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Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
Exhibition: The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology Location: Palazzo Diedo, Venezia | May 10 – November 23, 2025Earth and Planetary…
Looking beyond smart cities
Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…
Prof. Craig Carter’s precision design for a student-led project now on the moon encodes messages from around the world on a silicon wafer
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
The story of an MIT Media Lab alumna who is making AI education accessible to youth and using technology to empower diverse learners.
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
Media Lab alum Eran Egozy tells MIT Engineering that the potential for new musical creations is, for all practical purposes, infinite.
The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Enhancing human physical capability
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ow…
Data from the devices will help future astronauts navigate the moon’s south polar region and search for frozen water.
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
Butlr, founded by former Media Lab researchers, uses insights from thermal sensors to make buildings safe and efficient.
MM-RT is a tabletop tangible musical interface that employs electromagnetic actuators and small permanent magnets to physically induce soun…
Alum Brent Britton, now an intellectual property attorney, talks to Boston University School of Law.
Alum Adam Haar and artist Carsten Höller talk about the Dream Hotel—a collaboration that began with Höller’s 2021 MIT CAST residency.
Catherine D’Ignazio, a Media Lab alum and current professor in the MIT Department of Urban Studies + Planning, talks about her new book.
We are working with MIT CAST Visiting Artist Carsten Höller to build prototypes for a Dream Hotel museum exhibition which will translate ex…
He is among six MIT faculty and instructors who have received this award.
Media Lab alum + MIT DUSP Prof Catherine D’Ignazio thinks carefully about how we acquire and display data—and why we lack it for many things
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Dr. Buolamwini will receive this award at the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture.
Alum Marian Muthui is the New Product Introduction Programme Manager at BasiGo Kenya, where her team assembled Kenya's first electric buses.
“We are adding a new layer of control between the world of computers and what your eyes see,” says Barmak Heshmat, co-founder of Brelyon
Media Lab alum Andy Cavatorta talks to Slice of MIT about his kinetic sculpture "Whale," on display at MIT Museum.
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
Media Lab alum Ramesh Srinivasan, now a professor at UCLA, talks to the Daily Bruin about his new podcast, Utopias.
Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
These grants aim to inspire MIT researchers to make a meaningful contribution to responsible technology development and deployment.
Alum Rébecca Kleinberger (Opera of the Future) considers ways of building games that work for birds' unique needs.
Spinoff company Pienso has developed a user-friendly AI builder that empowers domain experts to build solutions without writing code.
In “Scientific InQueery,” LGBTQ+ MIT faculty and graduate students describe finding community and living their authentic lives.
The startup Augmental allows users to operate phones and other devices using their tongue, mouth, and head gestures.
Illuminate was featured in the AI, Metaverse + Virtual: Best Installation or Experience category.
Media Lab alum Rébecca Kleinberger, who’s now a professor at Northeastern University, talks about her work on sonic enrichment in zoos.
Nicole L'Huillier, an alum of the Opera of the Future group, is collaborating on a sound installation at this year's Venice Biennale.
What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…
Liu was selected from eight shortlisted artists for her work bridging art and science.
The following spinoffs were recognized in different industry sectors.
Addae received the award for VocalCords, which was developed as part of his master's thesis at the Media Lab.
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Lab aims to encourage multidisciplinary collaboration and solve large-scale, complex problems.
This project is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the San Diego Zoo to design and build interactive sonic enrichment systems fo…
Alum Akito van Troyer, who's now an associate professor at Berklee College of Music, talks about finding the music in everyday objects.
The Harvard Business Review dives into a technology that Media Lab alum Simon Greenwold named in his 2003 master's thesis.
Augmental co-founders have been recognized in the Social Impact category of the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
If you’ve ever touched a plasma globe— those glowing orbs full of electrical fire—you’ve experienced the work of Media Lab alum Bill Parker.
Alum David Sengeh, now Chief Minister for the Republic of Sierra Leone, joined others for a fireside chat at the MIT Solve Challenge Finals.
For Design Milk’s Friday Five, Media Lab alum Alexis Hope shares the work of five of her favorite designers.
Designing for, with, and by nature
A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) tools hold the…
Media Lab alums, Rob Morris (Affective Computing) and J. Nathan Matias (Civic Media), are among 25 honorees for Mozilla's Rise 25 awards.
The Joy Branch project explores different user interfaces to allow parrots to shape their sonic environment. Animal agency—contr…
Alum Rébecca Kleinberger discusses her work at the intersection of new technology, animal-computer interaction, and the sonic environment.