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With the Sandoval Family, Kent Larson , Pia M Sorensen and Álvaro Garrido and Lara Martin.
With Eneko Atxa, Joxe Mari Aizega, Joxe Mari Aizega and Elena Arzak.
Looking beyond smart cities
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Enhancing human physical capability
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.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
This speculative design project from the Tangible Media group is supported by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST).
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
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
Gastronomy and Beyond (G+B) aims to unite individuals who contribute to innovation in the realms of culture, products, territories, sustain…
Professor Deb Roy discusses his approach to creating spaces for listening and understanding in an age of polarization.
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
A distributed sensing system for managing water resources in informal communities.
Crossroads is an interactive social game where players dig deep into each other's past experiences by collaboratively generating and r…
ColloGraphy (colloquy+calligraphy) is a tangible way to interact and communicate with another person from a different time, whether a loved…
This award recognizes students who are building a better world.
Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Freedom Radio (in development) is an ongoing participatory artwork collecting multilingual thoughts and expressions of freedom across natio…
A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
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.
I have always been interested in the communities around coding.I love shader programming, I do it as a performance, but I have always felt …
As of August 2020, Ring has active partnerships with over 1400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforce…
In “Scientific InQueery,” LGBTQ+ MIT faculty and graduate students describe finding community and living their authentic lives.
This award is given to students from Macau, Hong Kong, and Mainland China who have demonstrated academic prowess and community involvement.
This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.
Hex House was co-founded by Char Stiles, a master's student in the Future Sketches research group.
AbstractDespite significant historical progress, discrimination and social stigma continue to impact the lives of LGBTQIA+ individuals. The…
People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)
Recipients of this award have shown commitment and passion for the community regardless of leadership position.
Professor Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots research group, is among the honorees.
The research on Community-based Social Innovation focuses on the reshaping of urban spaces by human social behavior, incorporating an analy…
The second iteration of this hackathon featured 66 films and 400 participants from local institutions, other states, and countries.
Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association
Symphony for the Koreas will be the latest installment of the celebrated City Symphony series. Over the next few years, Tod Machover and hi…
Media Lab alum Steve Mann, known as “the father of wearable computing,” talks to the MIT Alumni Association about his approach to new tech.
Several summer interns at the Media Lab talk about their experiences., the research they conducted, and what they learned.
A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) tools hold the…
The City Science Network is a collaboration of institutions + researchers sharing a the goal of enabling more livable, equitable communities
The MIT CCC participated in this year's Ars Electronica festival from September 6–10, 2023.
Human-AI Systems for Dialogue and Listening
Learn about the Living Knitwork Pavilion: an interactive architectural installation that combined textile arts + engineering at Burning Man.