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Add deadly car crashes and food safety risks — and the officials overseeing them — to the list of things affected by climate change.
Looking beyond smart cities
Effects of environmental stressors on daily governance, Nick Obradovich, Dustin Tingley, Iyad Rahwan Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Aug 2018, 201803765; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1803765115
Climate change is going to alter the environments that we depend on in myriad ways. We're using data to identify and quantify these poten...
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
If we are unable to adapt to climate change, it may amplify the marginal gap between citizen need and government assistance.
Space Exploration Initiative
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Designing for, with, and by nature
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
Wearable and immersive systems for cognitive enhancement and personal growth
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehic...
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Open Ocean
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
By Joi ItoAround the time I turned 40, I decided to address the trifecta of concerns I had about climate change, animal rights, and ...
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Media Lab's Space Enabled research group, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute A...
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...
Māori residents on the Cook Islands have a long and deep connection to their island and ocean ecosystem. The Māori concept of Raui ...
Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and crea...
The Safecast has revolutionized citizen science.
Tree is a virtual experience that transforms you into a rainforest tree. With your arms as branches and body as the trunk, you experience...
Is it possible to experience being another life form? Created by Yedan Qian (Umeå Institute of Design) and Xin Liu from the Flu...
SCHOOL, ENERGY AWARENESSUsing TerMITes in the Santa Coloma School in Andorra we want to help students understand the relation between the...
EEEeb Spring 2018: April 15, 29; May 13, 27; June 3. To register, please visit this link.Sponsored and run by members of ...
What counts here—first and last—is not so-called knowledge of so-called facts, but vision—seeing. Seeing here implies Schauen [to see] (a...
Today's students have grown up in a world of rapidly evolving technology, and they are natural-born experimenters, programmers, and tinke...
OpenAg is committed to changing the way the world thinks about farming and food—and we need your help! As an open source project, we beli...
Move aside, smiley faces, clapping hands and dancing ladies. Emoji are finally ready to tackle serious issues....The project may be the f...
How well have humans adapted to the current climate, and how will we adapt to new climate complexities?This week, the Climate Conversatio...
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically in...
TreeSense, a sensory VR experience that allows users to experience the full lifecycle of a tree, was featured in the Global Grad Sh...
The Synthetic Apiary proposes a new kind of environment, bridging urban and organismic scales by exploring one of the most important orga...
Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering
The Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV) is an agile, on-demand, shared, and functionally hybrid tricycle.
Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each proje...
The CityCar electric automobile, developed and prototyped by Smart Cities, is designed to meet the demand for enclosed personal mobility ...
The alewife, a type of river herring, wriggled against the current, a 10-inch streak that disappeared from view as it rounded a bend in t...
Black-legged ticks in forests of the Northeast and Midwest have a variety of options for the three blood meals they consume in their life...
Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
Nest caterpillars in your arms, and watch the days pass.
Anirudh Sharma was at a conference in India when he noticed black particles accumulating on his white shirt.
Media Lab researchers are turning a cranberry bog back into coastal wetland.
Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments
Light enables our visual perception. It is the most common medium for displaying digital information. Light regulates our circadian rhyth...
Virtual reality creates a new perspective in storytelling and engagement.
Doppelmarsh is a cross-reality sensor data browser built for experimenting with presence and multimodal sensory experiences. Built on evo...
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
How to engineer and disseminate powerful, low-cost design and fabrication technologies at a grassroots level.
How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectiv...