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Agora is a training ground to help people practice building consensus by drafting and revising policies based on feedback from a population…
Nataliya Kos'myna, Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, and J. Nathan Matias are named 2026–27 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellows.
Urban areas are responsible for 70% of global GHG emission, and must play a central role in solutions to global warming. Using Kendall Squa…
How can urban residents reach a shared vision of the future?Many excellent and potentially transformative ideas fail to be deployed in citi…
How can we serve 2.5 billion people without access to centralized infrastructure for basic services?By 2050, more than 2.5 billion people a…
Our mission is to expand horizons, foster creativity, and explore a myriad of concepts. Gastronomy and Beyond is a collaboration betwe…
Looking beyond smart cities
Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsFounded a decade ago, the City Science Network conn…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Cassandra Overney is named a 2026 MAD Design Fellow for her work in AI-powered civic engagement systems.
Danielle Wood receives the 2026 Paul Gray Faculty Award for Public Service for her work advancing equity through the Space Enabled group.
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Buchthal, Joanna et al. "Non-invasive ovulation tracking enables genetic engineering in wild rodents." Cell Reports Methods, Volume 6, Issue 2, 101311
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon the…
People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
Voice to VisionVoice to Vision (V2V) is a collaborative research and civic technology project that bridges the gap between community voice…
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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
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.
Téo Xisto of the Lifelong Kindergarten group is among the recipients of the 2026 Joan Ganz Cooney Center Well-Being by Design Fellowship
A paper co-authored by Kimaya Lecamwasam explores how music and lullabies support infant and caregiver wellbeing worldwide.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Kevin Esvelt spoke with 7News Boston about the “Mice Against Ticks” project and new approaches to preventing Lyme disease.
Ryan Donovan and Sandy Pentland dive into the findings from Sandy’s new book Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI.
Experts explore human-centered AI in education, focusing on equity, AI literacy, and culturally aware tools for underserved communities.
OctoStudio is available for free at octostudio.orgOctoStudio is a free creative coding app that lets you create animations, games, and…
Inventing, investigating, and inspiring human-AI systems for human flourishing
The initiative has connected over 130 students with alumni who provide guidance on navigating the workforce.
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Fathom Information Design, founded by alum Ben Fry, helped build Sentinel, winner of MacArthur’s $100M 100&Change award.
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
MIT’s Living Climate Futures Lab takes a human-centered approach to investigating a global challenge.
Enhancing human physical capability
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Margaret Hughes and Cassandra Overney received an Honorable Mention for “Voice to Vision” at the MIT Prize for Open Data.
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
The emergence of AI companion applications has created novel forms of intimate human-AI relationships, yet empirical research on these comm…
Limb & Life is a collective of researchers dedicated to describing pressing challenges in rehabilitation services, especially in prosth…
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks — and ticks usually becom…
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
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.
The award honors impactful early-career research in health, development, and environment.
As generative AI tools become increasingly present in classrooms, schools face difficult questions about how to guide their use. This proje…
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.
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…
Professor Deb Roy discusses his approach to creating spaces for listening and understanding in an age of polarization.
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…