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Jordan Rudess + jam_bot: A Human-AI Musical Dialogue

The Responsive Environments group at the MIT Media Lab is collaborating with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist and CAST Visiting Artist Jordan Rud…
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MAS.834 Tangible Interfaces - Fall 2026

MAS.834 Tangible Interfaces - Fall 2026Units: Units: G (Fall) 3-3-6 H-LEVEL Grad CreditWHEN:   Tuesday 1-4 pm WHERE:&nb…
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Critical Matter

Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire, engage, and connect people
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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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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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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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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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The game’s the thing

Kayode Dada creates "Campus Trade," a trading card game for incoming students, with Center for Constructive Communication's Cassandra Lee.
How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
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Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
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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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Choreographic Interfaces: Wearable Approaches to Movement Learning in Creative Processes

Afsar, Ozgun Kilic, et al. "Choreographic Interfaces: Wearable Approaches to Movement Learning in Creative Processes." ACM CHI'21 Workshop HAA'21.
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Building Tomorrow's Space Habitats, One Tile at a Time

MIT Media Lab's Ariel Ekblaw is building self-assembling space habitats using TESSERAE — modular magnetic tiles that snap together in orbit.
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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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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Prototyping a better future for communication through human-led, AI-assisted systems for collective listening, understanding, and action
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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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Electrospun Fields

What if we built three-dimensional tensile structures by programming invisible electrostatic fields?Electrospun Fields is a mater…
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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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MeshModule receives Student Notable honor in Toys & Play at Core77 Design Awards 2026

MeshModule by Hye Jun Youn of Tangible Media Group wins the Toys & Play category at Core77 Design Awards 2026.
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City Science Exhibitions

How can exhibitions bring complex urban futures to broader, non-expert communities?City Science exhibitions translate research into rich pu…
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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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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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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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AxolRAG

We show that LLMs can provide significantly more reliable explanations of sensor data when it receives contextual information about people,…
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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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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 Re…
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The Anemoia Device wins Emerging Technologies category at Core77 Design Awards 2026

The Anemoia Device by Cyrus Clarke of Tangible Media Group wins the Emerging Technologies category at Core77 Design Awards 2026.
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The Anemoia Device

The Anemoia Device is a scent-memory machine that distills analogue photographs into bespoke fragrances.Guided by a generative AI models an…
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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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Imaginary Atlas, Amazônia named finalist for 2026 Games for Change Award

"Imaginary Atlas, Amazônia" by Gabriela Bilá is a finalist for Best in Environmental Impact at the 2026 Games for Change Awards.
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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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Alum Georine Pierre selected for Pérez Art Museum Miami digital art commission

Alum Georine Pierre is selected for a Pérez Art Museum Miami digital art commission from over 750 submissions.
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Wandering Through Bird Image Archives

I usually work with code that creates images, which I means I can easily explore the system using more code. Here, I wanted to see what I c…
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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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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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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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AHA: Advancing Humans with AI

Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)
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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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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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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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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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Tangible Co-ideation Across Time

Large language models are increasingly used for ideation, yet most interactions with them occur through linear GUI-based chat interfaces th…
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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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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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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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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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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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