LocationMIT Media Lab DescriptionNEW FRONTIERS FOR MAKING & FABRICATIONDIGITAL DISRUPTIONSSTART-UP DRIVEN INNOVATIONPEOPLE CENTERED DESIGN
LocationApeejay Stya University in Delhi, India DescriptionThe MIT Media Lab and Apeejay Stya University will co-host the second Design & I…
LocationE14-633 DescriptionHumor and creativity both involve making non-obvious connections between seemingly unrelated things. Innovation,…
LocationPune, India DescriptionThe MIT Media Lab and the College of Engineering, Pune are hosting the first Design & Innovation workshop in…
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.
Congratulations to the Media Lab community members and projects honored in Fast Company's 2023 Innovation by Design Awards!
We're very excited to receive these honors, and we highly recommend reading the article they wrote about the project!
McLeish, T. "A Platform for Consumer Driven Participative Design of Open (Source) Buildings"
The honorees will be included in the October 2022 print issue of Fast Company Magazine.
Sheng-Ying Pao, Selene Mota, K. Chung, A. Reben
The competition, now in its tenth year, has featured a cross section of blue-chip companies, scruffy startups, and hungry young talents.
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.
The competition, now in its ninth year, has featured a cross section of blue-chip companies, scruffy startups, and hungry young talents.
RETOS—an AI-powered web platform to facilitate, enhance, visualize, and predict connections between thousands of challenges posted by rural…
Hirsch, E. "Contestational Design: Innovation for Political Activism"
Simoes, A. "The Observatory: Designing Data�__ѐDriven Decision Making Tools"
Complications of prosthetic leg use in persons with lower extremity amputation often occur at the prosthetic socket, and includes delayed w…
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.
Sawhney, N. "Cooperative Innovation in the Commons: Rethinking Distributed Collaboration and Intellectual Property for Sustainable Design Innovation"
The following Media Lab students joined the MIT India Initiative in Mumbai for this workshop.
Winner and finalists in Fast Company's 2018 awards
Labbers honored in Fast Company's Innovation By Design Awards 2017.
Supported by a $100 million founding gift, the academy will deepen the integration of design across the Institute and beyond.
Salzberg, S. "Fostering Innovation: Designing Technological Solutions to Proactively Encourage Informal Communication in the Workplace"
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).
LocationMIT Stata Center, Kirsch Auditorium Description
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 …
Stephen Intille, F. Albinali, Selene Mota, A.D. Nguyen, Y. Han, W.L. Haskell
Lecture by Dr. Jiaxing Huang , Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
by Juliana Nazaré & Srishti Sethi
Kong, D. S. et al. Open-source, community-driven microfluidics with Metafluidics. Nat. Biotechnol. 35, 523–529 (2017).
Joseph A. Paradiso
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.…
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
David Kong. Nature Biotechnology 35, 523–529 (2017)
The Media Lab is thrilled to announce our inaugural cohort of Learning Innovation fellows for the 2016–2017 academic year.
Eric von Hippel, Joseph A. Paradiso,
Public libraries and the MIT Media Lab are kindred spirits. Together, we hope to design new programs for libraries across the U.S.
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&…
Opera of the Future alum Joe Chung writes that Boston is ideally suited to become a hub of the world’s longevity-innovation ecosystem.
LocationHilton Austin Downtown, Salon C, 500 E. 4th St. Description
LocationMIT Media Lab Description Host/Chair: (Unpublished) John Moore
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
The 2021 School of Engineering Accenture Fellows are bolstering research and igniting ideas to help transform global business.
LocationIntercultural Center Auditorium, Georgetown University DescriptionTowards Entrepreneurial, High-Performance, Livable CitiesKent Lar…
LocationMIT Media Lab Description Additional Featured Research By (Unpublished) New Media Medicine Host/Chair: (Unpublished) John Moore
David Sun Kong discusses the mission of the Community Biotechnology Initiative on the Mass Cultural Council’s podcast.
The MIDI Innovation awards give a platform for MIDI innovation and rewards products, prototypes, installations or concepts that are th…
Christoph Bader, Dominik Kolb, James Weaver, Neri Oxman
Vercoe, S. "Moodtrack: Practical Methods for Assembling Emotion-driven Music"
Lederman, O. "Hacking Innovation - Group Dynamics in Innovation Teams"
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and national…
Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping: Harnessing Human-Machine Intelligence for High-Stake Public Policy and Resiliency Planning, KDD 2021 | &n…
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
Our glass building lets us see across spaces�through the walls that enclose us and beyond. Yet invisibly, networks of sensors inside and ou…