Event

inFORM @ Cooper Hewitt Design Museum

LocationCooper Hewitt Museum, New YorkDescriptionImagine handling objects virtually and physically in real time, from thousands of miles aw…

Monday — Sunday
December 1, 2014 —
May 31, 2015
Event

Open Agriculture in the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial with Cube Design Museum

Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial with Cube Design MuseumNature addresses the ways designers are exploring sustainable producti…

Friday — Monday
May 10, 2019 —
January 20, 2020
Post

Designing the Future of Agriculture: OpenAg at the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, the Barbican Centre, and the V&A Museum in 2019

OpenAg is invited to showcase its latest Food Computer design in the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, the Barbican Centre, and the V&A Museum

Post

Labbers win 2022 Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards

Alumni Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy along with former Labber Giorgia Lupi have been honored at this year’s National Design Awards

Event

Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial

The exhibition includes work from a number of Media Lab researchers and alumni.

Friday — Monday
May 10, 2019 —
January 20, 2020
Event

Neri Oxman's Wanderers Series @ Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial

LocationCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Description

Friday — Friday
February 12, 2016 —
August 12, 2016
Gallery

Interaction Design: Neri Oxman wins Cooper Hewitt National Design Award

Images from Neri Oxman and the Mediated Matter group, representing a large body of work from their research and collaborations.

Project

CityScope Cooper Hewitt

We are at the dawn of a mobility revolution, where autonomous vehicles will replace cars controlled by humans. We can imagine this developi…

Post

Neri Oxman Among Winners of Cooper Hewitt 2018 National Design Awards

Interaction Design category

Event

Media Lab Projects in Cooper Hewitt's The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility exhibition

Three research projects featured in The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility

Article

Alum John Underkoffler Wins Cooper Hewitt's 2015 National Design Award for Design Interaction

Post

The Museum of Modern Art has acquired the MIT Press colophon, created by Media Lab founding faculty member Muriel Cooper in 1965

The MIT Press colophon, or logo, is made up of seven bars that represent the lowercase letters “mitp” as abstracted books on a shelf.

Event

Vitra Design Museum: Instagram Live

Vitra Design Museum invites Neri Oxman to an Instagram Live Q+A session with Mateo Kries.

Wednesday
September 16, 2020
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
Person

Markus Elkatsha

Research Scientist

Person

Guadalupe Babio Fernandez

Former Research Assistant

Person

Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor

Research Scientist

Person

Gabriela Bila Advincula

Research Assistant

Person

Maitane Iruretagoyena

Technical Associate 1

Person

Margaret Church

Program Manager

Post

Future Fur: A collaboration in fashion, design, and technology

Researchers have come up with an innovation that will delight the fashion industry and people concerned about animal welfare: 3D-printed fur

Post

City Science Lab Opens in Guadalajara Museum of Environmental Sciences

The City Science Lab @ Guadalajara was established in 2019 via a cooperation agreement between the University of Guadalajara and the City S…

Event

Sputniko! @ MIT Museum

LocationMIT Museum DescriptionHigh speed robots? Humans colonizing space? How do today’s technologies reflect what we’ve seen on the big sc…

Friday
September 12, 2014
Post

The Media Lab @ the MIT Museum

We're thrilled to welcome our friends at the Museum to Kendall Square!

Article

A guided tour of the new MIT Museum

David Nuñez, an alum of the Media Lab’s Personal Robots research group, takes MIT Technology Review on a tour of the re-imagined Museum.

Person

Kent Larson

Professor of the Practice

Post

Muriel Cooper’s Lasting Imprint

Celebrating the design pioneer whose work continues to inspire outspoken creativity.

Person

Yasushi Sakai

Research Assistant

Person

Yan Zhang

Research Assistant

Article

Culturally Informed Design: Unearthing ingenuity where it always was

In this interview with MIT MAD, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar discusses his work, which explores the intersection of culture and technology.

Person

Kevin Slavin

Former Research Affiliate

Publication

Computational Information Design

Fry, B. "Computational Information Design"

Group

Scalable Cooperation

The MIT Media Lab’s Scalable Cooperation group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that w…

Person

Carson Smuts

Research Scientist

Publication

PingPongPlus: design of an athletic-tangible interface for computer-supported cooperative play

Hiroshi Ishii, Craig Wisneski, Julian Orbanes, Ben Chun, Joe Paradiso

Event

Connections Exhibit at MIT Museum

LocationMIT Museum DescriptionThis exhibition at the MIT Museum explores the social potential of new communication technologies. Art instal…

Thursday — Sunday
February 12, 2009 —
September 13, 2009
Event

Sandy Pentland @ MIT Museum

LocationMIT Museum DescriptionWhen big data meets social science: social physics, collective intelligence, and more!From Google to the NSA,…

Thursday
April 10, 2014
Article

MIT Museum Collection Highlights: Holography

Explore the MIT Museum's collection of holograms, which includes examples of the rainbow holograms developed by Stephen Benton.

