Hybrid Living Materials (HLMs) are formed by combining living and non-living components such that the resulting composite takes on the pr...
A major concern for manned missions is space radiation. Ionizing radiation is known to pose both acute and chronic risks to many organism...
How might zero gravity space affect silk spinning, and what benefits might such material properties provide for digital fabrication and a...
Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductiv...
Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...
Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level...
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and the MIT Media Lab are joining forces to launch a global Council on ...
We present a multimaterial voxel-printing method enabling the physical visualization of data sets commonly associated with scientific ima...
Vespers is a collection of masks exploring what it means to design (with) life. From the relic of the death mask to a contemporary living...
The Wanderers were unveiled as part of the exhibition: ‘The Sixth Element: Exploring the Natural Beauty of 3D Printing' on display ...
The control of living systems as part of design interfaces is of interest to both the scientific and design communities due to the abilit...
Novel technologies for additive manufacturing are enabling design and production at nature’s scale. We can seamlessly vary the physical p...
The Digital Construction Environment is the first architectural-scale structure fabricated with the Digital Construction Platform (DCP). ...
The Digital Construction Platform (DCP) is an experimental enabling technology for large-scale digital manufacturing. In contrast to the ...
The Synthetic Apiary proposes a new kind of environment, bridging urban and organismic scales by exploring one of the most important orga...
Rottlace is a family of masks designed for Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk. Inspired by Björk’s most recent album—Vulnicura—the Mediate...
Optically transparent and structurally sound, glass has played a significant role in the evolution of product and architectural design ac...
How can we design relationships between the most primitive and the most sophisticated life forms? Can we design wearables embedded with ...
This research presents water-based robotic fabrication as a design approach and enabling technology for additive manufacturing (AM) of bi...
Prosthetic sockets belong to a family of orthoic devices designed for amputee rehabilitation and performance augmentation. Although such ...
Ancient yet modern, enclosing yet invisible, glass was first created in Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt 4,500 years ago. Precise recipes f...
Gemini—an acoustical “twin chaise"—spans multiple scales of the human existence extending from the warmth of the womb to the stretches ...
Computation and fabrication in biology occur in aqueous environments. Through on-chip mixing, analysis, and fabrication, microfluidic chi...
How can biological organisms be incorporated into product, fashion, and architectural design to enable the generation of multi-functional...
A collaboration between Professor Christine Ortiz (project lead), Professor Mary C. Boyce, Katia Zolotovsky, and Swati Varshaney (MIT). O...
Generating 3D Lichtenberg structures in sintered media (i.e. glass) using electricity offers a new approach to digital fabrication. By ro...
The Digital Construction Platform (DCP) is an in-progress research project consisting of a compound robotic arm system. The system compri...
A 3D-printed dress was debuted during Paris Fashion Week Spring 2013 as part of collaboration with fashion designer Iris Van Herpen for h...
The Biblical story of the Tower of Babel involved a deliberate plan hatched by mankind to construct a platform from which man could fight...
The Silk Pavilion explores the relationship between digital and biological fabrication on product and architectural scales.The primary ...
The PCB Origami project is an innovative concept for printing digital materials and creating 3D objects with Rigid-flex PCBs and pick-and...
The SpiderBot is a suspended robotic gantry system that provides an easily deployable platform from which to print large structures. The ...
How can additive fabrication technologies be scaled to building-sized construction? We introduce a novel method of mobile swarm printing ...
Functionally graded materials—materials with spatially varying composition or microstructure—are omnipresent in nature. From palm trees w...
The digitally reconfigurable surface is a pin matrix apparatus for directly creating rigid 3D surfaces from a computer-aided design (CAD)...
Carpal Skin is a prototype for a protective glove to protect against Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, a medical condition in which the median nerv...
A better understanding of the biomechanics of human tissue allows for better attachment of load-bearing objects to people. Think of shoes...
Beast is an organic-like entity created synthetically by the incorporation of physical parameters into digital form-generation protocols....
Raycounting is a method for generating customized light-shading constructions by registering the intensity and orientation of light rays ...
CNSILK explores the design and fabrication potential of silk fibers–inspired by silkworm cocoons–for the construction of woven habitats. ...
Rapid prototyping technologies speed product design by facilitating visualization and testing of prototypes. However, such machines are l...
French for "single shell," Monocoque stands for a construction technique that supports structural load using an object's external skin. C...
The values endorsed by vernacular architecture have traditionally promoted designs constructed and informed by and for the environment, w...