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Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Using 3D imaging combined with Ambient Noise Tomography we will test advanced Earth technologies to map lava tubes on the Moon.Humanity is …
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
The method could help communities visualize and prepare for approaching storms.
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
The PhD research of alum Guillermo Bernal (Fluid Interfaces group), with current Affective Computing group researcher Nelson Hida…
Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
2D Spintronic and Neuromorphic Devices for Sustainable Artificial Intelligence
Inventing disruptive technologies for nanoelectronic devices and creating new paradigms for life-machine symbiosis
Alum Marian Muthui is the New Product Introduction Programme Manager at BasiGo Kenya, where her team assembled Kenya's first electric buses.
Looking beyond smart cities
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Humanizing Agent-Based Models (h-ABM) emerges as a pioneering technique to simulate real-world behaviors, aiming to seamlessly bridge …
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Enhancing human physical capability
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Researchers have developed a method that allows a 3D printer to identify the parameters of unknown materials to use algae, wood, and more.
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
MIT researchers identify facility-level factors that could worsen heat impacts for incarcerated people.
Over the last few decades, numerous scholars have documented the fact that in general, people of color and other socio-economically margina…
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Historically, technology transfer has been associated with efforts to construct mechanisms allowing the exporting/importing of technol…
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Data-driven strategies to meet the Dual Energy-Climate ChallengeThe global community stands at a critical juncture, facing the dual energy-…
"Autonomous operations are critical for the success, safety, and crew survival of NASA deep space missions beyond low Earth orbit, includin…
C. Paige, D.D. Haddad, Trent Piercy, J. Todd, F. Ward, A. Ekblaw, D. Newman. "Development and user study of the Operational Geology in a Virtual Environment (OGIVE) platform." Acta Astronautica, Volume 224, 2024, Pages 17-36, ISSN 0094-5765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2024.07.043.
Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
HexSense is a kind of sensor node that can be ballistically deployed to the desired area and collect data of interest. Each sensor node is …
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
To sustain long term human presence on the moon, the problem of exposure to ionizing radiation must be addressed to protect astronauts’ lon…
The lunar Navigation and Observation Mobile Architecture Design (lunarNOMAD) is a modular inflatable mobile science laboratory. lunarNOMAD …
With the growing presence of commercial spaceflight and NASA’s Lunar Artemis program, plans to establish a permanent lunar presence are in …
With NASA planning permanent bases in space and on the moon, MIT students develop prototypes for habitats far from planet Earth.
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
MicroPET is an autonomous payload for enzymatic reactions and microbial cultivation with fully programmable serial passaging and sampl…
The Design
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Beyond the Cradle
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…
COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst for reimagining urban spaces and emphasized the need for walkable, life-work balanced coummunities.&…
Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…
They demonstrate the design in a paper published in PNAS Nexus.
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Urban mobility is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. In this context, stakeholders such as governments and mobility operators ne…
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
Kajale, S.N., Nguyen, T., Chao, C.A. et al. Current-induced switching of a van der Waals ferromagnet at room temperature. Nat Commun 15, 1485 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45586-4
The AstroAnt is a tiny robot that will be sent to the Lunar South Pole. It will do inspection sensing from the outside of a Lunar rover. Th…
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
New generative AI technologies (such as the Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN) can allow us to imagine new species. Hidden within the …
Final projects created in MAS.S66 City Sci-Fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Ecology Futures, taught in Fall 20…
The challenge of understanding pandemics, illustrated by the recent COVID-19 outbreak, has significantly impacted global health and economi…
City Sci-fi // Fall 2023 A City Science workshopFIRST CLASS: September 13th (WED) - 2pm, E15-359Instructors:&n…
One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques fro…
On Bloomberg TV, Professor Danielle Wood talks to Romaine Bostick about the use of satellite data for environmental management.
The Space Sustainability RatingThe Space Sustainability Rating design team—comprised of the World Economic Forum, the European Space Agency…