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Space Grip Shoe

Project Overview The Space Grip Shoe (SGS) is an iconic concept presented across the history of space fiction, from 2001: A Space Od...
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Capturing the Moon

By Cody Paige & M. Regina A. Moreno
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The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel Bellisle
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Fashion in Space | Interactive Clothing: The Future of Fashion in Sci-Fi Context

By Xinyi Yang
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Bouncy Castles in Space: Dodging Blast Ejecta Using Rapid Pressurisation

By Aleksy Dojnow
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Reinventing the Spindle—A First Experiment in Gravitational Craft

By Ebru Kurbak
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Fluid Expressions - Art and Craft in Microgravity

When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both ref...
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Congratulations to everyone graduating in 2022!

Your flexibility, perseverance, and dedication have been nothing short of inspirational.
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Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (AttentivU - P-POP)

​The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of futur...
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Spring 2022 Class: Space Technology for the Development Leader (MAS.859)

MAS.859 Space Technology for the Development LeaderSpring 2022 MAS Graduate Course and Seminar SeriesDates for Spring 2022 Semester: ...
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Visualizing patterns of segregation

Segregation, or income inequality, is one of the major problems of our society. Residential segregation has long been of research interes...
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Minoo Rathnasabapathy Contributes to McKinsey Report on the Role of Space in Driving Sustainability, Security and Development on Earth

Five actions leaders can take to contribute to economic development, security and sustainability, and making space safe and accessible.
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The Science Behind Creativity

Seli is an assistant professor at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and also an artist. He uses Dormio to tap into hypnagogia.
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Make Magazine: Make Your Own Dream Incubator

First things first. Make sure you have your PCB, solder, soldering iron, flux pen, and electronic components ready to go.
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MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium announces recipients of inaugural MCSC Seed Awards

Twenty winning projects will link industry member priorities with research groups across campus to develop scalable climate solutions.
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Evaluation tool for sustainable decision-making during the architectural design

Orondo, J., Alonso, L., & Bedoya, C. (2017). Herramienta de evaluación para la toma de decisiones sostenibles, durante el anteproyecto arquitectónico = Evaluation tool for sustainable decision-making during the architectural design. Anales de Edificación, 3(1), 51-61. https://dx.doi.org/10.20868/ade.2017.3535
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Spinner

By Michael Luu
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Body-Borne Reality: Risky Disembodiment in VR
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KnittedKeyboard II

Spanning from the early Musical Telegraph and Electronic Sackbut, to the late EMS Synthi AKS and Moog Synthesizers, electronic music and ...
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On the simulation of shared autonomous micro-mobility

Naroa Coretti Sanchez, Iñigo Martinez, Luis Alonso Pastor, Kent Larson, "On the simulation of shared autonomous micro-mobility", Communications in Transportation Research, Volume 2 (2022): 100065, ISSN 2772-4247, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commtr.2022.100065
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The role of space in driving sustainability, security, and development on Earth

(contributions from Minoo Rathnasabapthy) By Ryan Brukardt, Jesse Klempner, Daniel Pacthod, and Brooke Stokes
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Dynamic V2V power-sharing for collaborative fleets of autonomous vehicles

González, J. M., Sánchez, N. C., Llop, P. G. M., Pastor, L. A., & Larson, K. (2021, October). Dynamic V2V power-sharing for collaborative fleets of autonomous vehicles. In 2021 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC) (pp. 408-413). IEEE
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CityScope: A Data-Driven Interactive Simulation Tool for Urban Design. Use Case Volpe

Alonso, L., Zhang, Y. R., Grignard, A., Noyman, A., Sakai, Y., Elkatsha, M., ... & Larson, K. (2019). Data-driven, evidence-based simulation of urban dynamics. use case volpe. Unifying Themes in Complex Systems, IX, 4.
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Aashini Shah one of 13 MIT undergrads, graduate students, and alumni awarded Fulbright fellowships in 2022–23

Sponsored by the US Department of State, the Fulbright US Student Program offers grants in over 150 countries.
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Navajo Star Traveler

By Alvin Donel Harvey 
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Simulation study on the fleet performance of shared autonomous bicycles

Sánchez, N. C., Martinez, I., Pastor, L. A., & Larson, K. (2021). Simulation study on the fleet performance of shared autonomous bicycles. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.09694
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OctoPlay

The Lifelong Kindergarten group is designing OctoPlay, a new mobile phone app that enables children around the world to create with code....
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Physical Instinct In Microgravity

By Michelle LinIn microgravity, the proprioceptive system undergoes adaptations due to the lack of constant gravitational cues [1]. Photo...
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Sara V. Fernandez wins 2022 Outstanding UROP Award

The Outstanding UROP Student Awards recognize students who have made outstanding contributions as undergraduate researchers.
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A Virtual Muscle Model of the Arm for EMG-Driven Control of Prostheses
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Life lessons from a cookie

What the science of baking taught me about leaving home and entering a new environment
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How Headspace Health is tackling the global mental health crisis

CNBC profiles Headspace Health, which was formed through a merger between spinoff Ginger and meditation + mindfulness app company Headspace.
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The present and future energy challenges | Energy Public Debates

Dava Newman and other experts talk about the ways our current energy challenges relate to space exploration, sustainable cities, etc.
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An Augmented Lean Ecosystem

Alum Natan Linder talks about spinoff Tulip Interfaces, which he co-founded with fellow alum Rony Kubat and Professor Pattie Maes.
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Quantifying Proprioceptive Experience in Microgravity
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Alvin Harvey Highlighted in MIT News on "Indigenous scholarship and community at MIT"

Space Enabled Collaborator, Alvin Harvey, was recently highlighted by MIT News on his work with Indigenous scholarship and community at MIT.
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To see just a sampling of the amazing work our newest alumni have done during their time at the Media Lab, explore our homepage!

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May 23, 2022
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Media Lab Community Awards and Recognitions

View recent awards and recognitions received by members of the Media Lab community in the modules attached here.
Sept. 2, 2021
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Canan Dagdeviren selected as runner-up for MIT Future Founders Initiative Prize Competition

The competition was co-hosted by MIT School of Engineering + the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, alongside Northpond Ventures.
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MicroPET : Investigation of Biodegradation of PET Plastics in Spaceflight

MicroPET aims to identify how microorganisms can efficiently degrade plastic waste and produce higher-value plastic materials, a process ...
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MicroPET is the top finalist for ISS National Lab Sustainability Challenge

Last Friday, the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory gathered a variety of thought leaders at a virtual event to discus...
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(Dis)Appearables: A Concept and Method for Actuated Tangible UIs to Appear and Disappear based on Stages

Ken Nakagaki, Jordan L Tappa, Yi Zheng, Jack Forman, Joanne Leong, Sven Koenig, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2022. (Dis)Appearables: A Concept and Method for Actuated Tangible UIs to Appear and Disappear based on Stages. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages.
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TESSERAE: Self-Assembling Space Architecture

Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...
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Gabriela Bílá Advincula’s vision for cities in motion

Two installations at the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Guggenheim Bilbao invite visitors to explore the future of urban mobility
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Space Enabled Affiliate Moriba Jah named MLK Visiting Professor

Space Enabled Affiliate Moriba Jah has been named an MLK Visiting Professor starting in January, 2023.
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Spring 2022 Class: Queer-Feminist-Antiracism and Design for the Future (MAS.S62)

Queer-Feminist-Antiracism and Design for the Future (Part II)How can we work as Engineers, Scientists, Artists and Designers to create&nb...
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RevUrb: Understanding Urban Activity and Human Dynamics through Point Process Modelling of Telecoms Data

Doorley, R., Noyman, A., Xiong, Z., Alonso, L., Grignard, A., & Larson, K. (2019, May 1). RevUrb: Understanding Urban Activity and Human Dynamics through Point Process Modelling of Telecoms Data. 2019 Smart Cities Symposium Prague, SCSP 2019 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/SCSP.2019.8805683
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MAS Research Talk Series - Spring 2022
March 25, 2022
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An Agent-Based Model of Social Fabric Seen as an Emergent Behavior

Palomo, G., Siller, M., Grignard, A., Alonso, L. (2021). An Agent-Based Model of Social Fabric Seen as an Emergent Behavior. In: Yang, Z., von Briesen, E. (eds) Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference of The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas. CSSSA 2020. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77517-9_10
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CityScope: An Urban modeling and Simulation Platform
Thesis, May 2022
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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Robot Companion for Better Wellbeing

Globally, depression affects more than 264 million people of all ages, and is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Several interactiv...
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Migratable AI

We live in a world of personified conversational assistants (agents). We interact with these agents in our daily lives such as smart spea...
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Huggable: A social robot for pediatric care

The Huggable is a new type of robotic companion for health care, education, and social communication applications. The Huggable is much m...
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Using Agile Methodologies In The Development Of A Wax Hybrid Rocket

A. Moreno, M. Regina, Javier Stober, Danielle Wood. "Using Agile Methodologies In The Development Of A Wax Hybrid Rocket," 3AF Space Propulsion Conference 2022, May 2022.
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Intelligent Agent. How Pattie Maes Almost Invented Social Media

Pattie Maes was inventing the core principles behind the social media age when Mark Zuckerberg was still in kindergarten.
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The faker: Deepfakes, lies, and cheerleading

Matt Groh offers a "less dystopian view" on deepfakes.
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Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping, KDD 2022

Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping: Harnessing Human-Machine Intelligence for High-Stake Public Policy and Resiliency Planning, KDD 2022 | ...
April 25, 2022
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DISSECT: Disentangled Simultaneous Explanationsvia Concept Traversals

One of the principal benefits of counterfactual explanations is allowing users to explore "what-if" scenarios through what does not and c...
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