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Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and crea...
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically in...
Two of the most important traits of environmental hazards today are their invisibility and the fact that they are experienced by communit...
Open Ocean
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Looking beyond smart cities
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
Space Exploration Initiative
Today's students have grown up in a world of rapidly evolving technology, and they are natural-born experimenters, programmers, and tinke...
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
Anirudh Sharma was at a conference in India when he noticed black particles accumulating on his white shirt.
ArtBoat is a tool for communities to make collaborative light paintings in public spaces and reimagine the future of their cities. ...
Designing for, with, and by nature
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Māori have a long and deep connection to their island and ocean ecosystem. The Māori concept of Rahui focuses on traditional methods...
Descending into the dark sea is like exploring deep space.
More ocean data has been collected in the last two years than in all previous years combined, and we are on a path to continue to break t...
EEEeb Spring 2019: Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this lin...
We now have more challenging choices to make than simply whether to be vegan, pescatarian or carnivore, thanks to technology.
The 2017 and 2018 fires in California were the air quality equivalent of the Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Global climate change is projected to change our planet this century and beyond.
Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments
Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...
The deep sea is the common heritage of all of humankind and we must all share in the responsibility to be good stewards of it.
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...
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.
Tree is a virtual experience that transforms you into a rainforest tree. With your arms as branches and body as the trunk, you experience...
Climate change presents a grave threat to overall human well-being, including mental health.
Add deadly car crashes and food safety risks — and the officials overseeing them — to the list of things affected by climate change.
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...
If we are unable to adapt to climate change, it may amplify the marginal gap between citizen need and government assistance.
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehic...
The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...
Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Media Lab's Space Enabled research group, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute A...
Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...
The Safecast has revolutionized citizen science.
SCHOOL, ENERGY AWARENESSUsing TerMITes in the Santa Coloma School in Andorra we want to help students understand the relation between the...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Media Lab researchers are turning a cranberry bog back into coastal wetland.
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...
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.