The Media Lab’s View
Cultivating creativity on a broad scale requires expertise that cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries. The Media Lab is uniquely positioned to mobilize a global creativity movement, building on our long tradition of weaving creative expression into all aspects of our work.
We have nurtured a creative culture within the Media Lab that sparks innovation in our courses and research, bringing together arts, education, technological innovation, empowerment, and social action. We collaborate with organizations around the world to engage people everywhere in creative exploration, experimentation, and expression.
We engage an unprecedented combination of diverse Media Lab groups to develop a new generation of tools, methods, and experiences to inspire and support creative thinking, creative expression, and creative computation—ultimately enabling people from all backgrounds to develop and share their ideas, explore new possibilities, and contribute to meaningful change in their communities, with special focus on people from communities that have been excluded and marginalized in the past. We will work closely with cultural, educational, philanthropic, entrepreneurial, corporate, and governmental organizations around the world to support and mobilize new communities of creativity.