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Research
Space Enabled

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

#design #agriculture #art +36 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Article Research

Visualizing the Future of Spaceship Earth (Prof. Dava Newman)

Prof Dava Newman fields listeners' questions about climate change and introduces EarthDNA, a platform for climate advocacy and action.

via Chalk Radio | MIT OpenCourseWare · March 3, 2021
in Director's Office
#environment #space #climate change
Research
Fluid Interfaces

Designing systems for cognitive enhancement

#robotics #design #virtual reality +59 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +56 more
Post Research

MIT Space Policy Compendium

Read the new MIT Space Policy Compendium led by Dava Newman with co-authors including Ariel Ekblaw and Danielle Wood.

March 1, 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative · Space Enabled
#environment #politics #space +2 more
Project Research

The Interplanetary Cookbook

Maggie Coblentz is developing “The Interplanetary Cookbook”—a collection of speculative recipes, tools for eating, and sensory experience...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #virtual reality #food +5 more
Article Research

What’s it like to design a meal that floats?

Taking a taste of the sensory research of Space Exploration Initiative’s Maggie Coblentz

via The Tech · Feb. 25, 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative
#design #virtual reality #food +3 more
Project Research

Tasting Menu in Zero G

 A multi-course tasting menu was flown on a zero gravity flight in August 2019.  Five specially crafted dishes were consum...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #virtual reality #food +3 more
Project Research

Space Sustainability Rating

​Special Announcement: Call for Letters of Intent to Operate the Space Sustainability RatingThe Consortium Designing the Space Sustainabi...

in Space Enabled
Danielle Wood · Minoo Rathnasabapathy
#environment #health #sensors +5 more
Research
Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

Digital Learning & Collaboration Studio

#agriculture #data #learning +6 more
Post Research

Neil Gaikwad chosen as a 2019 Facebook Fellow

Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.

Jan. 16, 2019
in Space Enabled
#agriculture #artificial intelligence #ecology +6 more
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Research
ML Learning

ML Learning

#design #virtual reality #cognition +22 more
Thesis Research

Earth Observation Technology Applied to Environmental Management: A Case Study in Benin

Ovienmhada, U (2020). Earth Observation Technology Applied to Environmental Management: A Case Study in Benin, Thesis for Master of Science in Media Arts & Sciences. MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Thesis, May 2020
in Space Enabled
#space
Research
Open Ocean

Open Ocean

#robotics #virtual reality #art +31 more
Article Research

3 Questions: Using fabric to “listen” to space dust

Fabric samples are headed to the ISS for resiliency testing; possible applications include cosmic dust detectors or spacesuit smart skins.

via MIT News · Nov. 25, 2020
in Responsive Environments
#sensors #space #materials +1 more
Project Research

SpaceSkin: Resilient electronic textiles for distributed sensing on protective fabrics 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....

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Juliana Cherston
#environment #health #sensors +7 more
Post Research

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.

Nov. 16, 2020
in Responsive Environments · Fluid Interfaces · Space Exploration Initiative +1 more
#environment #health #sensors +5 more
Project Research

Lunar Open Architecture

Building an open, shared, and collaborative future of lunar exploration.Explore the Lunar Open Architecture (LOA) at loa.mit.edu.&nb...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Mehak Sarang · Ariel Ekblaw
#architecture #environment #health +6 more
Project Research

Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (P-POP)

The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future...

in Fluid Interfaces
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#environment #health #sensors +6 more
Project Research

Space Health

The MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is pushing the boundaries of space exploration innovation across the Media Lab’s many heal...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Ariel Ekblaw
#space
Project Research

Earthrise | A 50 Year Contemplation

In December of 1968, the first human voyage to the moon catapulted the population of Earth into a new era of space exploration and self-r...

in Space Enabled
Rachael Petersen · Danielle Wood +1 more
#space
Project Research

ZG Stardust

How might zero gravity space affect silk spinning, and what benefits might such material properties provide for digital fabrication and a...

in Mediated Matter · Space Exploration Initiative
Neri Oxman · Felix Kraemer +2 more
#space #zero gravity
Project Research

Climate CubeSat Co-Building Outreach Program (C3)

Climate CubeSat Co-Building (C3) The Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is driven by an effort to democratize the futu...

in ML Learning · Space Exploration Initiative
Ariel Ekblaw · Katherine McConachie +2 more
#space
Project Research

Candlewax Rockets: A Green Alternative for In-Space Propulsion

Wax-based hybrid rocket propellants, including paraffin (common candlewax) and beeswax show promise as high-performing hybrid rocket prop...

in Space Enabled
Javier Stober
#environment #health #sensors +5 more
Post Research

Team Space Enabled awarded NSF Grant to Study Inclusion within Emerging Innovation Practices in Boston and Detroit

Innovation dynamics of emerging co-creation practices: What are the impacts on inclusion?

