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Article Research

MIT engineers use kirigami to make ultrastrong, lightweight structures

Using kirigami techniques, researchers at the MIT Center for Bits + Atoms have created complex metal structures that are lighter than cork.

via MIT News · Aug. 22, 2023
in Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#robotics #art #engineering +1 more
Post Research

Alumni Xin Liu and Nan Zhao collaborate on "Lycorises"

The series was initially inspired by the work of Ernst Haeckel.

Oct. 3, 2023
in Responsive Environments · Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#art #artificial intelligence #creativity
Research
Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +65 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in

#robotics #design #social networks +76 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people

#robotics #social networks #human-computer interaction +20 more
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Seamlessly weaving textile art, culture, and technology in the Living Knitwork Pavilion

Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono reflects on bringing The Living Knitwork Pavilion to Burning Man.

via The Burning Man Journal · Aug. 24, 2023
in Responsive Environments · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#design #architecture #art +4 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +48 more
Article Research

AI raises complicated questions about authorship

Robert Mahari, a PhD student in the Human Dynamics group, and other experts talk to Inside Higher Ed about copyright & generative AI tools.

via Inside Higher Ed · Aug. 22, 2023
in Human Dynamics · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
#art #artificial intelligence #machine learning +4 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing

#robotics #design #virtual reality +51 more
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +57 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Photorythms: Interactive

​In this new adjacent implementation of Photorythms as an interactive art installation, members of the public are invited to sit in front o…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Chelsi Cocking
#art #computer science #interactive
Project Research

Living Knitwork Pavilion

​2023 Burning Man Arts"Once upon a time, in the heart of the Black Rock City desert, a knitted shade structure seamlessly melded ancient an…

in Responsive Environments · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Irmandy Wicaksono · Manaswi Mishra +5 more
#design #architecture #art +6 more
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support

#robotics #design #virtual reality +40 more
Accepting Applicants
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#robotics #design #architecture +31 more
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +73 more
Accepting Applicants
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

#robotics #design #virtual reality +72 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Re-imagining the opera of the future

The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS, first composed by Professor Tod Machover in 1987, reboots at MIT for a new generation.

via MIT News · Sept. 27, 2023
in Opera of the Future · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#art #artificial intelligence #music +2 more
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop

#design #virtual reality #computer vision +45 more
Accepting Applicants
Post Research

FrameGrabber: Video to stills

FrameGrabber is a simple, browser-based tool that lets the user upload an animation and convert it to a grid of stills.

Aug. 27, 2023
in Future Sketches
#art #computer science #creativity +1 more
Project Research

Computational Knitting Patterns

​This project explores a few computational approaches to use the shape of a knitted garment as input for its pattern.This experiment combin…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Vera van de Seyp
#design #art #fashion
Project Research

SkeleText: Skeletonization of Typefaces

Have you ever needed a single-line font rather than an outline of a typeface? For instance in the use of digital fabrication processes such…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Vera van de Seyp
#design #art #computer science +2 more
Project Research

Simulating Motion with Computation

​This project hosts a few experiments of 2D visualization of 3D moving processes.  All of the experiments relate to repeating, machine…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Vera van de Seyp
#design #art #computer science +2 more
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +69 more
Research
Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +66 more
Accepting Applicants
Article Research

A guided tour of the new MIT Museum

David Nuñez, an alum of the Media Lab’s Personal Robots research group, takes MIT Technology Review on a tour of the re-imagined Museum.

via MIT Technology Review · Feb. 21, 2023
in Center for Civic Media · Affective Computing · Responsive Environments +4 more
#robotics #design #art +2 more
Article Research

Ghost in the machine

With Ghost in the Machine, alum Misha Sra and collaborator Purav Bhardwaj invite participants to consider the anthropomorphization of AI,

via UC Santa Barbara Computer Science Department · June 29, 2023
in Fluid Interfaces · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +2 more
Project Research

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…

in Civic Media · Fluid Interfaces · Personal Robots
Kathleen Esfahany · Eyal Perry +6 more
#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +19 more
Course Research

MAS.S66 - City Sci-fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Ecology Futures

City Sci-fi  // Fall 2023 A City Science workshopFIRST CLASS:    September 13th (WED) - 2pm, E15-359Instructors:&n…

