Event

Technology + Fashion: Projects for Tomorrow and Today

LocationBoston Museum of Fine Arts DescriptionSputniko!, artist, designer, assistant professor at MIT Media LabKatia Vega, Nan Zhao, Cindy …

Wednesday
June 8, 2016
Article

The Future's Coming: Why we need to prepare for sci-fi tomorrows today

Teleportation may have to wait.

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

Project

Tomorrow's Typography

This thesis project explores how emerging (AI) technologies might transform how we shape and interact with typography. I will create three …

Project

Fashion in Space | Interactive Clothing: The Future of Fashion in Sci-Fi Context

By Xinyi Yang

Group

Toys of Tomorrow

explores ways that the digital revolution will transform the world of toys and play: old toys will become smarter; new toys will become pos…

Event

Cities of Tomorrow webinar

This new webinar series will explore the future of French and American cities and the importance of security and trust in the digital age.

Wednesday
September 23, 2020
11:00am — 12:30pm ET
Publication

Predicting Tomorrow's Mood, Health, and Stress Level using Personalized Multitask Learning and Domain Adaptation

Jaques, N., Rudovic, O., Taylor, S., Sano, A., and Picard, R. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 48, 17-33. August 2017.

Publication

Urbanhermes: Fashion Signaling and the Social Mobility of Images

Liu, C. "Urbanhermes: Fashion Signaling and the Social Mobility of Images"

Person

Masataka Hosoo

Former Director's Fellow

Event

Mitchel Resnick @ Schools for Tomorrow Conference

LocationThe Times Center, NYC Description

Thursday — Friday
September 22, 2011 —
September 23, 2011
Event

Home of Tomorrow - International Design Competition

Places for Change & Transformation2020 was a global experiment that profoundly altered human activity patterns. When public facilities …

Thursday — Saturday
July 1, 2021 —
September 4, 2021
Video

Beauty and the Bits, Wearables Fashion Show

Event

Anna Blom: The Future of Fashion

Anna Blom will share personal stories of inspiring people who are changing the fashion industry from the inside, one jumper at a time.

Tuesday
April 2, 2019
3:00pm — 4:00pm ET
Event

Education for Fashion Tech

Where is fashion education heading? Join us for a digital conversation on how fashion-technology is shaping future fashion creatives.3 roun…

Saturday
October 17, 2020
5:30am — 12:00pm ET
Publication

Personalized Multitask Learning for Predicting Tomorrow's Mood, Stress, and Health

Taylor, S.*, Jaques, N.*, Nosakhare, E., Sano, A. and Picard, R., "Personalized Multitask Learning for Predicting Tomorrow's Mood, Stress, and Health," in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1-1. doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2017.2784832 *Both authors contributed equally. WINNER: BEST OF COLLECTION

Article

Beyond Stilettos: Making High Fashion High Tech

When Amanda Parkes SM ’04, PhD ’09 was young, she was torn between learning about physics and reading an issue of Vogue cover to cover. Luc…

Publication

Awakened apparel: embedded soft actuators for expressive fashion and functional garments

Laura Perovich, Philippa Mothersill, Farah, J. B.,

Article

Projects, passion, peers and play: Seymour Papert’s vision for learning

Mitchel Resnick—on the power of Papert's ideas for learning.

Article

History's Great Recommenders: From ancient times to tomorrow

Michael Schrage considers the past, present, and future of recommendation engines, including Pattie Maes's advances in software agents.

Publication

Daytime Data and LSTM can Forecast Tomorrow's Stress, Health, and Happiness

Umematsu, T., Sano, A., and Picard, R. "Daytime Data and LSTM can Forecast Tomorrow's Stress, Health, and Happiness," the 41st International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC), p.2186-2190, Berlin, July 2019.

Article

This fashion label is making clothes out of air pollution

Pangaia is the first fashion label to print graphics using ink made out of toxic air pollution.

Article

Students Showcase 'Seamless' Pairing of Fashion, Technology

Publication

Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play

Resnick, Mitchel. Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity Through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play. MIT Press, 2017.

Post

Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play

Lifelong KindergartenCultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play, by Mitchel ResnickForeword by Ken Robinso…

Post

Media Lab X.0: Anthology of Tomorrows

As a part of Proseminar in Media Arts and Sciences, the newly-minted PhD cohort works together to envision future Media Lab research groups

Article

Science Fiction for tomorrow's day to day

Ariel Ekblaw speaks at Sónar+D

Publication

Aroma Perception and Chemistry of Bitters in Whiskey Matrices: Modeling the Old-Fashioned

Johnson, Arielle J., et al. "Aroma Perception and Chemistry of Bitters in Whiskey Matrices: Modeling the Old-Fashioned." Chemosensory Perception (2017): 1-14.

