Lab Overview

At the Media Lab, the future is lived, not imagined. In a world where radical technology advances are taken for granted, we design technology for people to create a better future.

The Lab comprises rigorous research and graduate degree programs, where traditional disciplines get checked at the door. Future-obsessed product designers, nanotechnologists, data-visualization experts, industry researchers, and pioneers of computer interfaces work side by side to tirelessly invent–and reinvent–how humans experience, and can be aided by, technology.

Download MIT Media Lab Overview document (pdf, 4 pages)

The Wiesner Building, home of the MIT Media Lab.
Photo by Steve Rosenthal.