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Exploring the future of music through AI, multisensory expression, creativity, and sonic healing.
Looking beyond smart cities
Shayne Longpre, Ayush Chopra, and Ariel Ekblaw — named to MIT Technology Review's 2026 Innovators Under 35.
The Responsive Environments group at the MIT Media Lab is collaborating with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist and CAST Visiting Artist Jordan Rud…
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire, engage, and connect people
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Read more about where the Media Lab has been, and where it’s going, in MIT Technology Review.
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
"No single company report tells the whole story,” says Shayne Longpre, a recent PhD graduate from the MIT Media Lab.
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Prototyping a better future for communication through human-led, AI-assisted systems for collective listening, understanding, and action
Alum Rebecca Kleinberger teaches Animal–Computer Interaction at Northeastern, with students designing enrichment systems for zoo animals.
Media Lab spinoff Augmental, which was co-founded by Media Lab alum Tomás Vega and Corten Singer, has launched MouthPad.
Alumni Maxim Lobovsky, David Cranor, and Natan Linder discuss launching hardware startups in a new MechE course.
A keynote by MAS graduate Anna Huang (S.M. '08) anchors an evening of boundary-pushing research from the program's first graduate students.
How can exhibitions bring complex urban futures to broader, non-expert communities?City Science exhibitions translate research into rich pu…
Personal Robots alum Randi Williams on teaching children to question, understand, and reshape the AI systems woven into their daily lives.
Designing for, with, and by nature
Alum Georine Pierre is selected for a Pérez Art Museum Miami digital art commission from over 750 submissions.
Andrew Sliwinski, former codirector of MIT Media Lab's Scratch, on the power of multiple perspectives in learning and business
Biomechatronics researchers Carolina Warneryd and Duncan Lee win first and third place De Florez Awards at MExpo 2026.
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
MIT.nano Immersion Lab collaborates with Emerson College students to advance the art of virtual production.
Fluid Interfaces alum Harpreet Sareen is turning houseplants into sensors that make city life safer, smarter, and more alive.
During the course of daily activity, people are constantly adapting their ankle joint stiffness based on the type of activity they are doin…
How can we serve 2.5 billion people without access to centralized infrastructure for basic services?By 2050, more than 2.5 billion people a…
Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
We build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
An immersive MIT Museum installation invites visitors into a shared dream world shaped by art, science, and Media Lab research.
Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
Study from the Fluid Interfaces exploring dreams was referenced by TIME magazine.
Media Lab alum Adam Haar Horowitz, a cognitive scientist and CEO of DUST, treats sleep hours as a space to design and influence thought.
Media Lab alum Ehsan Hoque is inducted into the AIMBE College of Fellows for his work in scalable, ethical AI for health.
Media Lab alum Virj Kan is hoping to combat invasive purple sea urchins through a beautiful biomarble called Urchinite.
Voice to VisionVoice to Vision (V2V) is a collaborative research and civic technology project that bridges the gap between community voice…
Large language models are increasingly used for ideation, yet most interactions with them occur through linear GUI-based chat interfaces th…
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Media Lab alum Adam Haar Horowitz and his work mentioned in the Vogue article.
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Andrew Sliwinski, Lego Education’s head of product experience, discusses why young kids need to learn how AI models work.
“MorphoChrome,” developed at MIT, pairs software with a handheld device to make everyday objects iridescent.
Media Lab spinoff Tulip raises $120M at a $1.3B valuation to scale its AI platform for frontline manufacturing worldwide
An estimated 20-48% of youth in the United States have been exposed to multiple types of trauma in their childhood. This developmental trau…
Inventing, investigating, and inspiring human-AI systems for human flourishing
Media Lab alum Tinsley Galyean talks to the MIT Alumni Association about the power of curiosity.
The initiative has connected over 130 students with alumni who provide guidance on navigating the workforce.
Artists and engineers Karl Sims and Alexander Mordvintsev speak about the potential of artificial life and creativity with Peter Bauman.
Fathom Information Design, founded by alum Ben Fry, helped build Sentinel, winner of MacArthur’s $100M 100&Change award.
Media Lab alum Dr. Joy Buolamwini has been elected to the LDF Board of Directors, advancing work at the intersection of AI and civil rights.
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Over 600,000 youth in the United States experience abuse or neglect each year. Youth who are deemed to be at risk of significant harm in th…
Enhancing human physical capability
Lifelong Kindergarten alumna Srishti Sethi recognized for advancing openness and equity in global education.
Professor Danielle Wood and alum Dr. Joy Buolamwini are among those featured in The Genius Within art exhibition in Kendall Square.
Dan Novy, Media Lab alumnus, joins global analog astronaut mission simulating life on Mars in Armenia.
Perry Naseck, Lancelot Blanchard, and Jordan Rudess win 2025 MIDI Innovation Award for Jam_Bot, an AI-driven live performance system.
Xin Liu and Chloe Bensahel are finalists in the Art and Science category at the 2025 Falling Walls Science Summit.
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
Three members of the Media Lab community have received grants as part of MIT CAST’s 2025–26 projects.
Sam Rodriques, alum of the Synthetic Neurobiology research group, is recognized in the Innovators category of TIME100 AI 2025.
A startup has raised an initial round of funding to commercialize a technology that could create large structures in orbit.