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Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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…
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
These grants aim to inspire MIT researchers to make a meaningful contribution to responsible technology development and deployment.
This award recognizes students who are building a better world.
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 …
Looking beyond smart cities
Enhancing human physical capability
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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.
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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…
ColloGraphy (colloquy+calligraphy) is a tangible way to interact and communicate with another person from a different time, whether a loved…
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.
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
The research on Community-based Social Innovation focuses on the reshaping of urban spaces by human social behavior, incorporating an analy…
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Symphony for the Koreas will be the latest installment of the celebrated City Symphony series. Over the next few years, Tod Machover and hi…
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
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.
One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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
A distributed sensing system for managing water resources in informal communities.
The MIT CCC participated in this year's Ars Electronica festival from September 6–10, 2023.
Through an embodied, spatial audio experience, Collective Echos makes tangible a living library of human experiences.In the face of intensi…
Human-AI Systems for Dialogue and Listening
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Learn about the Living Knitwork Pavilion: an interactive architectural installation that combined textile arts + engineering at Burning Man.
Abisola Okuk, who began her career at MIT as an admin in the Lifelong Kindergarten group, talks to MIT News about finding her passion.
Mary Niskala, a senior administrative assistant, talks to MIT News about her proudest moments at the Institute.
Media Lab student Ayşe Guvenilir and MIT alumni Mariam Dogar and Maisha Munawwara Prome share work from their poetry anthology.
The 27 finalists will explore the technology’s impact on democracy, education, sustainability, communications, and much more.
Bühler, M. et al., 2023. Harnessing Digital Federation Platforms and Data Cooperatives to Empower SMEs and Local Small Communities, OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION. India.
In a post for the MIT Governance Lab, Media Lab grad student Leonard Francis Vibbi discusses his recent work in Sierra Leone.
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically infe…
A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s Cen…
The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will genera…
Former Media Lab Professor Ethan Zuckerman speaks with The New York Times about the future of social media.
Catch David S. Kong on Joe Blair's Epic Human Podcast, as he discusses his mission to empower communities through biotechnology.