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Theme | City Science Network

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsFounded a decade ago, the City Science Network conn…
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Theme | Infrastructure Hubs for Informal Settlements

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…
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Theme | Transformable Environments and Sensing

We are developing hyper-efficient places of living that are dynamically transformable so that compact, more affordable spaces have three ti…
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Theme | Consensus

How can urban residents reach a shared vision of the future?Many excellent and potentially transformative ideas fail to be deployed in citi…
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Critical Matter

Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
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Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Agora

Agora is a training ground to help people practice building consensus by drafting and revising policies based on feedback from a population…
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The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
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CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
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AHA: Advancing Humans with AI

Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)
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Resonance

Resonance explores the relationship between mind and matter through an immersive contemplative installation. The work translates the brainw…
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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InSituWear: On-body Robotic Fabrication of Textiles

What if clothing  and textiles emerged in situ—woven by robots around the body itself, shaped by anatomy, motion, and material behavio…
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Cassandra Overney among 2026 cohort of MIT MAD Design Fellows

Cassandra Overney is named a 2026 MAD Design Fellow for her work in AI-powered civic engagement systems.
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Multisensory Intelligence

Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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2025 Technology Leadership Circle

The 2025 Technology Leadership Circle builds on the momentum of the 2024 Fostering Futures Forum, an event co-hosted with Foster America at…
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Theme | Sleep + Dream Engineering

We  build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
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A new type of electrically driven artificial muscle fiber

MIT researchers develop electrically driven artificial muscle fiber for soft robotics and prosthetics: compact, powerful, efficient systems
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Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles (Science Robotics)

Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles are a new class of artificial muscle fibers for robots and wearables. By integrating charge-injection electroh…
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Voice to Vision (V2V)

​Voice to VisionVoice to Vision (V2V) is a collaborative research and civic technology project that bridges the gap between community voice…
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Facilimate

During facilitated small-group conversations,  facilitators have to manage many tasks, including handling the technology, managin…
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Design as an Astronaut

A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Gaze to the Stars

What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
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OmniFiber: Strain-tunable Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Soft Robotic Textiles and Autonomous Garments

OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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MeshModule: A Playful Modular Mesh System for Creative Construction (UIST'25 Poster)

MeshModule is a modular construction platform composed of soft, 3D-printed mesh units designed for rapid prototyping of interactive, reconf…
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PixBric (UIST'25 Poster)

This study introduces PixBric, a pixel-based textile methodology composed of primitive geometries designed to induce controlled morphing be…
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PixBric (TEI'26)

PixBric: Precision Morphological Control of Pre-Stretched Fabrics ThroughTessellated Primitive Geometries3D printing onto pre-stretched fab…
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Festival of Learning

An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
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‘We May Have a Crisis on Our Hands’: The Unregulated Rise of Emotionally Intelligent AI

Rosalind Picard, head of Affective Computing group, comments on the growing emotional role of AI—and the risks it brings.
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Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming

Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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Application of Programmability to Commercial Banking and Payments with Kinexys by JP Morgan

This paper provides an overview of blockchain technology and smart contracts and explains how they enable multiple parties to deploy and ex…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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A Breakthrough in Breast Cancer Screening: An Interview with MIT’s Canan Dağdeviren

An interview with Canan Dağdeviren on new miniature ultrasound and how it could transform early breast cancer diagnosis.
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OctoStudio named to Notable Children's Digital Media list

The Notable Children’s Digital Media list recognizes real-time, dynamic, and interactive media content for children 14 years of age.
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Téo Xisto selected as 2026 Well-Being by Design Fellow

Téo Xisto of the Lifelong Kindergarten group is among the recipients of the 2026 Joan Ganz Cooney Center Well-Being by Design Fellowship
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Imaginary Atlas, Amazonia

Imaginary Atlas, Amazônia is an immersive installation and long-term research project that explores how Amazonian cities may evolve in a po…
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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A new way to “paint with light” to create radiant, color-changing items

“MorphoChrome,” developed at MIT, pairs software with a handheld device to make everyday objects iridescent.
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AI-driven "scent-memory machine" turns photographs into custom fragrances

MIT Media Lab has developed a prototype that uses generative AI to interpret and distil the contents of a photograph into a fragrance.
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Empowering K12 Educators: Fostering Collaborative Intelligence with Generative AI

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) interventions in education grow, there is an urgent need to co-design AI for education tools with educators…
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Ancestral Robots

This piece is part of the Imaginary Atlas, Amazônia project and combines traditional miriti wood sculpture with an electromechanical system…
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Beyond the scroll: Reclaiming attention of smartphone scrolling through adaptive interventions

Our project develops adaptive intervention systems for social media platforms where younger generations now spend an average of more than 2…
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With(in)

With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a s…
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Two Mobility Futures 0∞

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is an immersive research project that explores how radically different mobility paradigms—near-zero movement and ne…
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Swarm Cities, Ancestral Robots

This piece is part of the Imaginary Atlas, Amazonia project and combines traditional miriti wood sculpture with an electromechanical system…
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Machinoia: Machine of Multiple Me

Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by show…
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THEME | Urban Futures of the Amazon

Will the city swallow the forest, or will the forest reclaim the city? Or can we find a third way?The 21st century is a critical momen…
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MAS.834 Tangible Interfaces - Fall 2025

​MAS.834 Tangible Interfaces - Fall 2025Units: Units: G (Fall) 3-3-6 H-LEVEL Grad CreditWHEN:   Tuesday 1-4 pm WHERE:&n…
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Cyber Subin: Human-AI Co-Dancing

Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project aims to develop new methods fo…
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What if Eye? Computationally Recreating Vision Evolution

We evolve artificial embodied agents inside video-game worlds to replay millions of years of evolution and create new forms of artificial a…
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The Anemoia Device Turns Pixels Into Perfume

The Anemoia Device uses generative AI to mix custom scents that complement photographs and create synthetic memories.
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Polyglot Geometry

The MIT Wiesner Gallery presents PhD student Rebecca Lin’s work exploring mathematical abstraction, computation, and contemporary craft.
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MeshModule: A Playful Modular Mesh System for Creative Construction

Hye Jun Youn, Serena Xin Wei Sara, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2025. MeshModule: A Playful Modular Mesh System for Creative Construction. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST Adjunct '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 151, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3746058.3758420