Aug. 26, 2020
in Space Enabled
#space
Project Research

Microgravity Research Flights with the Space Exploration Intiative

The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 14-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, s...

in Space Exploration Initiative
#space #zero gravity
Project Research

The EBIFA robot (Everything Beautiful Is Far Away)

EBIFA (Everything Beautiful Is Far Away) is a crystalline robotic device that carried a tooth to outer space. EBIFA's form and ...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Gershon Dublon · Xin Liu
#robotics #architecture #art +6 more
Research
Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation

#robotics #design #virtual reality +39 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Floral Cosmonauts: Self-assembling silver dendrite networks in microgravity

Biological neuronal networks are highly complex and interconnected with superior information processing capabilities. Such networks have ...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Harpreet Sareen
#design #manufacturing #space +3 more
Project Research

Lunar Sensor Net

We are leveraging current Wireless Sensor Network technology to develop an easily deployable, and inexpensive wireless sensor (LunarWSN) ...

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Fangzheng Liu
#robotics #design #environment +3 more
Article Research

Mars on Earth: What can Victorian-era polar exploration teach us about space travel?

Tom Standage and Seth Stevenson talk to a range of experts about what Victorian-era polar exploration can teach us about space travel.

via The Secret History of the Future · July 31, 2019
in Space Enabled
#space #history
Research
Responsive Environments

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +50 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature

#robotics #design #architecture +33 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, ra...

in ML Learning · Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
Katherine McConachie · Michelle Hlubinka +5 more
#data #learning #makers +2 more
Archived
Research
Civic Media

Creating technology for social change

#robotics #design #social networks +52 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Project Research

TESSERAE: Self-Assembling Space Architecture

Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...

Ariel Ekblaw
#robotics #design #agriculture +11 more
Article Research

Speculative machines produce existential wonder

A collaboration between CAST visiting artist Thom Kubli, Hiroshi Ishii, and members of the Tangible Media group.

via MIT News · March 12, 2020
in Tangible Media
#design #art #3d printing +1 more
Article Research

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.

via Stories of Transformation Podcast · July 21, 2020
in Space Enabled
#space #technology #racial justice
Article Research

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

via Space News Magazine · July 15, 2020
in Space Enabled
#space #racial justice
Article Research

Danielle Wood quoted in Nature News article on UAE Space Program

The United Arab Emirates’ Hope orbiter is the Arab world’s first interplanetary spacecraft — and has jump-started science in the country.

via Nature · July 8, 2020
in Space Enabled
#space #technology
Article Research

Orbiting, the new floating installation on the history of humanity

Artists and scientists from MIT united to create "Orbiting," an aerial archive of objects that trace the history of humanity.

via Sky Arte · April 23, 2020
in Tangible Media
#design #art #3d printing +1 more
Project Research

The Telemetron Orchestra

When contemplating the future of life in space, we dream not only of rockets and off-world societies, but also of art, of leisure, and fr...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Thomas Sanchez Lengeling · Nicole L'Huillier +1 more
#design #music #interfaces +3 more
Project Research

Space Webs as Infrastructure for distributed sensor networks and other infrastructure on low gravity bodies

We study textiles and nets as a base form for growing infrastructure and allowing reconfigurable sensing on low gravity bodies (for insta...

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Juliana Cherston · Paul Strohmeier
#design #art #sensors +2 more
Project Research

SpaceHuman

SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratiza...

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Valentina Sumini · Manuel Muccillo +2 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +6 more
Project Research

SpaceTouch

An astronaut's ability to leverage the sense of touch is substantially reduced when wearing a protective, pressurized spacesuit. We imagi...