Article

New MIT Museum glimpses the future and examines school’s past

The Boston Globe takes a tour around the new MIT Museum, highlighting a number of exhibits and events related to the Media Lab.

Person

Ronan Doorley

Former Research Scientist, Mobility

Publication

Private and Byzantine-Proof Cooperative Decision-Making

Abhimanyu Dubey and Alex Pentland. Private and byzantine-proof cooperative decision-making. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, pages 357–365, 2020.

Article

Welcome to the MIT Museum’s ‘spiffy’ new digs in Kendall Square

The museum’s director, John Durant, talks about the new location and installations including Media Lab alum Andy Cavatorta’s sculpture.

Event

Alum Jeff Lieberman @ MIT Museum

LocationMIT Museum DescriptionThis year is the XIXth Friday After Thanksgiving chain reaction event at the MIT Museum, so the theme is … sy…

Friday
November 25, 2016
Event

Rana el Kaliouby @ MIT Museum

LocationMIT Museum Description

Saturday
September 28, 2013
Event

Tod Machover @ Computer History Museum

LocationMountain View, CA Description

Wednesday — Thursday
June 27, 2012 —
June 28, 2012
Article

Faces of MIT: Mary Niskala

Mary Niskala, a senior administrative assistant, talks to MIT News about her proudest moments at the Institute.

Event

Mitch Resnick Speaking at Discovery Museums

LocationThe Discovery Musuems DescriptionIn today's rapidly-changing society, people must continually come up with creative solutions to un…

Wednesday
March 20, 2013
Publication

Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms

E. C. Ferrer, T. Hardjono, A. S. Pentland, M. Dorigo, Secure and secret cooperation in robot swarms. Sci. Robot. 6, eabf1538 (2021).

Article

Reimagined MIT Museum encourages visitors to join MIT’s community

“Whoever you are, this is your place.” The new museum opens Oct. 2 at the gateway between Kendall Square and campus.

Event

#techstyle @ Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Clothes that respond to the environment, dresses you can tweet, and garments that come off a 3D printer ready to wear!

Sunday — Wednesday
March 6, 2016 —
July 20, 2016
Person

Alex Berke

Research Assistant

Event

Tapis Magique and Knitted Keyboard @ KSU Museum

The Kent State University (KSU) Museum is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition, Knitting Beyond the Body. When you thin…

Saturday — Thursday
September 9, 2023 —
August 1, 2024
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"

Project

Language Vision: Exhibition at MIT Museum Studio

Where is the boundary between internal and external?  This series of animations serves as the title for an exhibition of the installat…

Event

Joi Ito Keynote @ New Museum's Ideas City

LocationIdeas City Description

Wednesday
May 1, 2013
Event

Brain, Body + Breath : Machover @ MIT Museum

A multisensory musical experience created by composer and innovator Tod Machover for the opening of the new MIT Museum.

Friday — Saturday
October 14, 2022 —
October 15, 2022
7:00pm ET
Event

MIT Museum Exhibit: Making Digital Tangible

“My dream is to make bits tangible and atoms dance.”—Hiroshi Ishii

Publication

Trash to Treasure: Using text-to-image models to inform the design of physical artefacts

Smith, A., Schroeder, H., Epstein, Z., Cook, M., Colton, S., & Lippman, A. (2023). Trash to Treasure: Using text-to-image models to inform the design of physical artefacts.

Event

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ at the Autostadt Museum

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and …

Friday — Sunday
February 17, 2023 —
June 4, 2023
10:00am — 6:00pm ET
Project

Meteorite Museum

Meteorite is a permanent, underground, interactive museum that opened in Essen, Germany in June 1998. Our group designed all of the intera…

Person

Ariel Noyman

Research Scientist

Event

Judith Donath on Post-Physical Representation @ MIT Museum

LocationMIT Museum DescriptionPortraits depict something essential about a person, usually by delineating the subject’s physical appearance…

Tuesday
April 7, 2009
Project

Global Cooperation

Measuring Cooperation at Scale