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Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Looking beyond smart cities
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Space Exploration Initiative
Prolonged exposure to microgravity is known to cause various acute health risks, including muscle atrophy, bone loss, cardiovascular decon…
Enhancing human physical capability
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Bühler, M. et al., 2023. Harnessing Digital Federation Platforms and Data Cooperatives to Empower SMEs and Local Small Communities, OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION. India.
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
In a post for the MIT Governance Lab, Media Lab grad student Leonard Francis Vibbi discusses his recent work in Sierra Leone.
According to WHO, epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disease globally. CDC statistics show that 1 in 26 individuals in the U.S…
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
For more details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radica…
A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Wax-based hybrid rocket propellants, including paraffin (common candlewax) and beeswax show promise as high-performing hybrid rocket propel…
Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
Mayor’s youth employment program brought local high schoolers to MIT this summer.
A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
Community Biotechnology
Latent Lab is an AI-driven knowledge exploration system designed to navigate through the 4,000+ research projects within the Media Lab. Ut…
City Science researchers are engaging in an exploratory process to understand, develop, and model a platform with a focus on the 15-minute …
In recent years, there has been an increase in low-cost and open-source electronic and chemical sensors that hobbyists, concerned citizens,…
Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. S…
The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will genera…
The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing h…
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
By Larissa Zhou and Adam ZacharFood is crucial to maintaining the physical and psychological health of humans in space. Eating food pr…
Rapid prototyping platforms such as 3D printers used for digital fabrication are today able to manufacture custom objects for specific task…
On Earth, morning, noon, and night have their own specific meanings. The feeling of a second or a minute passing by, the shortening of the …
Ever wish you could toss your folded up tent and have it self-assemble mid-air? Well...you can. In a zero gravity environment.Self As…
By Po-Hao ChiHow could microgravity/hypergravity shape our perceptual experience of listening with weightlessness? How can we seek to explo…
The Miniature Optical Steered Antenna for Intersatellite Communications (MOSAIC)By Shreeyam KackerThe Miniature Optical Steered Antenn…
Solid-state microfrabricated devices are in development to replace contemporary heavy mechanical components for use in spacecraft propellan…
How did life originate? Nobody knows. Life might not even be native to our Earth - it might have come from asteroids or the interstellar me…
By Somayajulu Dhulipala and Manwei ChanAs humanity explores deeper into space, long-duration missions will require horticulture activities …
By Nancy Valladares and Rae Yuping HsuThis project is an art performance that seeks to rethink imaginaries of multispecies surviv…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratizati…
Life on Mars, if it exists, could have been transferred between Earth and Mars due to meteorite impacts. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial G…
Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and during …
Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…
The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
Mental Machine: Labour in the Self Economy, 2022, is a live performance by Kawita Vatanajyankur made in collaboration with Pat Patara…
Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …
The Community Dialogue Data Trust (CODIDT) is an interactive digital platform designed to empower participants in facilitated dialogues wit…
Media Lab PhD student Isabella Loaiza is building data-driven tools to help people all over the world navigate the future of work.
Teddy is a cutting edge data collection platform available for both Android and iOS that lets you collect data from study participants in a…
In January 2023, a team led by MIT PhD Candidate and MIT CCC Research Assistant Belén Saldías hosted several workshops on Human-Center…
Thank you for your interest in our Data Activism program. All available spots for this program have been filled. If you would li…
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
Press: - MIT News: Using reflections to see the world from new points of view- TechXplore, EuropaPress, La Nacion …
MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Traditional additive manufacturing processes, especially those that make use of liquid resin as the feedstock, are constrained by the gravi…
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Six teams conducting research in AI, data science, + machine learning receive funding for projects with potential commercial applications.