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Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Enhancing human physical capability
The device could help scientists explore unknown regions of the ocean, track pollution, or monitor the effects of climate change.
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Space Exploration Initiative
In a recent MISTI course, students engaged on collaborative solutions to climate, health care, and economic development in the Middle East.
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Creating technology for social change
Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.
In July 2020, Eugene Kirpichov + Media Lab alum Cassandra Xia started a Slack workspace called Work On Climate—today, it has 8,500+ members.
Faculty leaders highlight innovations that can close longstanding knowledge gaps and reimagine how the world responds to the climate crisis.
MIT scientists hope to deploy a fleet of drones to get a better sense of how much carbon the ocean is absorbing, + how much more it can take
Faculty leaders discuss the opportunities and obstacles in developing, scaling, and implementing their work rapidly.
Discussion at MIT explores ways the music industry can help in the battle to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Regenerative agriculture, or “carbon farming,” is the use of agricultural practices and crops that draw down excess atmospheric carbon thro…
The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for buddin…
CIS research affiliate describes his goals in creating a webinar series exploring sustainable development in Africa.
Prof Dava Newman fields listeners' questions about climate change and introduces EarthDNA, a platform for climate advocacy and action.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Climate change is going to alter the environments that we depend on in myriad ways. We're using data to identify and quantify these potenti…
Tidmarsh is a 600-acre former cranberry farm near Plymouth, MA that has undergone a restoration to wetland. We have instrumented the site w…
Sound and space are fundamentally intertwined, at both a physical and perceptual level. Sound radiates from vibrating materials, filling …
We already have all the tools we need to fix climate change. We just need to use them.
Humanity is facing thorny problems on all fronts. These folks are working to solve them—and trying to avoid the unintended consequences.
Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. However, shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel lie unique ecosyst…
The Intertidal Experimentation Workshop will take place September 29 and 30 (9am to 2pm) at the MIT Media Lab, open to students ages 8-14. …
Avery Normandin and Devora Najjar are on a mission to build literacy and appreciation for urban ecology.
The metaphor of the frog in water that is heated slowly has long been used to describe the potential risk of climate change.
EEEeb Spring 2019: Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this link.…
We now have more challenging choices to make than simply whether to be vegan, pescatarian or carnivore, thanks to technology.
Global climate change is projected to change our planet this century and beyond.
Thoughts from the Media Lab's Space Enabled group and Space Exploration Initiative
Small rises in temperature and dramatic weather events resulting from warming can affect mental health.
Obradovich, N., Migliorini, R., Paulus, M. P., & Rahwan, I. (2018). Empirical evidence of mental health risks posed by climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1801528115
Climate change presents a grave threat to overall human well-being, including mental health.
Add deadly car crashes and food safety risks — and the officials overseeing them — to the list of things affected by climate change.
Effects of environmental stressors on daily governance, Nick Obradovich, Dustin Tingley, Iyad Rahwan Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Aug 2018, 201803765; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1803765115
On excessively hot days, there are more likely to be fatal car accidents and food safety problems, and police officers and government food …
First, climate change was blamed for coastal flooding and wildfires. The links seemed intuitive and the effects observable. But more r…
If we are unable to adapt to climate change, it may amplify the marginal gap between citizen need and government assistance.
Weather really can affect our mood—or at least the way we express our emotions on social media, according to a study published Wednesday in…