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Juliana Cherston
#environment #sensors #space
Article Research

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.

via Quartz · June 10, 2020
in Space Enabled
#design #space #community +3 more
Archived
Project Research

Liquid resin fabrication in microgravity

The future of human life outside of Earth will heavily depend on the ability to fabricate and manufacture things. Yet fabrication in spac...

in Space Exploration Initiative · Tangible Media
Amos Golan
#manufacturing #space #zero gravity
Archived
Project Research

Interplanetary Gastronomy

Maggie Coblentz leads research and design on interplanetary gastronomy at the Space Exploration Initiative, where she is developing ...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #food #space +3 more
Article Research

MIT’s robotic tail could aid crew operations in space

Developed by a team of Media Lab researchers, SpaceHuman is a seahorse-inspired additive prosthetic for use in microgravity environments.

via Hackster.io · May 15, 2020
in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
#space #technology #zero gravity +1 more
Publication Research

SpaceHuman: A Soft Robotic Prosthetic for Space Exploration

Sumini, V., Muccillo, M., Milliken, J., Ekblaw, A. and Paradiso, J., 2020. SpaceHuman: A Soft Robotic Prosthetic For Space Exploration. [online] Dl.acm.org. Available at: <https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3334480.3383087> [Accessed: 11 May 2020]

Proceedings, April 2020
in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #design #space +1 more
Publication Research

Master Planning and Space Architecture for a Moon Village

Proceedings, Oct. 2019
in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
#design #architecture #construction +1 more
Project Research

Wanderers

The Wanderers were unveiled as part of the exhibition: ‘The Sixth Element: Exploring the Natural Beauty of 3D Printing' on display ...

in Mediated Matter
Christoph Bader · Dominik Kolb +1 more
#design #architecture #art +3 more
Project Research

Living Mushtari

How can we design relationships between the most primitive and the most sophisticated life forms? Can we design wearables embedded with ...

in Mediated Matter
Christoph Bader · Dominik Kolb +4 more
#design #architecture #art +3 more
Article Research

MIT professor Neri Oxman is as otherworldly as her creations

"We, as architects of the built environment, are entering an era where we’re designing for survival.”

via Interview Magazine · April 15, 2020
in Mediated Matter
#design #architecture #art +3 more
Article Research

Danielle Wood – Advancing Earth justice by way of space

"Space belongs to all countries—every country deserves equal opportunities to pursue scientific achievement for societal benefit."

via NASA Applied Sciences · April 1, 2020
in Space Enabled
#environment #space #technology
Post Research

Five MIT payloads deployed on ISS

A cohort of transdisciplinary researchers will study effects of sustained microgravity

March 25, 2020
in Space Exploration Initiative
#space #zero gravity
Post Research

Designing humanity’s future in space

The Space Exploration Initiative’s latest research flight explores work and play in zero gravity

Nov. 27, 2019
in Space Exploration Initiative
#space #technology #zero gravity
Post Research

Democratizing Access to Space

When we say we’re “democratizing access to space exploration,” what do we mean?

May 30, 2019
in Space Exploration Initiative
#design #art #space +1 more
Post Research

TESSERAE: ISS 30 day mission

On an upcoming SpaceX launch (CRS-20), we are launching seven TESSERAE v3 hardware tiles to the International Space Station.

Feb. 27, 2020
in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
#sensors #space #engineering
Research
Beyond the Cradle

Beyond the Cradle

#robotics #design #architecture +10 more
Article Research

The artist-engineer in VR

At Sundance New Frontiers 2020, Xin Liu and Qinya (Jenny) Guo debuted Living Distance, a VR piece about the journey of Liu’s wisdom tooth.

via Immerse · March 2, 2020
in Space Exploration Initiative
#virtual reality #art #space +1 more
Post Research

Space Miso: ISS Mission 2020

New flavors may evolve as earth foods migrate to outer space. A collaboration between Maggie Coblentz at the MIT Media Lab and Joshua Eva...

Feb. 27, 2020
in Space Exploration Initiative
#food #space #zero gravity
Project Research

Radiofungi: Biological Pigments for Radioprotection

A major concern for manned missions is space radiation. Ionizing radiation is known to pose both acute and chronic risks to many organism...

in Mediated Matter · Space Exploration Initiative
Sunanda Sharma · Nicolas Hogan +2 more
#space #biology #zero gravity
Archived
Project Research

Fermentation in Space

Fermentation in Space: From the Microbiome to the Envirome This research highlights the many opportunities to bring our rich culture...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#food #space #zero gravity
Archived
Article Research

Algae caviar, anyone? What we'll eat on the journey to Mars

Humans are headed for the cosmos, and we’re taking our appetites with us. What will fill the void when we leave Earth behind?

via Wired · Feb. 11, 2020
in Space Exploration Initiative
#food #space #technology
Post Research

Space Situational Awareness: Key issues in an evolving landscape | Statement of Dr. Danielle Wood

Danielle Wood's official testimony from the congressional hearing for the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.

Feb. 11, 2020
in Space Enabled
#environment #space #technology
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