success of coworking. This session provides research and lessons from coworking's activation of design and community to evolve spatial practices from facility operations to people enablement in diverse organizational and institutional settings.

In an era of consumer-centric business models and dramatic technology advancements, there is now greater demand and opportunity for real estate to impact business and occupant performance. PLASTARC explores how organizations like Mozilla and Verizon are leveraging their physical environments as a platform for internal innovation and external brand leadership by incorporating forward-thinking, user-centric approaches to workplace design and real estate strategy.

If you don't know your past, you can't make sense of your future... or vice versa. Our next program in a series on approaches to architecture in academia, and what has come before now, will be an intro to key topics within the conversation. If you're new to the concept, come catch up with this essential primer!

The workplace is rapidly evolving and the workplace is a powerful tool in influencing employee engagement, organizational innovation and the bottom line. The Work Experience Summit brings HR to the head of the real estate conversation.

Work Design Magazine, with partners WeWork and Swingspace explore how the landscape of workplace is changing in this inaugural global series.

Guest speakers from around the world share their perspective on workplace trends at the intersection of real estate and technology.

Inter-disciplinary data enthusiasts join the annual D4GX to explore how data science can be applied to solve public interest challenges, including evaluating and improving the performance of our collective built world. PLASTARC's paper presented at Bloomberg D4GX 2016 on advocating for health and wellbeing in the workplace through occupant-centric measures builds on the importance of social data advocacy in the building supply chain.

Work Design Magazine, with partners WeWork and Swingspace explore how the landscape of workplace is changing in this inaugural global series.

Join Melissa Marsh and other leading women in real estate to support the St. Francis Food Pantries & Shelters and contribute to helping New York's in-need.

This event will include a preview of the innovative programming Alley powered by (our client) Verizon will be implementing moving forward, one of Verizon’s signature Pitch Nights for entrepreneurs, and the opportunity to see the space before it opens and meet Verizon business leaders and investors in the Boston area.

PLASTARC joins client West Elm Workspace to showcase new products and concepts informed by people-driven research at Neocon, the leading commercial design event.

Marcel Botha, SMArchS '06 speaks to local alumni about his company, 10xBeta, which works in the technology and product development space.

PLASTARC explores tech & cultural forces underpinning design research and how to accommodate shifting occupant demands.

The teams from the inaugural DesignX cohort present their pitches and product demonstrations. PLASTARC's Melissa Marsh is a mentor.

The global series 'Worktech' brings together NYC's forefront thinkers in workplace experience. Presenters and attendees discuss new strategies for advancing how and where organizations work.

As the Social Science and Architecture Committee enters its second year, the theme of understanding how, where and why Social Science research is taking place has been an overarching theme. It is also critical to understand how, where and why it is not taking place, and in this panel discussion we will explore those areas, along with what the barriers are to using research.

PLASTARC explores how facility managers can leverage the increasingly ubiquitous digital layer of the built environment to build a strong case for their work as a force for both occupant and organizational satisfaction. With greater demand on the workspace as tool for enabling employee experience across digital and physical platforms, we discuss how building systems and location-based social tools enable facility managers to be the digital strategy experts of the built environment.

Technology is quickly changing the landscape of how the corporate real estate industry operates. DisruptCRE NYC connects commercial real estate professionals with emerging technologies and trends.

Melissa Marsh, in partnership with IFMA's Workplace Evolutionaries, explores how community management, drawing from co-working, hospitality, and learning environments, has exciting applications for enabling occupant experience in corporate real estate.

Leesman presents their latest findings on Activity Based Working, addressing components vital to its successful implementation and possible reasons for low adoption rates.

This event showcases the latest cutting edge research and technology in development at MIT, along with TED-style talks and fireside chats with industry leaders.

DisruptHR NYC brings together leaders at the intersection of employee experience interested in pushing the boundaries of the HR discipline. PLASTARC spoke at the December 2016 DisruptHR event on the power of the workplace to advance HR initiatives. This event further addresses topics of how HR can accelerate business and enable organizational success.

Join Community Managers of physical and digital spaces to explore new approaches to building community (and Holiday cheer!), hosted by our friends at CMX NYC.

PLASTARC supports MIT's DesignX program in the selection of project finalists whose work will foster entrepreneurship in the built environment industry.

Discussing examples of the successful integration of social science into the built environment and the business of architecture, including WeWork, Intersection, and FXFowle.

With the growing employee demand for higher levels of cognitive stimulation, collaboration and cultural alignment with their organizations comes the increased need for evidence-based approaches to workplace design. PLASTARC, with  Stok) and Biomimicry 3.8, joins brand and business leaders to discuss how personalized, multi-stakeholder engagements can help organizations design for and meet these expectations.

The future of workplace experience relies on a tech infrastructure advancing the social, economic, and environmental performance of real estate. Melissa Marsh joins fellow thought leaders to discuss a future in which every building invests as much in digital strategy as furniture, fixtures, and facade.

Join us on Wednesday October 19th @ 2pm EST, to participate in a webinar led by Melissa Marsh. Occupants, as consumers, are demanding that their work environments be accommodating and delightful spaces to occupy. This consumerization of the workplace has been accelerated by the coworking and flexible office industry. Evolving occupant demands call for a need to think about the design of workplace environments with a focus on the multisensory experience so that we are truly creating spaces for people and not machines.

Smart buildings are social buildings. PLASTARC joins a panel to discuss how to leverage social data to understand and enhance the tenant experience.

The PLASTARC team shares insights about the community manager role in coworking environments, and how it is changing expectations of facilities managers followed by a discussion of how cloud based, open source, and crowd sourced models are influencing the business of facilities management.

The Global Workspace Association celebrated its' 30th birthday this year at the annual conference focused on emerging global trends in shared workspaces

Exploring the range of human experiences and interactions with architecture. A discussion of the social, cognitive, and emotional benefits of transparency in the workplace.

A roundtable discussion of the methods and tools to measure well-being with respect to architectural environments.

An exploration of how data, research, and design thinking can inform design solutions aimed at encouraging healthy lifestyle choices. Professionals including Suzanne Neinaber and James Brewer discuss Fitwel and other platforms that bring fitness and wellbeing to the public.

PLASTARC discusses how coworking sheds light on the role of human factors in the workplace, at this conference focused on the ties between the social, built and natural environments.

A discussion of real estate development projects that are demonstrating programs, designs, and processes that are well aligned with the new demands of the physical environment.

A collaboration between PLASTARC and west elm’s design team. We developed messaging and talking points grounded in academic research on workplace and environmental psychology.

An evening of idea exchange: - Managing Workplace Utilization – new tools, processes and metrics - Managing Workplace Utilization – new tools, processes and metrics - How to prepare for and execute Change Management  - Occupant UX: Digital, Design, and Community - Enabling the successful occupant user experience (UX) through the integration of digital, design and community in the workplace

Co-working designers have intentionally leveraged the power of visual clues to deliver a desirable workplace experience, one that seeks to rebuild where institutional environments have failed.

Real-time occupancy data and user feedback is a game changer for organizations looking to identify workspace utilization patterns, improve efficiency and flexibility, and lower occupancy cost.

A panel addresses the evolution of the two disciplines over time - prehistory, early architectural history, modern architecture, and contemporary theory - in order to inform and inspire the future.

Demos​ and lightning talks by​ Columbia researchers ​presenting their latest work in data science. Designed to foster collaboration between innovators in academia and industry…

Leaders in data science and visualization for architecture discussed the possibilities of measuring and using data to improve the built environment.