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Looking beyond smart cities
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Fluid Interfaces alum Harpreet Sareen is turning houseplants into sensors that make city life safer, smarter, and more alive.
How can exhibitions bring complex urban futures to broader, non-expert communities?City Science exhibitions translate research into rich pu…
Urban areas are responsible for 70% of global GHG emission, and must play a central role in solutions to global warming. Using Kendall Squa…
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…
Naroa Coretti Sanchez, Luis Alonso Pastor, Kent Larson, Can autonomy make bicycle-sharing systems more sustainable? An environmental impact analysis, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 113, 2022, 103489, ISSN 1361-9209, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2022.103489
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Coretti Sanchez, N., 2025. Shared Autonomous Micro-Mobility: Evaluating Fleet Performance, Operational Strategies, and Sustainability. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Buchthal, Joanna et al. "Non-invasive ovulation tracking enables genetic engineering in wild rodents." Cell Reports Methods, Volume 6, Issue 2, 101311
Interspecies Internet is working on a modular, open source data logger that can work with different animal species.
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo of Space Enabled is named one of The Explorers Club 50 for 2026 in the Innovators category.
In arid climates, the atmosphere is a source of water, but its extraction is energy-prohibitive.Many countries have arid climates in signi…
Decentralizing trust and disrupting power structures with cryptographic peer-to-peer exchange and distributed systems
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Media Lab projects honored in Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards.
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Kevin Esvelt spoke with 7News Boston about the “Mice Against Ticks” project and new approaches to preventing Lyme disease.
"Key challenges remain in creating integrated systems that offer seamless interaction and rich user experiences."
Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is an immersive research project that explores how radically different mobility paradigms—near-zero movement and ne…
MIT Media Lab–connected research, people, and community moments shaped headlines and campus life throughout 2025.
Doppelmarsh is a cross-reality sensor data browser built for experimenting with presence and multimodal sensory experiences. Built on evolv…
Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …
Danielle Wood was quoted in a Washington Post article.
MIT engineers design a system that uses a vibrating ceramic ring to produce clean drinking water from humid air in several minutes.
Shuvo, I.I., Díaz-Marín, C.D., Christen, M. et al. High-efficiency atmospheric water harvesting enabled by ultrasonic extraction. Nat Commun 16, 9947 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65586-2
The system can be paired with any atmospheric water harvesting material to shake out drinking water in minutes instead of hours.
CNN spotlights how MIT researchers developed a new ultrasonic device that can extract clean drinking water from moisture in the atmosphere.
W. Akbar, A. Allam and F. Adib, "Underwater Backscatter Networking for Subsea IoT: A Link-Budget Analysis in Practical Ocean Channels," in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 1703-1717, July 2025, doi: 10.1109/JOE.2025.3538946.
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Gold mining has played a significant role in Ghana's economy for centuries. Regulation of this industry has varied over time and while indu…
Findings reveal how satellite data supports African nations in driving progress on their environmental challenges.
Global biodiversity faces threats from climate change and human disturbance, which affect many species, especially large predators. These t…
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
MIT’s Living Climate Futures Lab takes a human-centered approach to investigating a global challenge.
Enhancing human physical capability
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
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks — and ticks usually becom…
Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
Accepted at UIST25With rising climate change and e-waste, BioLIG introduces a technique to functionalize bio-based materials through laser-…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Wood, D. (2025) NASA’s Earth-observing satellites are crucial - commercial missions cannot replace them, Nature News. Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02685-6 (Accessed: 26 August 2025).
Professor Wood is a recognized expert on the African Space Agency ( AfSA), which officially launched this year after a decade of incubation.
Anirudh Sharma was at a conference in India when he noticed black particles accumulating on his white shirt.
Protecting biodiversity with acoustic and visual sensing.The South American Bombus dahlbomii is one of the largest bee species in the world…
Machine learning in acoustics is an emerging field with great potential yet to be explored. Previous research includes predicting acoustic …