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Over 600,000 youth in the United States experience abuse or neglect each year. Youth who are deemed to be at risk of significant harm in th…
Media Lab SEI’s 2024 microgravity flight features 37 parabolas and projects focused on health in space, walking in zero gravity, and more!
The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Enhancing human physical capability
People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
This paper provides an overview of blockchain technology and smart contracts and explains how they enable multiple parties to deploy and ex…
Looking beyond smart cities
Liquid crystal elastomer fibers incorporated into different weave designs create programmable and reversible structures.
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
Refashion program helps users create outlines for adaptable clothing, such as pants that can be reconfigured into a dress.
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)
Explore 563 trillion possible 7×7 grids on an infinite canvas, embedding MIT Media Lab's entire visual identity system.
The Imaginary Atlas, Brazil explores new urban futures for cities in the heart of Brazil’s forests. In partnership with traditional communi…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
OctoStudio is a free coding app available at octostudio.orgOctoStudio transforms how young people use mobile phones and tablets, enabl…
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
Xin Liu and Chloe Bensahel are finalists in the Art and Science category at the 2025 Falling Walls Science Summit.
Latent Lab reimagines how people interact with unstructured information by turning documents, images, and media into explorable semantic la…
This study introduces PixBric, a pixel-based textile methodology composed of primitive geometries designed to induce controlled morphing be…
Jack Forman, Rebecca Lin, and Lauren Ramlan have been named 2025 MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) Design Fellows.
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education: promoting equity in learning, education, + computational action to prepare diverse K-12
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Professor Wicaksono's work focuses on smart textiles.
Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project introduces an approach for tra…
MAS.834 Tangible Interfaces - Fall 2025Units: Units: G (Fall) 3-3-6 H-LEVEL Grad CreditWHEN: Tuesday 1-4 pm WHERE:&n…
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
With the fast-paced advancements in launch capabilities and space architecture, one can envision the introduction of large-scale structures…
Accepted at UIST25With rising climate change and e-waste, BioLIG introduces a technique to functionalize bio-based materials through laser-…
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with machin…
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Background and MotivationGeometric patterns are a prominent form of abstract ornamentation found throughout the Islamic world, characteriz…
On September 21st, 2024, we concluded a year-long collaboration with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist Jordan Rudess, culminating in a sold-out pe…
We introduce the Generic Pan Tilt, an open-source, two-axis motion control platform designed for use in entertainment, art, and research. …
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
Analogia is a customizable conversation game that guides players to tell emotion-rich personal stories by combining story 'threads' wi…
Raechel Walker and Cynthia Breazeal awarded Best Paper at RESPECT 2025 for work linking data science, youth organizing, and education.
Raechel Walker, Brady Cruse, Aisha Cora, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2025. Redefining Data Science: Where Transformative Youth Organizing Meets Arts-Based Abolitionist Education. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT 2025). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 78–89. https://doi.org
Paola Antonelli shares her perspective on design as a deeply educational and social practice.
We're living in an aging society with cognitive loss placing stress on caregivers to monitor older adults struggling with memory decline.&n…
Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
Radical Atoms Exhibition at the MIT Museum.Tangible Media Group | MIT Media LabPhoto Credit: Anna Olivellahttps://mitmuseum.mit.e…
What does it take to get a group of strangers to open up?DisCourse is a curated dinner series that transforms a meal between strangers int…
The 2025 Technology Leadership Circle builds on the momentum of the 2024 Fostering Futures Forum, an event co-hosted with Foster America at…
Aurelia Institute serves as a research lab, an education and outreach center, and a policy hub for the space industry.
The ninth edition of the Teaching with Digital Technology Awards includes MIT Media Lab instructor Zachary Lieberman.
MLA Babio, Guadalupe. Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity: Investigating decentralized energy networks for new urban environments. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021.
How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design visu…
Machine learning in acoustics is an emerging field with great potential yet to be explored. Previous research includes predicting acoustic …
This presentation explored the application of real time stable diffusion to improve the efficiency of virtual production workflows.
MicroPET is an autonomous payload for enzymatic reactions and microbial cultivation with fully programmable serial passaging and sampl…
HyperCubes is an augmented reality platform to help children understand computational concepts drawn from their physical surroundings, from…
MIT students and faculty designed and fabricated a control room for a unique lunar landing mission — an achievement in design + engineering