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Tangible Media Group @ Milan Design Week

LocationSalone Del Mobile, Milan DescriptionLexus International will unveil the Tangible Media group's exhibit, "TRANSFORM," as part of the…

Wednesday — Sunday
April 9, 2014 —
April 13, 2014
Publication

TRANSFORM: Embodiment of “Radical Atoms” at Milano Design Week

Hiroshi Ishii, Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, Amit Zoran, Philipp Schoessler, Jared Counts,

Article

Inside YET: the luminous Lexus pavilion at Milan Design Week 2017

Neri Oxman, architect, designer and professor at MIT Media Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) with her team, The Mediated Matter G…

Job

Administrative Assistant, Tangible Media Group

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MIT Media Lab at Tokyo Design Week

LocationTokyo, Japan DescriptionJapan's greatest minds, Ken Mogi, Kengo Kuma, and Toshiyuki Inoko challenge MIT Media Lab Professor Hiroshi…

Friday — Saturday
November 1, 2013 —
November 2, 2013
Video

Research Group Overview: Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people.

Event

Tangible Media Group Exhibit

LocationNTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo, Japan DescriptionThe Lab’s Tangible Media group will hold its first large-scale exhib…

Friday — Sunday
June 23, 2000 —
July 9, 2000
Group

Tangible Media

We live on the border between two worlds: our physical environment and cyberspace. People have developed sophisticated skill…

Person

Bec Weeks

Former Research Affiliate

Event

Hiroshi Ishii + Michael Lin @ Taiwan Design Week 2023

Professor Hiroshi Ishii will be giving a keynote talk, and afterwards he will participate in a seminar moderated by Dr. Michael Lin.

Saturday
December 2, 2023
Post

Overview of Members Week 2050 Lab Updates (Community Design + Ethics Group)

We are proud to welcome Community + Ethics to the MIT Media Lab! As you may recall, Community + Ethics joined the Media Lab.

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Tangible Media Group: Radical Atoms Exhibition

How ideas derived from art can lead to new technological concepts.

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Media Lab @ MIT Space Week 2021

The Space Exploration Initiative and Space Enabled research group are participating in this year's Virtual MIT Space Week.

Event

TreeSense in Dubai Design Week

TreeSense is a sensory virtual reality (VR) system that transforms its user into the form of a tree.By tracking bodily movement and synchro…

Monday — Saturday
November 13, 2017 —
November 18, 2017
Course

MAS.834 Tangible Interfaces

MAS.834 Tangible Interfaces - Fall 2023WHEN:   Tuesday 1-4 pm WHERE:   E15-341THE FIRST CLASS:    S…

Article

bioLogic Self-Transforming Biological Skin by bioLogic team, Tangible Media Group

Event

Comcast week at the Media Lab - 2021

The MIT Media Lab is a community centered around research and invention—a place that builds ideas to change the world. As a valued member o…

Tuesday — Thursday
February 23, 2021 —
February 25, 2021
Event

Networked Playscapes + Design Week MX + Territorio Urbano Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura

Networked Playscapes will be presented as part of Territorio Urbano - a branch of Design Week Mexico - dedicated to reactivate Public Space…

Saturday — Thursday
October 8, 2016 —
March 9, 2017
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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.

Event

Spatial Flux at Unknown Unknowns - Milan Triennale

Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity.

Friday — Sunday
July 15, 2022 —
January 8, 2023
Event

MIT Generative AI Week: AI + Creativity

The Media Lab hosted the AI + Creativity session, as part of MIT Generative AI Week.

Post

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.

Event

Tangible Media Presenting Paper at SUI 2013

LocationACM Symposium on Spacial User Interaction, Los Angeles Description

Saturday
July 20, 2013
Publication

Spime Builder: A Tangible Interface for Designing Hyperlinked Objects

Leo Bonanni Vargas, G., Chao, N., Pueblo, S., and Ishii, H.

Article

Cultivating Creativity and Community in a Design-based Online Course

How might we leverage digital collaboration tools to support teens in building community and engaging in open-ended, design-based work?

