Event

#MLSXSW: Future Futures Lounge

LocationMoonshine Restaurant, 303 Red River Description#MLSXSWDates: Friday March 7 thru Monday March 10 (11am - 5:30pm daily)Science ficti…

Friday — Monday
March 7, 2014 —
March 10, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: The Future of Making

LocationAustin Convention Center, Ballroom D Description#sxsw #SxSWMake #MLSXSWThe idea of making isn’t just reserved for handmade bikes, a…

Friday
March 7, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: Infinite Future: Beyond Cyber & Hyper (Part 2)

LocationHilton Austin Downtown, Salon D, 500 E. 4th St. Description#sxsw #MLSXSW #MLSciFiScience fiction explores our wildest dreams and bi…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: Infinite Future: Beyond Cyber & Hyper (Part 1)

LocationHilton Austin Downtown, Salon D, 500 E. 4th St. Description#sxsw #MLSXSW #MLSciFiScience fiction explores our wildest dreams and bi…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Event

Future Futures Demos

LocationMoonshine, 303 Red River DescriptionMonday is the last day for the MIT Media Lab Future Futures Lounge! Stop by to check out new wo…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Project

Two Mobility Futures 0∞

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

Event

AI Futures Panel

As part of the AI Alchemy series the  AI Futures panel brings experts in computational creativity and generative AI from 4 time z…

Monday
October 10, 2022
12:00am ET
Event

Future Futures Workshop: Make Your Own Robot Head!

LocationMoonshine Lounge DescriptionMake your own robot head with Sputniko! in preparation for the evening's Cosmodrome party!We'll provide…

Friday
March 7, 2014
Group

Communications Futures Program

The Communications Futures Program conducts research on industry dynamics, technology opportunities, and regulatory issues that form the ba…

Event

Futures Past: Design and the Machine

LocationMIT Media Lab DescriptionFutures Past: Design and the Machine is a three-day conference on the institutional and intellectual histo…

Thursday — Saturday
November 21, 2013 —
November 23, 2013
Gallery

Two Mobility Futures - testing space

Prototyping and testing space of Two Mobility Futures 0∞.  

Event

Henry Lieberman Keynote @ CAAD Futures

LocationLiege, Belgium Description Additional Featured Research By (Unpublished) Software Agents

Friday
July 8, 2011
Post

In the press - Two Mobility Futures

Architect Norman Foster's Guggenheim Exhibition Is A Requiem For The Age Of Combustion by Nargess Banks for Forbes"An installation in the f…

Event

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ @Guggenheim Bilbao

A research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an immersive exhibit.

Event

Fostering Futures Forum 2024: Harnessing technology for wellbeing

​The MIT Media Lab's Affective Computing group and Foster America are co-organizing an innovative effort that centers on and supports youth…

Thursday
May 2, 2024
1:30pm — 5:30pm ET
Event

Data Provenance @ Mozilla Data Futures Lab

Recent breakthroughs in language modeling are powered by large collections of natural language datasets. This has triggered an arms race to…

Monday
January 22, 2024
11:00am — 12:00pm ET
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
Gallery

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ @Guggenheim Bilbao

Event

#MLSXSW: Opposites Attract

What happens when you combine ideas from one of the oldest art museums in the US with one of the world's edgiest research labs?

Tuesday
March 11, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: Filters, Bias, & Collaboration

LocationAT&T; Conference Center, Classroom 106, 1900 University Avenue Description#sxsw #MLSXSW #sxBiasATTENTION: You must signup in advanc…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: 2014 SXSW Interactive Awards

Location6th Floor, Downtown Austin Hilton (500 East 4th St.). Description#MLSXSWSXSW Interactive Festival Hall of Fame Honors Top Industry …

Tuesday
March 11, 2014
Event

Danielle Wood Speaks at the Smithsonian's Afrofuturism Series "Claiming Space: A Symposium on Black Futures"

Danielle Wood will speak at the session "Outer Space: Projecting Histories and Futures onto the Stars."

Saturday
January 29, 2022
2:00pm ET
Event

#MLSXSW | Democratizing the Internet of Things Is an Urgency

LocationHilton Austin Downtown, Salon JK, 500 E. 4th Street Description#sxsw #makermvmt #MLSXSWThe Internet of Things is not coming, it's a…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Event

Women’s Futures Month at the Smithsonian | Tell Me More: Living in Space!

Dava Newman will talk about her groundbreaking spacesuit, the BioSuit™, as part of the Smithsonian’s celebration of women and girls in STEM

Gallery

Explore Moon Architecture Workshop Digital FUTURES

Explore Moon ArchitectureWorkshop @Digital FUTURESNASA’s Artemis Program is envisioning a plan to drive humanity to live on our closest cel…

Article

Using game engines and “twins” to co-create stories of climate futures

Ceasar McDowell, among others, spoke to participants at the WORLDING workshop on “Land-Use Planning and Authorship."

Event

#MLSXSW: Can't We All Just Get Along?

