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Fast Company's 2022 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees

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Photo by Genessa Panainte on Unsplash

Photo by Genessa Panainte on Unsplash

Congratulations to all of the honorees in Fast Company's 2022 Innovation by Design Awards, including the Media Lab community members and projects listed  below.

The honorees were recognized at an Innovation by Design party during the 2022 Fast Company Innovation Festival, and  will be included in the October 2022 print issue of Fast Company Magazine.

  • 3DKnITS (Irmandy Wicaksono and Prof. Joseph Paradiso; Responsive Environments)
    FinalistStudents
    Honorable MentionExperimental
  • OmniFiber (Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Hila Mor, Ken Nakagaki, Jack Forman, Ali Shtarbanov, Prof. Hiroshi Ishii, Aishni Parab, Dr. Seunghee Jeong, Prof. Klas Hjort, and Prof. Kristina Hook; Tangible Media, Responsive Environments, Harvard Wyss Institute, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Uppsala University)
    Finalist: Materials
  • Anicka Yi: In Love With the World (Sitara Systems. Opera of the Future alum Noah Feehan designed the technical side of this exhibition, and hired MIT EECS alum Nathan Lachenmyer to design the unique artificial life behaviors for each aerobe)
    FinalistExperience
    Honorable MentionExperimental
  • Bartleby (Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab at Cornell: the CAT Lab was founded by Civic Media alum J. Nathan Matias; MIT CSAIL PhD student Jonathan Zong, a visiting researcher at CAT Lab, is the corresponding author of this work) 
    Finalist: Students
  • Morphace (Morphing Matter Lab, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU): the Morphing Matter Lab was founded by Tangible Media alum Lining Yao; Prof. Yao and Tangible Media student Cathy Fang, then a student at CMU, were among the authors of this work, with Sijia Wang, Yiyao Yang, Kexin Lu, Maria Vlachostergiou)
    Honorable Mention: Students
  • ElectriPop (Future Interfaces Group, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU):  the research team included Cathy Fang, Jianzhe Gu, Prof. Lining Yao, and Prof. Chris Harrison)
    Honorable Mention: Students
  • ControllerPose/Full-Body VR Controllers (Future Interfaces Group, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU):  the research team included Karan Ahuja, Vivian Shen, Cathy Fang, Nathan Riopelle, Andy Kong and Prof. Chris Harrison)
    Honorable MentionStudents

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