LocationWorkbar DescriptionScreening of a 14-minute documentary about the Media Lab's "Make the Breast Pump Not Suck" Hackathon with an int…
In September 2014, 150 parents, engineers, designers, and healthcare practitioners gathered at the MIT Media Lab for the "Make the Breast P…
A Case for Breastfeeding InnovationBreastfeeding saves lives.If women globally were able to meet the WHO's public health goal to exclusivel…
The Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon kicks off with inspirational talks by top designers, CEOs of women’s health companies who are f…
LocationMIT Media Lab Description
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"When the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck! hackathon, a collection of roughly a hundred and fifty engineers, designers, midwives, and parents…
Former Research Assistant
In an arresting new documentary, an environmental photographer captures the lives of everyday Americans on the front lines of climate change
The screenings highlight stories of the Black community in the US featuring innovation, tradition, and courage.
Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon at the Media Lab emphasizes social and political issues over engineering
LocationBartos Theater, MIT Media Lab, E15-070 Descriptionhttp://www.hbo.com/movies/temple-grandin#/Staring Claire Danes, Julia Ormond, Cat…
Kings of the World is an intimate musical portrait of a reclusive gipsy community in the South of France, which has produced world-famous m…
Special screening of An Insignificant Man - the story of Arvind Kejriwal & his insurgent party as they look to shake up Indian politics
Zero Gravity will be shown at the Carnegie Observatory in California, followed by a Q+A with the director and Zero Robotics' Danielle Wood.
Program in Media Arts & Sciences celebrates Women’s History Month with a film screening of Sisters with Transistors.The history of wome…
Join us at 6pm for pizza before the screening & please be sure to register for tickets using the button below.The MIT Program in Media …
The documentary Zero Gravity about the MIT Zero Robotics program, led by Danielle Wood, will be showing at the DOC NYC Film Festival.
MIT Program in Media Arts and Sciences celebrates Black History Month with a film screening of Neptune Frost.In an otherworldly e-waste cam…
Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association
The second iteration of this hackathon featured 66 films and 400 participants from local institutions, other states, and countries.
The MIT Media Lab’s Civic Media group is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that were assoc…
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).
Former Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences; Former Director, Center for Civic Media
The MIT Media Lab’s Center for Civic Media is no longer active. This site provides background on some of the people and projects that were …
Please join us for a seminar given by Ozge Akbulut, Associate Professor of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Sabanci University.Abst…
The new device, which can be incorporated into a bra, could allow more frequent monitoring of patients at high risk for breast cancer.
Augmented is a Nova PBS documentary produced by STAT News, which follows the development of a new amputation procedure and bionic prostheses
To help combat "interval" cancers, the Conformable Decoders group led by Prof. Dagdeviren, has developed a wearable ultrasound scanner.
Alexis Hope shares her thoughts on the Media Lab's panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2018
Alum Ani Liu talks about her solo show Ecologies of Care, which explores the intersections between parenting, biology, technology, commerce
The MIT Media Lab is setting out to reimagine the tired old monthly enterprise with a “period hackathon."
The film was a semi-finalist at the Flickers Rhode Island Film Festival and will be released online following a private screening at the Lab
Former Director's Fellow
The following Media Lab groups and projects are represented at CHI 2019
Four Emmy nominees in this year’s Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary category feature MIT students, faculty, and alumni.
Please join us on March 8 for the screening of Spanish Drama 20,000 Species Of Bees followed by a Q+A discussion. The screening is FR…
Watch the video, then read this post by Alexis Hope to learn more about her work at the Media Lab and her passions.
Barry, B. "Mindful Documentary"
LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th floor DescriptionThis hackathon held on the MIT campus is called Reality, Virtually because it will promote new …
It’s said that once you eat someone’s food, you become part of them too. I am for sure a different person after the With(in) project.
LocationMIT Media Lab, Third-Floor Atrium DescriptionThe Disrupting Mobility Hackathon 2015 will be about creating your own concepts for an…
LocationMIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium Description
A large proportion of the American population currently suffers from sleep disorders. Among them are patients with obstructive sleep apnea …
Former Director's Fellow
LocationMIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium Description
Revolutionizing the future of fluid-based robotics using charge-injection electrohydrodynamic fiber pumps. This work is in collaboration wi…
Du, W., Zhang, L., Suh, E., Lin, D., Marcus, C., Ozkan, L., Ahuja, A., Fernandez, S. Shuvo, I., Sadat, D., Liu, W., Li, F., Chandrakasan, A., Ozmen, T., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Conformable Ultrasound Breast Patch for Deep Tissue Scanning and Imaging”, Science Advances, 9, eadh5325, 2023.
Prof. Canan Dagdeviren talks to CBS News about a wearable ultrasound device that could allow users to detect early changes in breast tissue.
At its heart, documentary cinema has always been an experimental medium. Its evolution has been driven on the one hand by the creativity an…
LocationStockholm, Sweden Description
In Decoders 1.1, we learn cleanroom processes and microfabrication techniques through lectures in class and then in our very own cleanroom,…
Prof. Canan Dagdeviren talks to Boston 25 News about a wearable ultrasound device that could help detect early-stage breast cancer.
See and feel what it is like to become a tree in this haptically enhanced VR experience. With your arms as the branches and your body as th…
See and feel what it’s like to be one of the most essential building blocks of carbon-based life: a tree. This haptically enhanced virtual …
As part of the Boston Film Festival, the documentary Zero Gravity will have its Boston premiere in a screening at the MIT Media Lab.
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
We have developed a new process to screen patients at the point-of-care with FDA-approved technology-enabled mobile health screenings (TES)…
LocationSundance Film Festival, UT DescriptionWhen you think about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, filmmaking, civic activism, a…
The MIT Media Lab's Program in Media Arts and Sciences is supporting the festival, and presenting three films at the MIT Bartos Theater.
Former Director's Fellow