Article

A Week at the MIT Media Lab, A Lifetime of Impact

Publication

SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations

Joanne Leong, Yuehan Wang, Romy Sayah, Stella Rossikopoulou Pappa, Florian Perteneder, Hiroshi Ishii. 2019. SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations. In CHI’19 Extended Abstracts, May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland Uk. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3312775

Post

TreeSense featured in Global Grad Show at Dubai Design Week 2017

TreeSense, a sensory VR experience that allows users to experience the full lifecycle of a tree, was  featured in the Global Grad Show…

Publication

Urp: A Luminous-Tangible Workbench for Urban Planning and Design

Underkoffler, J and Ishii, H.

Post

The Media Lab at the 2021 Core77 Design Awards

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Core77 Design Awards!

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Design Exploration: Towards a Moon Architecture

Webinar Series " Design Exploration: towards a Moon Architecture" | Invited talks and students' projects.

Publication

Illuminating Light: An Optical Design Tool with a Luminous-Tangible Interface

Underkoffler, J and Ishii, H.

Post

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

Computer as Chalk: Cultivating and Sustaining Communities of Youth as Designers of Tangible User Interfaces

Millner, A. "Computer as Chalk: Cultivating and Sustaining Communities of Youth as Designers of Tangible User Interfaces"

Article

Ori’s partnership with Marriott Hotels, announced at CES this week

Spinoff Ori, co-founded by alum Hasier Larrea, has announced an agreement to partner with Marriott Hotels’ Design Lab.

Publication

Tangible Bits: Beyond Pixels

Hiroshi Ishii

Post

Media Lab projects recognized in the 2018 Innovation by Design Awards

Winner and finalists in Fast Company's 2018 awards

Publication

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

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

Post

June 3 Exhibit and Show at Media Lab: Queer-Feminist-Antiracism and Design for the Future

Queer-Feminist-Antiracism and Design for the FutureJune 3 Exhibit and Show asks: "How can we work as Engineers, Scientists, Artists and Des…

Publication

Surflex: A Programmable Surface for the Design of Tangible Interfaces

Marcelo Coelho, Hiroshi Ishii, Pattie Maes

Publication

From storytelling to story making: children creating stories with tangible computational media

From storytelling to story making: children creating stories with tangible computational media

Publication

Iterative Design of Seamless Collaboration Media

Hiroshi Ishii, Minoru Kobayashi, Kazuho Arita

Project

SociaBowl: A Dynamic Table Centerpiece to Mediate Group Conversations

We introduce SociaBowl, a dynamic table centerpiece to promote positive social dynamics in 2-way cooperative conversations. A centerpiece s…

Publication

Bringing clay and sand into digital design — continuous tangible user interfaces

Hiroshi Ishii Ratti, C., Piper, B., Wang, Y., Biderman, A., and Ben-Joseph, E.

Article

Dr. Joy Buolamwini featured on Last Week Tonight

The segment highlighted Dr. Buolamwini's work on bias in AI.

Article

Mass STEM Week 2020 Keynote: Prof. Cynthia Breazeal on Teaching Ethical Use of AI

In October, MIT hosted the kickoff for Massachusetts STEM Week, which included a keynote by Cynthia Breazeal.

Article

At Mass STEM Week kickoff, MIT RAISE announces Day of AI

Artificial intelligence is top-of-mind as Governor Baker, President Reif encourage students to “see yourself in STEM.”

Publication

A Tangible Interface for IP Network Simulation

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Designing digital workspaces for creativity and collaboration in online project-based courses

Bringing project-based work online in two very different contexts: a middle school robotics course and a university product design studio.

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Ariel Noyman's work on CityScope selected for the Young Talent exhibition at Hebei International Industrial Design Week (HIDW)

The “HIDW Young Talent” exhibition addressed three topics: Manufacturing of Tomorrow, Future Craft, and City Catalyst.

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The Media Lab @ the MIT Museum

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