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Space Enabled

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

Looking beyond smart cities
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Algorithmic Inheritance: Surname Bias in AI Decisions Reinforces Intergenerational Inequality

Pat Pataranutaporn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USANattavudh Powdthavee, Nanyang Technological Universi…
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Affective Computing

Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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Heat exposure, cloudy water, and bad air: The data gap of toxic prisons

A growing body of academic work has established that prisons expose incarcerated people to a long list of severe environmental hazards.
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Black Forest

Black Forest is a participatory public artwork collecting the names and stories of Black lives lost to COVID-19 in the U.S. and planting tr…
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (AttentivU - P-POP)

​The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
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A data designer driven to collaborate with communities

Media Lab alum + MIT DUSP Prof Catherine D’Ignazio thinks carefully about how we acquire and display data—and why we lack it for many things
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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Satellite Data for Environmental Justice

Over the last few decades, numerous scholars have documented the fact that in general, people of color and other socio-economically margina…
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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art
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Freedom Radio

Freedom Radio (in development) is an ongoing participatory artwork collecting multilingual thoughts and expressions of freedom across natio…
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A Counting

A Counting is an ongoing series of software-generated live-streamed sound and video works composed of an evolving neverending count fr…
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Anti-melody, Insurgent Rhythm: Ekene Ijeoma’s “Deconstructed Anthems: Massachusetts”

Read more about the premiere of “Deconstructed Anthems: Massachusetts” in the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts
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Why AI should move slow and fix things

Media Lab alum, Dr.Joy Buolamwini spoke to IEEE Spectrum about her work and her recent book, Unmasking AI.
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Space Sustainability Rating

The Space Sustainability RatingThe Space Sustainability Rating design team—comprised of the World Economic Forum, the European Space Agency…
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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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Candlewax Rockets: A Green Alternative for In-Space Propulsion

The Space Enabled Research Group is exploring the potential of using beeswax and candle wax as potential fuels for satellites in space. Bee…
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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-share…
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Is Access to Public Bike-share Networks Equitable? A Multiyear Spatial Analysis Across 5 U.S. Cities

Berke, A., Truitt, W., Larson, K. (2023). Is access to public bike-share networks equitable? A multiyear spatial analysis across 5 U.S. Cities. Journal of Transport Geography, Volume 114, 2024, 103759, ISSN 0966-6923. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103759.
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Design Justice Project at MIT

​We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
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Space Fabrics: resilient electronic textiles for distributed sensing in low Earth orbit

Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. S…
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Lunar Open Architecture

Building an open, shared, and collaborative future of lunar exploration.Explore the Lunar Open Architecture (LOA) at loa.mit.edu. …
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Angela Davis: “We need to renew our commitments to struggle against racism”

Jaleesa Trapp was the graduate student speaker at MIT's 49th annual Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Ekene Ijeoma has removed all bad design from his life (except for streets)

Professor Ekene Ijeoma talks to Curbed about art, design, and how he uses technology to speak to social and political issues.
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Dr. Joy Buolamwini featured on Last Week Tonight

The segment highlighted Dr. Buolamwini's work on bias in AI.
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Technical Flaws of Pretrial Risk Assessments Raise Grave Concerns

By Chelsea Barabas, Karthik Dinakar, and Colin DoyleTwenty-seven prominent  researchers from MIT,  Harvard, Princeton, NYU, …
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Center for Civic Media
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Actionable Auditing: Coordinated bias disclosure study

Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the impac…
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Gender Shades

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is a…
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"An Ethics, Equity, and Justice Audit and Reimagination of Engineering Education" receives seed funding from MIT IDSS and SSRC program

The IDSS/SSRC Combatting Systemic Racism Seed Fund Program supports innovative, early-stage cross-disciplinary research projects.
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Vespers III

Vespers is a collection of masks exploring what it means to design (with) life. From the relic of the death mask to a contemporary living d…
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Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on building equity and fairness into climate solutions

Faculty leaders discuss the opportunities and obstacles in developing, scaling, and implementing their work rapidly.
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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.
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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.
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Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
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Black women, AI, and overcoming historical patterns of abuse

Danielle Wood, Katlyn Turner, and Catherine D'Ignazio talk about The Abuse and Misogynoir Playbook.
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Art is a bridge ‘between facts and feelings’ for MIT’s Ekene Ijeoma

Cate McQuaid talks to Ekene Ijeoma about his work, including the Black Mobility and Safety Seminar
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Why Ekene Ijeoma advocates to design for the citizen, not just the consumer

Ekene Ijeoma, head of the Poetic Justice research group, talks to Frame about his work.
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STEM Week event encourages students to see themselves in science and technology careers

MIT hosts kickoff event of Massachusetts STEM Week — a statewide virtual celebration of K-12 education.
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Media Lab Research Takes Flight

Space research, led by a diverse team of women scientists, will be presented at this year's AIAA Ascend Conference.
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Americans speak more than 1,300 languages. This artist wants to capture them all

People speak as many as 800 languages in New York alone. With A Counting, Ekene Ijeoma aims to represent every single one.
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Algorithmic Justice League

www.ajl.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. This for…
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Episode 80: Bias, Algorithms, and Criminal Justice

Chelsea Barabas shares her thoughts on these topics in an episode of the Philosophical Disquisitions podcast.
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Episode 89: Chelsea Barabas

Joshua B. Hoe interviews Chelsea Barabas of MIT about criminal justice monitoring, surveillance, and algorithms
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This audio portrait of the 2020 census asks: Whose voices really count?

Poetic Justice head Ekene Ijeoma talks to NPR about his work, from Deconstructed Anthems to A Counting.
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Using space technology to advance justice on Earth with Danielle Wood, director of the Space Enabled research group at MIT

Listen to Danielle Wood speak in a new episode of the Stories of Transformation podcast.
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Danielle Wood quoted in Space News: How the space sector is responding to the killing of George Floyd

If the space industry wants to become more diverse, it must come to terms with how racially motivated decisions shape the country, Wood said
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AI researchers say scientific publishers help perpetuate racist algorithms

“This is why we keep seeing race science emerging time and again," writes Chelsea Barabas. "It’s because publishers publish it."
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Black engineers see both pride and exclusion in the return of human spaceflight

Like too many science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, the aerospace sector in the US is populated mainly by white people.
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Personal Food Computer

The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems to…
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Humanizing AI in Law (HAL)

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The  Humanizing …
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Joy Buolamwini and Amanda Nguyen chosen for TIME 100 Next 2019

Congratulations to Joy Buolamwini and Amanda Nguyen for being recognized in the "Advocates" category.
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Artificial intelligence can be biased. Here’s what you should know.

Joy Buolamwini talks to Frontline about bias in AI, and what can be done about it.
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AI: More than Human exhibition challenges our preconceptions

An exhibition at the Barbican in London features work from OpenAg, the Mediated Matter group, Joy Buolamwini, and more.
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Algorithm using racist drug war data to determine Missourians’ freedom

Pretrial risk assessments draw from “deeply flawed data" generated from arrest and conviction records, say researchers.
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Accessibility of the microgravity research ecosystem

For decades, the International Space Station (ISS) has operated as a bastion of international cooperation and a unique testbed for microgra…
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Fortune's 40 Under 40

Joy Buolamwini has been selected as one of Fortune Magazine’s “40 Under 40.”
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Face recognition researcher fights Amazon over biased AI

Joy Buolamwini talks to the AP about her work on algorithmic bias.
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On recent research auditing commercial facial analysis technology

An open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.
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AI experts question Amazon’s facial-recognition technology

More than three dozen AI researchers have signed an open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.