Event

Design Driven Innovation

LocationMIT Media Lab DescriptionNEW FRONTIERS FOR MAKING & FABRICATIONDIGITAL DISRUPTIONSSTART-UP DRIVEN INNOVATIONPEOPLE CENTERED DESIGN

Tuesday — Wednesday
October 28, 2014 —
October 29, 2014
Event

Design Innovation Workshop | Delhi, India

LocationApeejay Stya University in Delhi, India DescriptionThe MIT Media Lab and Apeejay Stya University will co-host the second Design & I…

Monday — Friday
March 26, 2012 —
March 30, 2012
Event

Barry Kudrowitz on Fueling Design Innovation

LocationE14-633 DescriptionHumor and creativity both involve making non-obvious connections between seemingly unrelated things. Innovation,…

Wednesday
March 10, 2010
Event

Media Lab India Initiatives Design & Innovation Workshop

LocationPune, India DescriptionThe MIT Media Lab and the College of Engineering, Pune are hosting the first Design & Innovation workshop in…

Monday — Friday
January 24, 2011 —
January 28, 2011
Publication

Affective Typography: The Effect of AI-Driven Font Design on Empathetic Story Reading

Shen, J., Jin, K., Zhang, A., Breazeal, C., and Park, H. 2023. Affective Typography: The Effect of AI-Driven Font Design on Empathetic Story Reading. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 11 pages.

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Fast Company's 2023 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees

Congratulations to the Media Lab community members and projects honored in Fast Company's 2023 Innovation by Design Awards!

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The Guardians Wins Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards!

We're very excited to receive these honors, and we highly recommend reading the article they wrote about the project!

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Design, Technology + Social Innovation Workshop 2020

Publication

A Platform for Consumer Driven Participative Design of Open (Source) Buildings

McLeish, T. "A Platform for Consumer Driven Participative Design of Open (Source) Buildings"

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Fast Company's 2022 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees

The honorees will be included in the October 2022 print issue of Fast Company Magazine.

Publication

A Need-Driven Design Approach: Addressing Latent Needs in Collaboration

Sheng-Ying Pao, Selene Mota, K. Chung, A. Reben

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Fast Company's 2021 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees

The competition, now in its tenth year, has featured a cross section of blue-chip companies, scruffy startups, and hungry young talents.

Publication

CityScope: A Data-Driven Interactive Simulation Tool for Urban Design. Use Case Volpe

Alonso, L., Zhang, Y. R., Grignard, A., Noyman, A., Sakai, Y., Elkatsha, M., ... & Larson, K. (2019). Data-driven, evidence-based simulation of urban dynamics. use case volpe. Unifying Themes in Complex Systems, IX, 4.

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Fast Company's 2020 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees

The competition, now in its ninth year, has featured a cross section of blue-chip companies, scruffy startups, and hungry young talents.

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RETOS wins 2019 Solve Community-Driven Innovators Challenge

RETOS—an AI-powered web platform to facilitate, enhance, visualize, and predict connections between thousands of challenges posted by rural…

Publication

Contestational Design: Innovation for Political Activism

Hirsch, E. "Contestational Design: Innovation for Political Activism"

Publication

The Observatory: Designing Data-Driven Decision Making Tools

Simoes, A. "The Observatory: Designing Data�__ѐDriven Decision Making Tools"

Project

Automated and data-driven computational design of subject-specific prosthetic sockets

Complications of prosthetic leg use in persons with lower extremity amputation often occur at the prosthetic socket, and includes delayed w…

Article

bioLogic wins Fast Company Innovation by Design award

Publication

CityScope: A Data-Driven Interactive Simulation Tool for Urban Design. Use Case Volpe

Alonso, L., Zhang, Y. R., Grignard, A., Noyman, A., Sakai, Y., ElKatsha, M., ... & Larson, K. (2018, July). Cityscope: a data-driven interactive simulation tool for urban design. Use case volpe. In International Conference on Complex Systems (pp. 253-261). Springer, Cham.

Publication

Cooperative Innovation in the Commons: Rethinking Distributed Collaboration and Intellectual Property for Sustainable Design Innovation

Sawhney, N. "Cooperative Innovation in the Commons: Rethinking Distributed Collaboration and Intellectual Property for Sustainable Design Innovation"

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Media Lab @ Design, Technology + Social Innovation Workshop 2020

The following Media Lab students joined the MIT India Initiative in Mumbai for this workshop.

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Media Lab projects recognized in the 2018 Innovation by Design Awards

Winner and finalists in Fast Company's 2018 awards

Article

inFORM Wins FastCo 2014 Innovation By Design Awards

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Congratulations to the Media Lab's 2017 Innovation by Design Award Honorees

Labbers honored in Fast Company's Innovation By Design Awards 2017.

Article

MIT Morningside Academy for Design created as a new hub for cross-disciplinary education, research, and innovation

Supported by a $100 million founding gift, the academy will deepen the integration of design across the Institute and beyond.

Publication

Fostering Innovation: Designing Technological Solutions to Proactively Encourage Informal Communication in the Workplace

Salzberg, S. "Fostering Innovation: Designing Technological Solutions to Proactively Encourage Informal Communication in the Workplace"

Publication

Social Change through Community Innovation: Feminist + Participatory Design Approaches to Organize Inclusive, Equitable, & Joyful Hackathons

Hope, Alexis. (2021). Social Change through Community Innovation: Feminist and Participatory Design Approaches to Organizing Inclusive, Equitable, and Joyful Hackathons (Doctoral dissertation, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA).

