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Venous Materials: Towards interactive, fluidic mechanisms

By Hila Mor, Yu Tianyu, Ken Nakagaki, Benjamin Harvey Miller, Yichen Jia, Hiroshi IshiiThe Venous Materials project envisions a new way t...
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Ekene Ijeoma on ‘Trying to Portray Hidden Things’

Professor Ijeoma, spoke with Evan Moffitt from Frieze about his recent group exhibition at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha.
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Tune Field

Novel Antenna-Based Controller for Musical ExpressionTune Field is a 3-dimensional tangible interface that combines and alters previously...
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E-maki: XR-enabled Scroll for Interactive Museum Artifacts

E-maki is a collection of ancient, painted scrolls accompanied by a cross-reality app that give contextual information and interactive ex...
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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PlusMinus

PlusMinus
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superpose - A connected experience of sound and space

The superpose installation mediates continuously changing wave phenomena within a space that are visible, audible, and react to the prese...
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2018 GSC Graduate Teaching Award

Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Media Lab's Space Enabled research group, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute A...
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Personalized Bionics for Dynamic Gait

The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, ba...
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An osseointegrated prosthesis with bi-directional neural communication

Recent advancements in orthopedic implants have made way for a new generation of bionic limbs that attach directly to the skeleton. Lever...
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Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis

The human ankle provides a significant amount of net positive work during the stance period of walking, especially at moderate to fast wa...
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City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
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Fluid Expressions - Watercolor in Microgravity

When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both ref...
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indi...
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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OmniFiber: Integrated Fluidic Fiber Actuators for Weaving Movement based Interactions into the ‘Fabric of Everyday Life’

By Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Ali Shtarbanov, Hila Mor,  Ken Nakagaki, Jack Forman, Karen Modrei, Dr. Seung Hee Jeong, P...
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Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity

MLA Babio, Guadalupe. Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity: Investigating decentralized energy networks for new urban environments. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021.
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing systems for cognitive support
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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Interplanetary Gastronomy

The  Interplanetary Gastronomy research  aims to address the unique challenges and opportunities associated with eating in...
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Informality Crowdsourced Database

Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Informality Crowdsourced Database. This platfor...
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Technologies Toolkit

Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science Group proposes the Technologies Toolkit.  This research aims to translate th...
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Lunar Sensor Net

We are leveraging current Wireless Sensor Network technology to develop an easily deployable, and inexpensive wireless sensor (LunarWSN) ...
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Astronaut Ethnography

Our journeys off-world have taught us just as much about humanity as the harsh environment of space. For the past 20 years, we have had a...
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KnittedKeyboard II

Spanning from the early Musical Telegraph and Electronic Sackbut, to the late EMS Synthi AKS and Moog Synthesizers, electronic music and ...
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Decoders 1.7: Introduction to Microfabrication

Style: Individual; PersonalThis class is graded P/D/F. To pass, you must: (i) attend all the cleanroom sessions, (ii) complete the sectio...
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Explore Moon Architecture Workshop Digital FUTURES

Explore Moon ArchitectureWorkshop @Digital FUTURESNASA’s Artemis Program is envisioning a plan to drive humanity to live on our closest c...
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Commalla: Communication for All

​Interested in learning more about the Commalla project?  Fill out this form! 
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Experimentally Verified Finite Element Modeling and Analysis of a Conformable Piezoelectric Sensor

Amiri, N., Tasnim, F., Tavakkoli Anbarani, M., Dagdeviren, C.†, Karami, A.†, “Experimentally Verified Finite Element Modeling and Analysis of a Conformable Piezoelectric Sensor”, Smart Materials and Structures, 30 085017, 2021.
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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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...
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Self Assembling Space Frames

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 ...
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Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal

The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will gene...
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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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FabricKeyboard: Multimodal Textile Sensate Media as an Expressive and Deformable Musical Interface

Wicaksono, I and Paradiso, J.A."FabricKeyboard: Multimodal Textile Sensate Media as an Expressive and Deformable Musical Interface
", New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) May 15-19, 2017. Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Pandemic Pulse

An application that drains your computer's resources at the rate of COVID-19 infections and deaths in your state. It exhausts your CPU po...
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KnittedKeyboard

Knitting is an established textile manufacturing technique that has been pervasive in the garment and technical fabrics industry. In comp...
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Zero Gravity Flight 2019

This mission included participation from several departments at MIT and outside collaborators from across the globe.
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Introducing: PLIX Inflatables!

The Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX) has recently released its latest creative learning activity: Inflatables!
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Therms-Up!: DIY Inflatables and Interactive Materials by Upcycling Wasted Thermoplastic Bags

Therms-Up! is a DIY method of creating inflatables and prototyping interactive materials from wasted thermoplastic bags that easily found...
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Child-Driven, Robot-Guided Literacy Activity

 
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Daily Sketches: Nina Lutz

Nina does daily sketches on Twitter @ninasketches or at the website for her 2021 sketches , where you can see them in all their glory.You...
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Community Biotechnology

Community Biotechnology
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The 2021 Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts

The Council for the Arts at MIT congratulates the recipients of the 2021 Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts.
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Aguahoja

Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...
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Silk Pavilion II

What are radically sustainable methods for knitting, making and building in the age of the Anthropocene? How can humankind and members of...
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Hybrid Living Materials

Hybrid Living Materials (HLMs) are formed by combining living and non-living materials such that the resulting composites take on the fun...
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Maiden Flight

Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductiv...
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Totems

Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level...
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Making Data Matter: Voxel-printing for the digital fabrication of data across scales and domains

We present a multimaterial voxel-printing method enabling the physical visualization of data sets commonly associated with scientific ima...
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Vespers III

Vespers is a collection of masks exploring what it means to design (with) life. From the relic of the death mask to a contemporary living...
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Glass II

Optically transparent and structurally sound, glass has played a significant role in the evolution of product and architectural design ac...
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Vespers II

Novel technologies for additive manufacturing are enabling design and production at nature’s scale. We can seamlessly vary the physical p...
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Silk Pavilion

The Silk Pavilion explores the relationship between digital and biological fabrication on product and architectural scales.The primary ...
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Rottlace

Rottlace is a family of masks designed for Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk. Inspired by Björk’s most recent album—Vulnicura—the Mediate...
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Glass I

Ancient yet modern, enclosing yet invisible, glass was first created in Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt 4,500 years ago. Precise recipes f...
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Wanderers

The Wanderers were unveiled as part of the exhibition: ‘The Sixth Element: Exploring the Natural Beauty of 3D Printing' on display ...
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Living Mushtari

How can we design relationships between the most primitive and the most sophisticated life forms? Can we design wearables embedded with ...
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Beast

Beast is an organic-like entity created synthetically by the incorporation of physical parameters into digital form-generation protocols....
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Gemini

Gemini—an acoustical “twin chaise"—spans multiple scales of the human existence extending from the warmth of the womb to the stretches ...
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Monocoque

French for "single shell," Monocoque stands for a construction technique that supports structural load using an object's external skin. C...
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Raycounting

Raycounting is a method for generating customized light-shading constructions by registering the intensity and orientation of light rays ...
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SpaceHuman 2.0

SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratiza...
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium