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LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionThe technology choices Africa makes in the next decade will help to determine whether it becomes …
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Dr. Minoo Rathnasabapathy spoke at the 1st IAA African Symposium on Small Satellites and the 5th African Space Generation Workshop.
The Lifelong Kindergarten group develops technologies and activities that engage people in creative learning. We’re exploring a few directi…
LocationMIT Media Lab, Building E14, 6th Floor Lecture Hall DescriptionThe Edinburgh International Festival has been connecting artists and…
As part of NewSpace Africa Conference , Danielle Wood presents on Harnessing Earth Observation for a Resilient and Sustainable Africa.
The US Department of Commerce invited Wood to speak at New Space Africa about Space Enabled's NASA-funded Angola drought project.
NewSpace Africa includes industry leaders, commercial space companies, investors, and key stakeholders in the African space industry.
Dannielle Wood spoke at GEO Week in South Africa, held this year November 6-10 in Cape Town, South Africa.
LocationBocoup, Boston, MA Description
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Educators from across Africa are gathering in Nairobi, Kenya for the first Scratch Africa Conference.
Isaacs, S., Kalashnikova, O., Garay, M. J., van Donkelaar, A., Hammer, M. S., Lee, H., & Wood, D. (2023). Dust soiling effects on decentralized solar in West Africa. Applied Energy, 340, 120993.
Danielle Wood will be a speaker at the first US-Africa Space Partnership Roundtable, hosted by the African Space Leadership Institute.
Dr Minoo Rathnasabapathy contributes to Via Satellite's November feature on Africa's space industry.
CIS research affiliate describes his goals in creating a webinar series exploring sustainable development in Africa.
Wood and Rathnasabapathy were invited to the White House's US-Africa Leaders Summit held in Washington, DC from December 13-15.
BBQ magazine was fortunate to chat two remarkable women in the South African space industry—Carla Sharpe and Dr Minoo Rathnasabapathy
Professor Wood is a recognized expert on the African Space Agency ( AfSA), which officially launched this year after a decade of incubation.
Will the city swallow the forest, or will the forest reclaim the city? Or can we find a third way?The 21st century is a critical momen…
Danielle Wood on Future of Space Exploration on Bloomberg’s The Close.
MIT's undergraduate African and African Diaspora Studies major, advised by Danielle Wood, was recently highlighted in the MIT News.
The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing h…
Dr. Minoo Rathnasabapathy gave a keynote presentation on utilizing space technologies for the sustainable development goals, and joined the
Walker, R., Sherif, E., & Breazeal, C. (2022). Liberatory computing education for African American students. 2022 Conference on Research in Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), 85–89.
Ufuoma Ovienmhada discusses her work using satellite data to help manage invasive water hyacinth in Benin.
Walker, R., Sherif, E., & Breazeal, C. (2022). Liberatory computing education for African American students. 2022 Conference on Research in Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), 85–89.
Gabriela Bila Advincula and Jonny Cohen. 2026. Ancestral Craft and Emerging Technologies: Designing Futures from Place. In Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Spatial Storytelling (SIGGRAPH Spatial Storytelling '26), July 19--23, 2026, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA 3 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3799822.3812473
Zhang and Ovienmhada were featured in "Future Leaders in Aerospace," hosted by the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
The Future Sketches group explores software as a medium for art and design, as well as how toolkits and pedagogical approach…
This October, MIT celebrated the inaugural MIT Legal Forum on AI & Blockchain which aimed to provide a space in which legal professiona…
Danielle Wood will speak at the session "Outer Space: Projecting Histories and Futures onto the Stars."
Deb Roy talks to McKinsey about the many ways audience, voice, and medium combine to create compelling stories.
The Opera of the Future Group develops new technologies for music, from Hyperinstruments that enhance performance expressivity for vir…
LocationMoonshine, 303 Red River DescriptionMonday is the last day for the MIT Media Lab Future Futures Lounge! Stop by to check out new wo…
LocationMoonshine Restaurant, 303 Red River Description#MLSXSWDates: Friday March 7 thru Monday March 10 (11am - 5:30pm daily)Science ficti…
TD Hackathon: Future of the Branch. May 6, 2025 at MIT Media Lab. Collaborate on banking innovation challenges with industry leaders.
Media Lab researchers invited to showcase their work at the Wall Street Journal's "Future of Everything" festival 2024.
Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is an immersive research project that explores how radically different mobility paradigms—near-zero movement and ne…
Several members of Future Sketches will be attending the Scalable HCI symposium and Research at Scale residency January 2026…
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“Welcome to the System! Together we will change the world!”These are the words I found scrawled at the bottom of a web page, right next to …
Nothing is more important in today's troubled world than the process of eliminating prejudice and misunderstanding, and replacing them with…
The Challenge: To secure a sustainable future for all living thingsHow can we reduce harm to our planet and the future prospects of life on…
LocationMIT Media Lab, E14, Sixth Floor Description
LocationMoonshine Lounge DescriptionMake your own robot head with Sputniko! in preparation for the evening's Cosmodrome party!We'll provide…
We’ll create transformative technologies, experiences, and systems that address the dual challenge of climate change and energy.
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How can we work together to build a better mobility future?The MIT Media Lab is working with Toyota Research Institute and other industry c…
LocationStuttgart, Germany Description
Guru Madhavan talks to Media Lab Director Dava Newman and Major General Charles Bold.
Urban Futures of the Amazon discusses urbanization issues in the Brazilian rainforest and its urbanized regions.The event brought together …
Co-creating future imaginaries in the heart of the Amazon, blending fieldwork, local knowledge, and new media for creative expression.
Char Stiles and Jessica Stringham from the Media Lab's Future Sketches group presented work and performed at the 2025 International Confere…