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Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS, first composed by Professor Tod Machover in 1987, reboots at MIT for a new generation.
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Media Lab student Ayşe Guvenilir and MIT alumni Mariam Dogar and Maisha Munawwara Prome share work from their poetry anthology.
The first in a series of sculptures that capture natural light patterns over time using computer vision.This work seeks to investigate arch…
FrameGrabber is a simple, browser-based tool that lets the user upload an animation and convert it to a grid of stills.
Have you ever needed a single-line font rather than an outline of a typeface? For instance in the use of digital fabrication processes such…
This project hosts a few experiments of 2D visualization of 3D moving processes. All of the experiments relate to repeating, machine…
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
This project explores a computational method to use light as a medium for illustration. I experiment with a process to transform pixels int…
Cloud Light is a lighting object that draws inspiration from signed distance function geometries and nature. It functions as a lamp a…
The iconic sci-fi opera VALIS reboots for a new generation
Space Exploration Initiative
Enhancing human physical capability
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
The NIH reports on research from the Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School investigating the effect of naps on creativity.
The 2023 MIT recommended summer reading list includes a chapter in "Reclaiming Space" authored by Professor Danielle Wood.
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
The Washington Post reports on research from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School that naps could aid creativity.
Photorythms: a computational art-based inquiry of portrait photographyPhotorythms investigates whether computational methods such as facial…
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)
A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, e.g.,…
Community Biotechnology
A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) tools hold the…
In an interview recorded at VivaTech, Media Lab Director Dava Newman talks about the Media Lab's mission to enhance the human experience.
Drawing++ Workshop: using drawing as a means of understanding computationIn this workshop participants explore computational concepts …
Al·che·my is the process of transformation, creation, and combination. It is in this conceptual space that we frame the convergence of huma…
Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…
In a new study, researchers from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School find that brief naps can enhance creativity
Tod Machover’s first opera (he has now composed many more groundbreaking ones) was VALIS, and it made history when it premiered for the 10t…
Created by Media Lab PhD students Shruti Dhariwal and Manuj Dhariwal, CoCo is a digital learning platform that fosters collaboration.
Researchers from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School find that brief naps appear to enhance creativity.
MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Professor Tod Machover, head of the Media Lab’s Opera of the Future group, talks to the Washington Post about AI, music, & human creativity.
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
Catch David S. Kong on Joe Blair's Epic Human Podcast, as he discusses his mission to empower communities through biotechnology.
Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz discusses using “dream engineering” techniques to give people more control over their dreams.
This speculative design project from the Tangible Media group is supported by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST).
“MIT Illuminations” showcases the creative coding work of MIT community members, including Media Lab alumni.
Lawsuits over the development and use of AI tools can have huge implications on the creative process and intellectual property ownership.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
MIT Media Lab postdoc Ziv Epstein discusses issues arising from the use of generative AI to make art and other media.
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
A new study finds people are more creative after waking from the earliest stage of sleep, especially when guided to dream about a topic.
Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
Haar Horowitz, Adam, Ishaan Grover, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Cynthia Breazeal, and Pattie Maes. "Dormio: Interfacing with dreams." In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-10. 2018.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Leong, Joanne, et al. "Exploring the Use of Real-Time Camera Filters on Embodiment and Creativity." Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2021.
Perceptual illusions have the power to change our abilities and behaviours. Prior research in virtual reality (VR) has shown that transport…
The tech-forward composer Tod Machover has made a chamber opera of Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” featuring Joyce DiDonato.
Ruihan Zhang, a student in the Molecular Machines group, was lead organizer of this event in collaboration with MIT Film Makers Association
Smith, A., Schroeder, H., Epstein, Z., Cook, M., Colton, S., & Lippman, A. (2023). Trash to Treasure: Using text-to-image models to inform the design of physical artefacts.
Does using text-to-image models like Stable Diffusion in the creative process affect what people make in the physical world?
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium