• Search Search
  • User Login
  • Nav Nav
Search
  • News + Updates
  • Research
  • About
  • Graduate Program
  • People
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Member Portal
We are an interdisciplinary research lab working to invent the future of
  • health

  • art

  • human-machine interaction

  • learning

  • artificial intelligence

  • robotics

  • architecture

  • design

  • technology

  • consumer electronics

  • kids

  • music

  • wearable computing

  • networks

  • politics

  • bioengineering

  • entertainment

  • cognition

  • economy

  • human-computer interaction

  • data

  • machine learning

  • history

  • archives

  • social science

  • storytelling

  • sensors

  • interfaces

  • wellbeing

  • space

  • environment

  • covid19

  • computer science

  • developing countries

  • prosthetics

  • engineering

  • privacy

  • social robotics

  • ethics

  • civic technology

  • social media

  • civic media

  • imaging

  • public health

  • communications

  • synthetic biology

  • urban planning

  • augmented reality

  • neurobiology

  • biology

  • affective computing

  • virtual reality

  • computer vision

  • transportation

  • community

  • industry

  • energy

  • biomechanics

  • data visualization

  • social change

  • food

  • alumni

  • government

  • biotechnology

  • zero gravity

  • ocean

  • 3d printing

  • creativity

  • racial justice

  • medicine

  • agriculture

  • blockchain

  • genetics

  • manufacturing

  • data science

  • gaming

  • prosthetic design

  • women

  • behavioral science

  • construction

  • fashion

  • materials

  • social networks

  • banking and finance

  • open source

  • systems

  • cryptocurrency

  • security

  • crowdsourcing

  • climate change

  • diversity

  • collective intelligence

  • fabrication

  • makers

  • wiesner

  • language learning

  • cognitive science

  • internet of things

  • bionics

  • extended intelligence

  • performance

  • neural interfacing and control

  • perception

  • human augmentation

  • startup

  • interactive

  • autonomous vehicles

  • natural language processing

  • ecology

  • civic action

  • marginalized communities

  • nonverbal behavior

  • mapping

  • physiology

  • visualization

  • clinical science

  • physics

  • holography

  • long-term interaction

  • gesture interface

  • microfabrication

  • mechanical engineering

  • networking

  • trust

  • point of care

  • orthotic design

  • water

  • sports and fitness

  • autism research

  • primary healthcare

  • electrical engineering

  • voice

  • microbiology

  • hacking

  • member company

  • pharmaceuticals

  • rfid

  • nanoscience

  • clinical trials

  • mechatronics

  • trade

  • academia

  • member event

  • open access

  • gender studies

  • soft-tissue biomechanics

  • code

  • chemistry

  • real estate

  • randomized experiment

  • publishing

  • biomedical imaging

  • gis

  • event

  • exhibit

  • cartography

  • metamaterials

  • installation

  • Groups
  • Projects
  • Publications
  • Centers
  • Initiatives
More Close
Research
Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +49 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#robotics #design #architecture +29 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

With(in)

With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a...

in City Science
Margaret Church · Gabriela Bila Advincula +6 more
#design #architecture #art +5 more
Research
Health 0.0

Health 0.0

#artificial intelligence #bioengineering #communications +23 more
Article Research

What it means to be counted: MIT art project aims to capture Ogden’s vocal diversity

“A Counting,” an art project from the Poetic Justice group, invites people to call in and count to 100 in their native language.

via KUER public radio · March 28, 2022
in Poetic Justice
#art #data #creativity +1 more
Research
City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +66 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +26 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

RealTalk for Change Boston

A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s C...

in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Sinclair Target · Wonjune Kang +14 more
#artificial intelligence #civic media #civic technology +5 more
Article Research

Some Bostonians feel largely unheard. With MIT’s ‘Real Talk’ portal now public, here’s a chance to really listen

A database of community conversations in various Boston neighborhoods launches publicly on Monday.

via The Boston Globe · Oct. 25, 2021
in Media Lab Spinoffs · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#artificial intelligence #civic media #civic technology +5 more
Article Research

MIT’s ‘Real Talk’ campaign gives likely voters a voice in Boston’s race for mayor

Researchers enlist grassroots activists to engage “invisible” residents about the future of the city.

via The Boston Globe · Aug. 24, 2021
in MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#civic media #civic technology #politics +2 more
Research
MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Center for Constructive Communication

#social networks #human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence +25 more
Article Research

Designing the change: Black designers on equity and representation in the industry

Chelsi Cocking shares her thoughts on how the design industry can better foster, support, and grow design talent in the Black community.

via Fortune Magazine · Feb. 15, 2022
in Future Sketches
#design #ethics #social change +3 more
Article Research

Eddie Glaude Jr.: “We must run toward our fears”

Annual MLK celebration at MIT features call to confront America’s history of racism in order to move forward.

via MIT News · Feb. 15, 2022
in Space Enabled
#ethics #community #social change +3 more
Post Research

MAS.S64. Real-world Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Genome Editing Technologies

MAS.S64 Real-world Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Genome Editing Technologies - Fall 2020 Online CourseWhen: Tuesdays, 3-...

Aug. 24, 2020
in Health 0.0
#artificial intelligence #genetics #social science +4 more
Article Research

The data-driven future of storytelling: MIT’s Deb Roy on the message and the medium

Deb Roy talks to McKinsey about the many ways audience, voice, and medium combine to create compelling stories.

via McKinsey & Company · Jan. 13, 2022
in MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #communications +5 more
Project Research

Regional Technology Co-Creation and Transfer Ecosystems in Latin America

🚨Application to the 2022 Co-Design Experience here bit.ly/codesign2022 🚨Historically, the term technology transfer has been ass...

in Space Enabled
Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar · Danielle Wood
#design #civic technology #technology +1 more
Project Research

The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financ...

in City Science
Leticia Izquierdo Garcia · Kent Larson +5 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +18 more
Archived
Research
Open Ocean

Open Ocean

#robotics #virtual reality #art +32 more
Article Research

This Toronto-based nonprofit provides creative education to over 2,000 children in rural India

Co-founded by alum Srishti Sethi, Unstructured Studio provides free and low-cost creative learning opportunities to students in India.

via SocialStory · Aug. 31, 2021
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#kids #learning #creativity +2 more
Publication Research

With(in): Three women, three informal settlements, and the rituals of the meal as a microcosm of urban life

Advincula, Larson 2021. With(in): Three women, three informal settlements, and the rituals of the meal as a microcosm of urban life.

in City Science
#architecture #art #developing countries +1 more
Gallery Research

With(in)_book

With(in) book. 

by Gabriela Bila Advincula · May 21, 2021
in City Science
#architecture #art #developing countries +2 more
Gallery Research

With(in)_homes

Gihan, Eva, and MamaG's homes.

by Gabriela Bila Advincula · May 20, 2021
in City Science
#architecture #developing countries #marginalized communities
Gallery Research

With(in)_Port_Harcourt_Eket

by Gabriela Bila Advincula · May 20, 2020
in City Science
#food #storytelling #marginalized communities
Article Research

Gihan

Gihan moved to Ezbet Khairallah not long ago. Escaping from an abusive marriage, she bravely left home in upper Egypt with her three kids...

May 19, 2021
in City Science
#architecture #art #developing countries +1 more
Gallery Research

With(in) - Immersive Installation

With(in)captured a fragment of Eva, Gihan, MamaG and their communities’ stories. The nature of this work poses challenges for retelling t...

by Gabriela Bila Advincula · May 19, 2021
in City Science
#architecture #art #developing countries +1 more
Gallery Research

With(in)_Guadalajara

by Gabriela Bila Advincula · May 20, 2020
in City Science
#food #storytelling #marginalized communities
Project Research

Income, Race, Bikes

Is the placement of bike-share docks equitable?This interactive map explores the question visually.The map shows the addition of bike-sha...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Alex Berke
#design #civic technology #cartography +2 more
Article Research

Celtics star Jaylen Brown wants to fix American schools

The basketball player discusses his new MIT Media Lab fellowship, and how he plans to use the platform to reform education.

via Fast Company · July 8, 2019
in Director's Fellows Program
#learning #sports and fitness #marginalized communities
Project Research

LinkedOut: Codesigning societal reentry with returning citizens

LinkedOut aims to define and build solutions to facilitate societal reentry for formerly incarcerated individuals.In collaboration with t...

in Civic Media
Victoria Palacin · Ethan Zuckerman +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #civic technology +4 more

  • News + Updates
  • Research
  • About
  • Graduate Program
  • People
  • Events
  • Videos
  • Member Portal

More ways to explore

  • Videos
  • Publications
  • Job Opportunities
  • Contact

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
School of Architecture + Planning

Accessibility
Donate to the Lab