MAS.S66 · with Kent Larson, Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor, Gabriela Bila Advincula
in City Science
#design #architecture #art +2 more
Project Research

Illuminate

What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Chelsi Cocking
#design #human-computer interaction #art +2 more
Project Research

Photorythms

Photorythms: a computational art-based inquiry of portrait photographyPhotorythms investigates whether computational methods such as facial…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Chelsi Cocking
#design #computer vision #art +2 more
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +36 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Archived
Project Research

The EBIFA robot (Everything Beautiful Is Far Away)

EBIFA (Everything Beautiful Is Far Away) is a crystalline robotic device that carried a tooth to outer space. EBIFA's form and fu…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Gershon Dublon · Xin Liu
#robotics #architecture #art +6 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Spatial Flux: Body and architecture in space

Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new wor…

in City Science · Space Exploration Initiative
Carson Smuts · Chrisoula Kapelonis
#design #architecture #art +4 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Telepresent Drawings in Space

This project asks, how can we transmit experiences across space and time? The launching point of the project is to create a drawing that co…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Anne Liu
#agriculture #architecture #art +4 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

OmniFiber: Strain-tunable Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Soft Robotic Textiles and Autonomous Garments

OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…

in Tangible Media · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Ozgun Kilic Afsar · Hila Mor +5 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +10 more
Archived
Article Research

For multimedia artist Nicole L'Huillier, sound is a portal for change

Opera of the Future PhD candidate Nicole L'Huillier discusses her multimedia artwork with WBUR.

via WBUR · Sept. 20, 2021
in Opera of the Future · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#art #music #technology +1 more
Project Research

Candlewax Rockets: A Green Alternative for In-Space Propulsion

Wax-based hybrid rocket propellants, including paraffin (common candlewax) and beeswax show promise as high-performing hybrid rocket propel…

in Space Enabled · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Javier Stober
#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
Project Research

▓▒░ TeleAbsence

People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)

in Tangible Media · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity +1 more
Hiroshi Ishii · Xiao Xiao +8 more
#art #communications #creativity +1 more
Project Research

Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…

in ML Learning · Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio · Lifelong Kindergarten +2 more
J. Philipp Schmidt · Ada Ren-Mitchell +7 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +11 more
Project Research

Black Forest

Black Forest is a participatory public artwork collecting the names and stories of Black lives lost to COVID-19 in the U.S. and planting tr…

in Poetic Justice · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds +1 more
Ekene Ijeoma
#design #art #politics +2 more
Project Research

A Counting

A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…

in Poetic Justice · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society
Ekene Ijeoma
#robotics #design #art +12 more
Project Research

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 enscon…

in Space Exploration Initiative · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Ariel Ekblaw
#robotics #design #agriculture +12 more
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Community Biotechnology

Community Biotechnology

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +29 more
Project Research

Aguahoja II

Aguahoja II builds upon the platform technology of its predecessor, enabling large-scale multi-material 3D printing with abundant, organic …

in Mediated Matter · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Nic Lee · Ramon Weber +4 more
#design #art #biology +1 more
Archived
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Aguahoja III

Aguahoja III expands the capabilities of a broad library of sustainable, organic 3D materials with generative patterns that countervail str…

in Mediated Matter · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Nic Lee · Joao Pedro Goncalves Marins Costa +2 more
#design #architecture #art +3 more
Archived
Project Research

Pharmamusicology: Exploring the Impact of Music on the Physiology and Psychology of Mental Health

As of 2020, approximately 40 million adults, or 18.1% percent of the adult population, in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders, …

in Opera of the Future · Biomechatronics · Affective Computing +2 more
Kimaya Lecamwasam · Max Addae +3 more
#human-computer interaction #art #cognition +1 more
Project Research

3 Voices: A Soft-Robotic Opera Transposing Singing Experience Across the Audience

3 Voices is an artistic research project that looks beyond conventional approaches of listening to music, and instead probes at the deeper …

in Tangible Media · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Ozgun Kilic Afsar
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +2 more
Project Research

3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Knitted Intelligent Textile Sensor

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…

in Responsive Environments · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Irmandy Wicaksono · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #human-computer interaction #art +22 more
Article Research

Generative AI is a minefield for copyright law

Postdoc Ziv Epstein, PhD student Robert Mahari, & Harvard Law lecturer Jessica Fjeld consider the issues of generative AI and copyright law.

via The Conversation · June 15, 2023
in Human Dynamics · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI
#art #artificial intelligence #ethics +1 more
Archived
Project Research

Envirome Monitoring with CRISPR Biosensors

In recent years, there has been an increase in low-cost and open-source electronic and chemical sensors that hobbyists, concerned citizens,…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative · Open Ocean
Devora Najjar
#robotics #architecture #art +14 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

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 refle…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Sanjana Sharma
#robotics #design #architecture +13 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

H0TP0T

By Larissa Zhou and Adam ZacharFood is crucial to maintaining the physical and psychological health of humans in space. Eating food pr…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Reconfigurable space structures

Rapid prototyping platforms such as 3D printers used for digital fabrication are today able to manufacture custom objects for specific task…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +13 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Zenolith - An Interplanetary Time Device

On Earth, morning, noon, and night have their own specific meanings. The feeling of a second or a minute passing by, the shortening of the …

in Space Exploration Initiative
Sands Fish · Che-Wei Wang +1 more
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Self Assembling Space Frames

Ever wish you could toss your folded up tent and have it self-assemble mid-air?  Well...you can. In a zero gravity environment.Self As…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Che-Wei Wang
#robotics #design #architecture +14 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Harmony in Precarity

By Po-Hao ChiHow could microgravity/hypergravity shape our perceptual experience of listening with weightlessness? How can we seek to explo…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Miniature Optical Steered Antenna for Intersatellite Communication (MOSAIC)

The Miniature Optical Steered Antenna for Intersatellite Communications (MOSAIC)By Shreeyam KackerThe Miniature Optical Steered Antenn…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Moving Liquids With No Moving Parts

Solid-state microfrabricated devices are in development to replace contemporary heavy mechanical components for use in spacecraft propellan…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Ø-scillation: oscillating chemistry in zero gravity and beyond

How did life originate? Nobody knows. Life might not even be native to our Earth - it might have come from asteroids or the interstellar me…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Ariel Ekblaw · Carson Smuts +5 more
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

AgriFuge

By Somayajulu Dhulipala and Manwei ChanAs humanity explores deeper into space, long-duration missions will require horticulture activities …

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Panspermia

By Nancy Valladares and Rae Yuping HsuThis project is an art performance that seeks to rethink imaginaries of multispecies surviv…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

SpaceHuman 2.0

SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratizati…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Valentina Sumini · Joseph A. Paradiso +2 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +16 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Space/Craft

Space/Craft explores sculpting in zero gravity. Making artistic works by hand is a fundamentally human act, but how will it transform …

in Space Exploration Initiative · Civic Media
Alexis Hope · Tim Savas
#art #space #technology +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

ELI: Electronic Life-detection Instrument

Life on Mars, if it exists, could have been transferred between Earth and Mars due to meteorite impacts. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial G…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Orbit Weaver

Gravity anchors all existence on Earth.It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is everywh…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Xin Liu
#design #agriculture #architecture +8 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Orbit Weaver Suit

​​​​​​​​​The Orbit Weaver Suit for zero gravity was designed by Media Lab Director's Fellow Andrea Lauer in collaboration with Xi…

in Space Exploration Initiative · Director's Fellows
Andrea Lauer · Xin Liu
#design #art #fashion +3 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Space Webs as Infrastructure for distributed sensor networks and other infrastructure on low gravity bodies

We study textiles and nets as a base form for growing infrastructure and allowing reconfigurable sensing on low gravity bodies (for instanc…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Juliana Cherston · Paul Strohmeier
#design #architecture #art +7 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Smells for Space: Olfactory Timecapsule for Earthly Memories

Each new technology forces us to confront who we are as humans.  As technological innovations in deep space exploration keep advancing…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Anne Liu
#design #art #space +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

The Telemetron

Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and during …

in Opera of the Future · Space Exploration Initiative
Nicole L'Huillier · Sands Fish +1 more
#robotics #design #architecture +13 more
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