LocationHyatt Regency Austin, Hill Country ABCD, 208 Barton Springs Road Description#sxsw #MLSXSW #GetAlongThere's too much contention in o…

Saturday
March 8, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: Workplace Distractions: A New Focus on Focus

LocationCourtyard Marriott, Rio Grande Ballroom, 300 E. 4th St. Description#sxsw #how2focus #MLSXSWDistracted at the office? You’re not alo…

Saturday
March 8, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: Hacking Attention: Media, Technology & Crisis

LocationRoom 9ABC, Austin Convention Center Description#sxsw #HackAttn #MLSXSWSuperstorms, bombings and protests around the globe are chall…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Project

Gravity Proof: Speculating Cosmic Futures

Gravity Proof is a performance and mission to prepare and cook bread in space. Inspired by ancient recipes and archaeological bread re…

Event

#MLSXSW: The BRCK–Designing from the Rest of the World

LocationAustin Convention Center, Room 9ABC DescriptionUshahidi is from Kenya; we know how hard it can be to get connected. Those who lack …

Friday
March 7, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: The LOLs of Nations: Understanding Global Memes

LocationAustin Convention Center, Room 10AB Description#sxsw #LOLnations #MLSXSWGlobal memes add snark and commentary to politics. Memes ha…

Saturday
March 8, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: The Avatar Will See You Now: Inside Virtual Health

LocationHilton Austin Downtown, Salon F, 500 E. 4th St. Description#sxsw #SXHealth #MLSXSWIn the future, virtual health care won’t be a lux…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Event

#MLSXSW: Build an Architectural Model of Your Own Futuristic Villian's Lair

LocationMoonshine Restaurant, 303 Red River DescriptionJoin Juliette Fritsch (Chief of Education and Interpretation at the Peabody Essex Mu…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Article

The MIT Press and the MIT Media Lab launch the Knowledge Futures Group

Leveraging the web’s power to create open, community-sourced access to knowledge

Publication

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: Complex Systems: Task Group Summaries

Task Group Summary 6 (The Brain), The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: Complex Systems: Task Group Summaries, 2009, ISBN 0-309-13725-X, National Academies Keck Future Initiative, National Academies Press, Washington DC.

Publication

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: Complex Systems: Task Group Summaries

Task Group Summary 6 (The Brain), The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: Complex Systems: Task Group Summaries, 2009, ISBN 0-309-13725-X, National Academies Keck Future Initiative, National Academies Press, Washington DC.

Course

MAS.S66 - City Sci-fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Ecology Futures

City Sci-fi  // Fall 2023 A City Science workshopFIRST CLASS:    September 13th (WED) - 2pm, E15-359Instructors:&n…

Video

Research Group Overview: Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium.

Group

Future Sketches

The Future Sketches group explores software as a medium for art and design, as well as how toolkits and pedagogical approach…

Post

Crypto Voting + US Elections: (Science Fiction) Short Stories From Potential Futures

These stories consider two potential futures for US democracy, branching from our present. One is dystopian, the other utopian.

Group

Opera of the Future

The Opera of the Future group (formerly known as Hyperinstruments) explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical c…

Person

Travis Rich

Video

Future Worlds

Our goal is for society to work for 100% of humanity and for all living beings, so they can thrive—here on Earth and in worlds beyond.

Group

Future Storytelling

The Future Storytelling working group at the Media Lab is rethinking storytelling for the 21st century. The group takes a new and dynamic a…

Article

Artist Ani Liu feels her way into an uncertain future

Alum Ani Liu, a 2019–20 University Arts Fellow at Princeton University, talks to The Daily Princetonian.

Group

Future Storytelling

The Future Storytelling working group at the Media Lab is rethinking storytelling for the 21st century. The group takes a new and dynamic a…

Event

FAST Future

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14, Sixth Floor Description

Saturday — Sunday
April 16, 2011 —
April 17, 2011
Group

Future of Learning

(For more Future of Learning projects, see Seymour Papert.) The world resonates with rhetoric about new needs and new opportunities for lea…

Event

Future of Mobility

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…

Wednesday
August 23, 2017
9:00am — 1:00pm ET
Event

Future of Interfaces

LocationStuttgart, Germany Description

Wednesday
May 5, 2010
Gallery

Joe Paradiso, Pattie Maes, and Hiroshi Ishii at launch of Institute for Future Technologies in Paris

The Institute for Futures Technologies (IFT) is a new space within the Pôle Léonard de Vinci in Paris (La Défense), which aims to…

Post

Design for the Future: Workshop. A Spring 2023 Class

Save the date for an end-of-year performance from the Spring 2023 class on the evening of Friday, May 19 in MIT Building E14 6th Floor: see…

Person

David Colby Reed

Research Assistant

Person

Justin Blinder

Former Research Assistant

Person

Joi Ito

Former Director; Former Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences

Group

Future of Learning

While most agree that learning in the twenty-first century needs to change drastically, few go so far as to question the basic conceptual a…

Project

Future Sketches at Artechouse

Future Sketches installed a group exhibition as part of Zach Lieberman's Future Sketches / Code Poems show at Artechouse, which opened duri…

Project

Future of batteries and future with better batteries

This is the 3rd concept exhibition of imaginarium of technology which explores the future with advancement of batteries and how battery tec…

Course

Black Feminist Thought and Design for the Future: A Fall 2023 Course

Danielle Wood invites students to rethink design guided by Black Feminist Analytics and artistic practice

Group

Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

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…

Person

Richard D. Borovoy

Former Research Scientist

Person

Gabriela Bila Advincula

Research Assistant

Event

3D: Printing the Future

LocationScience Museum, London DescriptionExplore this exhibition to discover how innovators are using 3D printers to turn computer data in…

Wednesday — Thursday
October 9, 2013 —
July 10, 2014
Article

I Hear Lucerne: Opera of the Future's New Collaborative Symphony

Article

The future of intelligence (artificial and otherwise)

Media Lab Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, MIT CSAIL Director Daniela Rus, and Prof. Josh Tenenbaum discuss the future of intelligence.