Event

David Rose: Innovation in Innovation

LocationMIT Stata Center, Kirsch Auditorium Description

Wednesday
October 10, 2012
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Kohler + MIT Media Lab: Innovation—for Better

Kohler and the MIT Media Lab share the vision of a better future by, with, and for all.We share the belief that remarkable outcomes can be …

Publication

Sensor-driven automatic feedback on mobile devices for improving behavioral measurement and intervention: Design experiences from two pilot

Stephen Intille, F. Albinali, Selene Mota, A.D. Nguyen, Y. Han, W.L. Haskell

Event

Materials Innovation for Better Living

Lecture by Dr. Jiaxing Huang , Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Northwestern University

Monday
October 1, 2018
1:00pm — 2:00pm ET
Article

From smog-eating towers to ocean-cleaning barriers, how design is inspiring innovation

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Trip Report: Lifelong Learning @ Design Innovation Workshop, Ahmedabad 2015

by Juliana Nazaré & Srishti Sethi

Project

Child-Driven, Robot-Guided Literacy Activity

 

Publication

Open-source, community-driven microfluidics with Metafluidics

Kong, D. S. et al. Open-source, community-driven microfluidics with Metafluidics. Nat. Biotechnol. 35, 523–529 (2017).

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From Tangibles to Toolkits and Chaos to Convection – Management and Innovation at Leading Design Organizations and Idea LabsWorkshop Site

Joseph A. Paradiso

Project

Cognition-Driven Audio Summarization

As we move towards an increasingly IoT-enabled ecosystem, we find that it is easier than ever before to capture vast amounts of audio data.…

Publication

Architecting complex international science, technology and innovation partnerships (CISTIPs): A study of four global MIT collaborations

Pfotenhauer, S., Wood, D., Roos, D., and D. Newman, “Architecting complex international science, technology and innovation partnerships (CISTIPs): A study of four global MIT collaborations,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Vol 104, March 2016, Pages 38-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2015.12.006

Publication

Open-source, community-driven microfluidics with Metafluidics

David Kong. Nature Biotechnology 35, 523–529 (2017)

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Meet the Media Lab’s New Learning Innovation Fellows

The Media Lab is thrilled to announce our inaugural cohort of Learning Innovation fellows for the 2016–2017 academic year.

Publication

User Innovation and Hacking

Eric von Hippel, Joseph A. Paradiso,

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Introducing the Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX)

Public libraries and the MIT Media Lab are kindred spirits. Together, we hope to design new programs for libraries across the U.S.

Event

Towards a “Foresightful Innovation”

Foresight is the Art and Science of inventing and designing the future. It is the first and key step of innovation in a fast changing&…

Monday
September 11, 2017
1:00pm — 2:00pm ET
Article

The barriers to innovation

Opera of the Future alum Joe Chung writes that Boston is ideally suited to become a hub of the world’s longevity-innovation ecosystem.

Event

Creativity in Innovation & Entrepreneurship

LocationHilton Austin Downtown, Salon C, 500 E. 4th St. Description

Tuesday
March 11, 2014
Event

Health and Wellness Innovation 2013

LocationMIT Media Lab Description Host/Chair: (Unpublished) John Moore

Monday — Thursday
January 21, 2013 —
January 31, 2013
Project

Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…

Article

Advancing industry convergence through technology and innovation

The 2021 School of Engineering Accenture Fellows are bolstering research and igniting ideas to help transform global business.

Event

Kent Larson @ Energy Innovations

LocationIntercultural Center Auditorium, Georgetown University DescriptionTowards Entrepreneurial, High-Performance, Livable CitiesKent Lar…

Thursday
December 1, 2016
Event

Health and Wellness Innovation 2012

LocationMIT Media Lab Description Additional Featured Research By (Unpublished) New Media Medicine Host/Chair: (Unpublished) John Moore

Tuesday — Friday
January 17, 2012 —
January 27, 2012
Article

Episode 85: Innovation at the Edge

David Sun Kong discusses the mission of the Community Biotechnology Initiative on the Mass Cultural Council’s podcast.

Event

The 2022 MIDI Innovation Awards

The MIDI Innovation awards give a platform for MIDI innovation and rewards products, prototypes, installations or concepts that are th…

Saturday
May 28, 2022
1:00pm — 3:00pm ET
Publication

Data Driven Material Modeling for 3D-Printing of Materially Heterogeneous Objects

Christoph Bader, Dominik Kolb, James Weaver, Neri Oxman

Publication

Moodtrack: Practical Methods for Assembling Emotion-driven Music

Vercoe, S. "Moodtrack: Practical Methods for Assembling Emotion-driven Music"

Publication

Hacking Innovation - Group Dynamics in Innovation Teams

Lederman, O. "Hacking Innovation - Group Dynamics in Innovation Teams"

Project

Andorra | Innovation

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and national…

Event

Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping, KDD Virtual Conference 2021

Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping: Harnessing Human-Machine Intelligence for High-Stake Public Policy and Resiliency Planning, KDD 2021 | &n…

Saturday — Wednesday
August 14, 2021 —
August 18, 2021
Article

Alumnus David Young is transforming the field of AI-driven digital artwork

Alum David Young talks to UC Santa Cruz, his undergraduate alma mater, about his work, which blends AI tools with digital design to make art

Project

Data-Driven Elevator Music

Our glass building lets us see across spaces�through the walls that enclose us and beyond. Yet invisibly, networks of sensors inside and ou…