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Virtual reality can help realize mediated social experiences where we interact as richly with those around the world as we do with those ...
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement and personal development
Careers with STEM caught up with Mitch Resnick, the inventor of Scratch, in a wide-ranging Q&A.
ML Learning
Looking beyond smart cities
The Lemann Creative Learning Program is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the Lemann Foundation to foster creative learning i...
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Advancing Wellbeing
CE 2.0
Code Next : Cultural Resonation
Open Ocean
MIT Libraries and MIT Media Lab collaborate on Public Library Innovation Exchange
Our new cohort is the most diverse yet—bringing together graduate students from eight Media Lab research groups.
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Scratch BlockArt is an experimental visualization tool designed to let children discover their own computational patterns on Scratch. Exi...
Today's students have grown up in a world of rapidly evolving technology, and they are natural-born experimenters, programmers, and tinke...
Scratch Memories is a web-based visualization tool that empowers children to celebrate and reflect on their creative journey with Scratch...
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
Teen Summit is a biennial week-long Youth Leadership event that brings Clubhouse youth together from each of the 100 Clubhouses internati...
ScratchBit is an effort to enable children to create more seamlessly in both the physical and digital world by creating a dedicated physi...
The Media Lab is thrilled to announce our inaugural cohort of Learning Innovation fellows for the 2016–2017 academic year.
Welcoming three LEGO Papert Fellows and six Learning Innovation Fellows to our new cohort
Transforming data into knowledge
Our social networks influence our sense of what's possible: we can't aspire to be cancer researchers, activists, or artificial intelligen...
Creating technology for social change
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.
Castelló Ferrer E. et al. (2019) Personal Food Computer: A New Device for Controlled-Environment Agriculture. In: Arai K., Bhatia R., Kapoor S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018. FTC 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 881. Springer, Cham
Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and crea...
Bricoleur allows makers of all ages to explore the creative possibilities of video and audio as programmable media on mobile devices. Usi...
A design project done in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and the Laboratorio para la Ciudad (Laboratory for the City), Mexico City's...
Mathematical experiences are intrinsic to our everyday lives, yet mathematics education is mostly confined to textbooks. Seymour Papert u...
Scratch Day (day.scratch.mit.edu) is a network of face-to-face local gatherings, on the same day in all parts of the world, where people ...
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
Prior research with preschool children has established that book reading, especially when children are encouraged to actively process the...
Creating long-term interpersonal interaction and shared experiences with social robots Many of our current projects explore the use ...
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
HyperCubes is an augmented reality platform to help children understand computational concepts drawn from their physical surroundings, fr...
How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
APOPS was presented at the Connected Learning Summit at the MIT Media Lab in Aug 2018. The slides from that presentation can be found below.
NeverMind is an interface and application designed to support human memory. We combine the memory palace memorization method with augment...
Mina Khan, Fernando Trujano, Pattie Maes, "Mathland: Constructionist Mathematical Learning in the Real World Using Immersive Mixed Reality" International Conference on Immersive Learning
We learn best when we are pursuing our passion and working with others in a project-based environment with a playful approach.
Learning Creative Learning is an online course and community of educators, designers, technologists, and tinkerers exploring creative lea...
MIT designers explain their philosophy in a new book, “Resonant Games.”
Thesis: Shruti Dhariwal. SCRATCH ♥ MEMORIES: Visualizations that empower children to celebrate and reflect on their creative trajectories. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. September 2018.
The Intertidal Experimentation Workshop will take place September 29 and 30 (9am to 2pm) at the MIT Media Lab, open to students ages 8-14...
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the US and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang...
Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering
Children are using voice-activated technology at far younger ages than other devices, but some parents worry they’re picking up rude habits
Parental involvement is very important for guiding children’s interactions with smart technologies, says Stefania Druga.
Lifelong Kindergarten student Jaleesa Trapp shares her experience with the Clubhouse Network Teen Summit.
As more powerful and spatially aware Augmented Reality devices become available, we can leverage the user’s context to embed reality with...
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Johnson, K.T., Ferguson, C.S., Picard, R.W., "Multi-SPRING: Facilitating Social Interaction through a Customizable, Multimodal Learning Platform," International Society for Autism Research (INSAR), Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 2018.
Johnson, K.T. and Picard, R.W. "Customizable, Interactive Toy Platform to Enable Motivation-Driven Cognitive and Physical Development in Children Diagnosed with Autism or Developmental Disorders," International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), Baltimore, Maryland, May 2016.
Congratulations to Shruti Dhariwal on receiving the Best Short Paper Award at the 2018 Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference.
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.The MIT Media Lab's City Science research group, the University of Andorra, and nation...