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Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Enhancing human physical capability
The Imaginary Atlas, Brazil explores new urban futures for cities in the heart of Brazil’s forests. In partnership with traditional communi…
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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.
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Looking beyond smart cities
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
The Community Carbon Impact is a data visualization installation created by the MIT City Science group for the Boston Museum of Science's y…
Will the city swallow the forest, or will the forest reclaim the city? Or can we find a third way?The 21st century is a critical momen…
The Community Carbon Impact is a data visualization installation created by MIT City Science for the Boston Museum of Science's yearlong pr…
Optimizing environmental, social, and economic performance of citiesCities play a central role in the climate crisis. According to the late…
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
As climate-related disasters become more frequent, the need for actionable climate intelligence has never been greater. Earth Observa…
Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…
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
Can we build a battery-free underwater GPS? While underwater localization is a long-studied problem, we seek to bring it to batt…
B. Lütjens et al., "Generating Physically-Consistent Satellite Imagery for Climate Visualizations," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 62, pp. 1-11, 2024, Art no. 4213311, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2024.3493763.
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …
MIT researchers identify facility-level factors that could worsen heat impacts for incarcerated people.
Over the last few decades, numerous scholars have documented the fact that in general, people of color and other socio-economically margina…
Data-driven strategies to meet the Dual Energy-Climate ChallengeThe global community stands at a critical juncture, facing the dual energy-…
The projects selected are aimed at accelerating decarbonization through system analysis and insights.
FuseBot is a robotic system that can efficiently find and retrieve both RFID tagged and untagged target objects in line-of-sight, non-line-…
WORLDING workshop organizers collaborated with research scientist Dr. Rachel Connolly to co-design their first-ever in-person event.
A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…
They demonstrate the design in a paper published in PNAS Nexus.
Final projects created in MAS.S66 City Sci-Fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Ecology Futures, taught in Fall 20…
One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques fro…
On Bloomberg TV, Professor Danielle Wood talks to Romaine Bostick about the use of satellite data for environmental management.
Alum David Sengeh, now Chief Minister for the Republic of Sierra Leone, joined others for a fireside chat at the MIT Solve Challenge Finals.
In an article for the World Economic Forum, former Labber Honghao Deng looks at sustainability research from the City Science group.
On Curiosity Unbounded, Professor Fadel Adib, head of the Signal Kinetics group, talks to MIT President Sally Kornbluth about his work.
On the Gridlocked podcast, Media Lab Director Dava Newman and other experts consider what it will take to secure a clean energy future.
What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&nb…
Media Lab Director Dava Newman, who previously led the MIT Portugal program, still serves as a principal investigator for flagship projects.
In an interview recorded at VivaTech, Media Lab Director Dava Newman talks about the Media Lab's mission to enhance the human experience.
MIT spinoff C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures course, has developed an alternative to palm oil,
More than 95% of the ocean has never been observed by humans, even though the ocean plays the largest role in the world's climate system, h…
X-AR is an augmented reality (AR) system that gives humans "X-Ray Vision" X-AR is a new AR headset that enables users to see things th…
The system could be used for battery-free underwater communication across kilometer-scale distances to help monitor climate + coastal change
Van-Atta Acoustic Backscatter (VAB) is the first technology for ultra-low-power underwater networking and communication, which can transmit…
On the Gridlocked Podcast, Media Lab Director Dava Newman and other guests discuss the climate emergency, collaboration, and adaptation.
Shara Ticku, CEO of MIT spinoff C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures class, talks to Fast Company.
Kent Larson, head of the Media Lab’s City Science group, and PhD student Naroa Coretti Sánchez talk about the group's work and philosophy.
Representatives from the City Science Lab @ Shanghai (Tongji University) visited the MIT Media Lab to sign a continuation of their cooperat…
Slice of MIT profiles David Heller, co-founder of C16 Biosciences and producer of an environmentally friendly palm oil substitute.
Fadel Adib uses wireless technologies to sense the world in new ways, addressing sweeping problems such as food insecurity + climate change
Lab alum David Moinina Sengeh and others speak on TED Radio Hour about friction in its many uses and forms.
City Science researchers Naroa Coretti, Iñigo Martinez, Luis Alonso, and Kent Larson discuss their research on autonomous shared bicycles.
The device could help scientists explore unknown regions of the ocean, track pollution, or monitor the effects of climate change.
In a recent MISTI course, students engaged on collaborative solutions to climate, health care, and economic development in the Middle East.
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