Article

Is the Bar of Soap Tomorrow's Smarterphone?

A gadget which measures grip could lead to a new way of interacting with our devices...

Event

Panel: What Is the State of Design Today?

LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium DescriptionThis talk is open to the public.A presentation of WeMadeThis.Es featuring North Americ…

Friday
February 1, 2013
Project

MAS.552 Modeling Zero-Carbon Cities - Students projects - Fall 2021

Climate change presents an existential threat to human civilization, and the IPCC report of August 2021 sounds like “a death knell for coal…

Article

The media today: The narrowing of the Internet

With Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple dominating their respective online markets, we plebeians visit fewer sites than we used to an…

Article

‘#techstyle’ Review: In Boston, the Future of Fashion

Article

Projects, Passion, Peers and Play: Seymour Papert’s Vision For Learning

Mitch Resnick explains how Papert’s ideas informed his thinking about children, learning and technology forever.

Article

Bringing construction projects to the digital world

The startup OpenSpace is using 360-degree cameras and computer vision to create comprehensive digital replicas of construction sites.

Publication

Multimedia Nomadic Services on Today's Hardware

Chris Schmandt

Project

Virtual Fashion: Cultural Dispersion on the World Wide Web

In the real world, people clothe themselves in garments whose cut and design encodes information about the social identity of the wearer. T…

Article

From Spinach-Sent Emails to 'WALL-E': Where Plants and Technology Intersect

This collaboration explores the intersection of plants and tech, from WALL-E to Media Lab alum Harpreet Sareen’s Cyborg Botany projects.

Article

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund commits $7.6M to projects that bolster civil society efforts

The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund today announced $7.6 million in support to nine organizations that aim to bolster…

Post

Wiring WIC, a virtual symposium presented by the WIC Health and Technology Initiative, co-hosted by the MIT Media Lab

​On May 23, 2022, Wiring WIC, a virtual symposium hosted by the WIC Health and Technology Initiative—a project of New America in collaborat…

Publication

What's Wrong with Today's Video Coding?

V. Michael Bove, Jr.

Article

Creating Creators—Projects, passion, peers, and play

Mitch Resnick introduces his contribution to the LEGO Foundation’s new Creating Creators report.

Article

30 Most Innovative Women Professors Alive Today

Cynthia Breazeal is an associate professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, where she also acts as Director of the Personal Robots Group.…

Project

Personal Research Projects

Our Personal Research Projects group is dedicated to the closure of the digital and educational divides and gaps as they effect the underse…

Event

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

Three research projects featured in The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility

Gallery

RAISE AI Playground Projects

Collection of AI projects built with the RAISE AI Playground.

Post

Zero Gravity Arts Projects

Arts and research projects from the Space Exploration Initiative's first parabolic flight that are being exhibited at Ars Electronica.

Event

Technology and Eating

LocationMoonshine, 303 Red River Description

Saturday
March 8, 2014
Gallery

Zero Gravity Arts Projects

Arts and research projects from the Space Exploration Initiative's first parabolic flight that are being exhibited at Ars Electronica. 

Person

David Kobia

Former Director's Fellows Program Alumnus

Post

City Sci-fi Spring'23: Students Projects

Final projects created in MAS.S64 City Sci-Fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Future Cities.Students were prompted to …

Publication

ATHack: Co-Design and Education in Assistive Technology Development

Narain, J., Ananthabhotla, I., Mendez, S., Taylor, C., Siu, H., Brugnaro, L., and Mallozzi, A. "ATHack: Co-Design and Education in Assistive Technology Development". Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Accepted.

Article

NASA funds three projects to study orbital debris, including a collaboration between Profs. Danielle Wood, Moriba Jah, and Richard Linares

Orbital debris consists of human-made objects orbiting Earth that no longer serve a purpose.

Article

Intestine-Inspired 3D-Printed Fashion Will Hold Glowing Bacteria

Person

Judith S. Donath

Former Research Scientist

Person

Celine Semaan Vernon

Former Director's Fellow

Project

Creative Learning

How the MIT Media Lab Learns, And How Everyone Else Can Learn This Way Too

Publication

Computer as Paint Brush: Technology, Play, and the Creative Society

Mitchel Resnick

Article

DuoSkin selected as a finalist in the 2017 World Technology Awards

DuoSkin was one of four finalists in the Design category of the 2017 World Technology Awards.

Publication

Making projects, making friends: Online community as catalyst for interactive media creation

Karen Brennan, Mitch Resnick, Andres Monroy-Hernandez