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MAS.S64 - City Sci-fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Future Cities

This class is a hands-on workshop on fiction narrative and movie making.
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Design for the Future: Workshop. A Spring 2023 Class

Design for the Future: WorkshopMAS.S67: A Spring 2023 Class Open to All MIT, Harvard and Wellesley Students (Undergraduate and Graduat…
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Assistant Professor/Associate without Tenure (tenure-track) faculty search: Transformative Design

We seek candidates who have a bold vision for how design can help solve some of the societal and environmental problems we are facing.
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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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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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Beyond the Cradle

Beyond the Cradle
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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The One Earth Model: Geographic interoperability in the real-world metaverse

Michael Naimark considers the potential of the "real-world metaverse," which combines virtual experiences with specific physical places.
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Autonomous micro-mobility simulation study

What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&nb…
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Wedyan Babatain selected as one of MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35: MENA" for 2022

She was recognized for her work on the development of a soft multifunctional wearable platform.
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Two Mobility Futures 0∞

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an im…
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Welcome to the MIT Museum’s ‘spiffy’ new digs in Kendall Square

The museum’s director, John Durant, talks about the new location and installations including Media Lab alum Andy Cavatorta’s sculpture.
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The future of ALS devices: Next gen assistive technology aims to give patients a voice

Brain-computer interfaces, IoT and AI to fuel the advancement of assistive technology devices for ALS patients.
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How AI-generated art is changing the concept of art itself

Critics, practitioners, and researchers like Human Dynamics PhD student Ziv Epstein talk about AI-generated art..
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Denting the future at San Diego Comic-Con 2022

Dent the Future organizes annual 2022 science and tech panels featuring Sana Sharma.
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The Astronaut Ethnography Web Project: Insights from first-person accounts of space

S. Sharma, N. Klop-Packel, A. Ekblaw, “The Astronaut Ethnography Web Project: Insights from First-Person Accounts of Space.” AC-22,E1,9,19,x68611, 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Paris, France, 18-22 September 2022.
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Latent Lab

A tool for exploring the Media Lab’s research and synthesizing new project ideas.
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Ariel Ekblaw explains the future of space stations

In an interview, Ariel Ekblaw discusses the democratization of access to space and what it means for the future of space stations.
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Autonomous shared micro-mobility systems could be the next revolution in urban mobility

City Science researchers Naroa Coretti, Iñigo Martinez, Luis Alonso, and Kent Larson discuss their research on autonomous shared bicycles.
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Breathing Architecture

Ekene Ijeoma's Breathing Pavilion installation explores the power and meaning of breath.
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A conformable sensory face mask for decoding biological and environmental signals

Kim, J., Marcus, C., Ono, R., Sadat, D., Mirzazadeh, A., Jens, M., Fernandez S. V., Zheng, S., Durak, T., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Conformable Multimodal Sensory Facemask for Decoding Biological and Environmental Signals”, Nature Electronics, 5, 794–807, 2022. [Cover Image]
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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Spatial Flux: Body and architecture in space

Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new wor…
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
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Voice Your Choice: Creating a Community Engagement Process for New Magnet Programs in Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools

Effective community engagement is critical in diverse organizations, such as school districts. However, current methods, including surveys,…
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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) ne…
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Photorythms

Photorythms: a computational art-based inquiry of portrait photographyPhotorythms investigates whether computational methods such as facial…
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Liquid Learning

Continuing the work of Liquid Movies, we introduce Liquid Learning, an extension for not simply recommending videos but encouraging people …
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SenseMate: an AI-based platform to support qualitative coding

Many community organizations want to engage in conversations with their constituents but lack the support they need to analyze feedback. Mo…
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A Counting

A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
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Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
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conformable Multimodal Sensory Facemask (cMaSK)

Facemasks are used to reduce exposure to viruses and other environmental hazards such as air pollution, and integrating wearable electronic…
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Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar selected for MIT Open Data Prize

The MIT School of Science and the MIT Libraries present the inaugural MIT Prize for Open Data to highlight the value of open data at MIT.
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Teddy

Teddy is a cutting edge data collection platform available for both Android and iOS that lets you collect data from study participants in a…
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3DKnITS: Three-dimensional Knitted Intelligent Textile Sensor

Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
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Theme | Communication & Collaboration

Communication skills are critical for all. We  design and develop systems to help people with communication issues, eg  more empa…
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Developing community around design

Meet the MIT Morningside Academy for Design’s inaugural fellows, including Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar and Francesca Riccio-Ackerman.
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conformable Facial Code Extrapolation Sensor (cFaCES)

AbstractDevices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads or have rigid and bulky form factors&nbs…
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SEI Analog Environments Study: Adaptation, Collaboration, and Resilience in Extreme Environments

SEI Analog Environments StudyProject OverviewThe way humans engage with space has changed rapidly over the past 60 years, moving from a mod…
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Theme | Sleep & Dreams

We  build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
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Design and Clinical Evaluation of a Digital Transtibial Prosthetic Interface

The prosthetic interface consists of a compliant liner and rigid socket, and conventionally has been made through a very hands-on artisinal…
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Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV)

An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…
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Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
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Community Dialogue Data Trust (CODIDT)

Community Dialogue Data Trust (CODIDT) is an interactive digital platform that provides facilitated dialogue participants with personal dat…
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Income, Race, Bikes

Is the placement of bike-share docks equitable?This interactive map explores the question visually.The map shows the addition of bike-share…
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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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Viral Communications

People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
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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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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Project Captivate: A wearable platform for measurement and actuation across contexts

Project Captivate have been designed to serve as an easy and reliable platform to measure physiology in the real world.  We've desig…
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Fast Company's 2022 Innovation by Design Awards: Media Lab Honorees

The honorees will be included in the October 2022 print issue of Fast Company Magazine.
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SensorNets

SensorNets: Towards Reconfigurable Multifunctional Fine-grained  Soft and Stretchable Electronic Skins.SensorNets is a bioin…
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Space Fabrics: resilient electronic textiles for distributed sensing in low Earth orbit

Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. S…
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Learning Creative Learning

Learning Creative Learning is an online course and community of educators, designers, technologists, and tinkerers exploring creative learn…
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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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Why Are Prosthetics So Expensive? Researchers Are Working to Change That

"No one would ever expect people to build their own heart valves at home"-- Francesca Riccio-Ackerman on inequity in the prosthetic field.
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Scratch 3.0

Since the release of Scratch in 2007, young people around the world have programmed and shared more than 15 million Scratch projects . The …
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Scratch Mondays

Scratch Mondays is an initiative  to share the Scratch Day spirit to schools in Brazil. After having a big Scratch Day event in 2018 i…
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ScratchJr

ScratchJr makes coding accessible to younger children (ages 5-7), enabling them to program their own interactive stories, games, and animat…
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ScratchBit

ScratchBit is an effort to enable children to create more seamlessly in both the physical and digital world by creating a dedicated physica…
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aSpire: Clippable, Mobile Pneumatic-Haptic Device for Breathing Rate Regulation via Personalizable Tactile Feedback

We introduce–aSpire–a clippable, mobile pneumatic-haptic device designed to help users regulate their breathing rate via subtle tactile fee…