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Publication

MeshModule: A Playful Modular Mesh System for Creative Construction

Hye Jun Youn, Serena Xin Wei Sara, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2025. MeshModule: A Playful Modular Mesh System for Creative Construction. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 151, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3746058.3758420

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ML @ MIT Future Fest 2026

Discover MIT Media Lab at MIT Future Fest with panels, performances, lectures, and installations exploring emerging technologies.

Wednesday — Sunday
September 30, 2026 —
October 4, 2026
Project

MeshModule: A Playful Modular Mesh System for Creative Construction (UIST'25 Poster)

MeshModule is a modular construction platform composed of soft, 3D-printed mesh units designed for rapid prototyping of interactive, reconf…

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Reconfigurable Inflatables Through Controlled Surface Crumpling

Y. Yang*, H. J. Youn*, L. Kamp, et al. “ Reconfigurable Inflatables Through Controlled Surface Crumpling.” Advanced Science 13, no. 47 (2026): e00074. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202600074

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(UIST'25 Adjunct) PixBric: Precision Morphological Control of Pre-Stretched Fabrics Through Tessellated Primitive Geometries

Hye Jun Youn, Serena Xin Wei Sara, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2025. PixBric: Precision Morphological Control of Pre-Stretched Fabrics Through Tessellated Primitive Geometries. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 155, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3746058.3758421

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When Crumples Aren't Flaws -Harvard SEAS News

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Designing a More Human Future for Banking

TD Bank and MIT Media Lab reimagine banking through human-centered AI design—technology that augments human judgment, not replaces it.

Series

What's Taking Form?

A glimpse into experiments still unfolding. These are early explorations — unfinished, evolving, and sometimes weird — in all the best ways

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Series

MIT Media Lab + Castrol Collaborate on Space Research

This collaboration highlights Castrol’s ongoing commitment to driving innovation and pushing the boundaries of space exploration.

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Series

Research Group Overviews

Learn more about all of the research groups, centers, and initiatives at the MIT Media Lab.

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Series

ML Research Theme: Future Worlds

We’ll create transformative technologies, experiences, and systems that address the dual challenge of climate change and energy.

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Advancing Wellbeing

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Series

MLVoices

MLVoices is an ongoing occasional series featuring community members talking about their ideas, their work, their passions, and their lives.

July 23, 2020
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Series

ML Focus series

Sept. 17, 2020
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Series

Fall 2020 OoLE: Big Picture Sessions

Each of these discussions was dedicated to a timely, urgent topic.

Oct. 30, 2020
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Series

Safe Paths

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Series

All Hands on Deck

To fully explore and understand the ocean, we need "all hands on deck."

Series

The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

June 19, 2018
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Series

#TBT

Oct. 7, 1971
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Series

Labcast

LabCAST was the Media Lab's original video feature series. It ran from 2007–2016, highlighting dozens of research projects and initiatives.

May 3, 2007
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Thesis Defenses

April 12, 2001
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Sensibles Research Symposium

Oct. 20, 1999
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Series

MLTalks

The MLTalks series brings leading voices from a wide range of fields into the Media Lab for thought-provoking conversations, whic…

Oct. 6, 2011
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E14 Dedication and Symposium

March 3, 2010
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Project

Reconfigurable Inflatables Through Controlled Surface Crumpling

Reconfigurable Inflatables Through Controlled Surface Crumplinghttps://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202600074TBD …

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Hye Jun Youn

Graduate Student

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Hande Inanc

Senior Impact and Evaluation Lead

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Olivia Verdugo

Design Lead

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MIT Media Lab Brand Portal

MIT Media Lab brand assets, logos, colors, typography, use, templates, and brand architecture.

Event

EVDT Community Meeting - October 2026

 We invite you to join the October meeting of the Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology (EVDT) Community. The purpose of …

Wednesday
October 14, 2026
11:00am — 12:00pm ET
Event

The Post-American Internet: Possibilities for a new internet created by an American Hermit Kingdom

Join us for a talk with Cory Doctorow about The Post-American Internet: Possibilities for a new internet created by an American H…

Wednesday
September 30, 2026
1:00pm — 2:00pm ET
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Xiangtao Shi

Graduate Student

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Joan Pau Gutiérrez Pascual

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Benjamin Lowengard

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Ari Aadler

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Dava Newman

Former Director, MIT Media Lab; Apollo Professor of Astronautics

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Geva Patz

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Casey Smith

Former Research Assistant, Lifelong Kindergarten

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John A. Watlington

Former Research Specialist

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Mario Bourgoin

Former Research Assistant, Epistemology and Learning

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Marina Bers

Former Research Assistant, Epistemology and Learning

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Kelly Heaton

Former Research Assistant, Program in Media Arts & Sciences

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David Chiou

Former Research Assistant, Sociable Media

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Hannes Vilhjalmsson

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Erik Mueller

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Chenyue (Xdd) Dai

Graduate Student (ARCH)

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Marisa Uribe

Former Administrative Assistant SA+P

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Matt Mankins

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Suwan Kim

Graduate Student (ARCH)

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Tom Stocky

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Berfin Ataman

Outside RA

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Håkon Wium Lie

Former Research Assistant, Electronic Publishing

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David Young

Former Research Assistant, Visible Language Workshop

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Alan Wexelblat

Former Research Assistant, Intelligent Agents

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Clea Waite

Former Research Assistant, 3D Computer Graphics and Animation

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Fernanda B. Viegas

Former Research Assistant, Sociable Media

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Nuno Vasconcelos

Former Research Assistant, Movies of the Future