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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 +16 more
Project Research

Freedom Radio

A hotline where the public can respond to prompts about freedom and listen to a live remix of those responses alongside samples from ...

in Poetic Justice
Nina Lutz · Justin Blinder
#art #natural language processing #racial justice +1 more
Project Research

A Counting

A voice portrait of major US cities. We invite you to: experience the NYC edition by watching here or listening at 917-905...

in Poetic Justice
Nina Lutz · Toby Holtzman +2 more
#design #art #data +3 more
Project Research

Silk Pavilion II

What are radically sustainable methods for knitting, making and building in the age of the Anthropocene? How can humankind and members of...

in Mediated Matter
Christoph Bader · Sunanda Sharma +5 more
#design #architecture #art +5 more
Project Research

Aguahoja

Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...

in Mediated Matter
Jorge Duro-Royo · Joshua Van Zak +11 more
#design #architecture #art +7 more
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
Project Research

Dormio: Interfacing with Dreams

InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...

in Civic Media · Fluid Interfaces · Personal Robots
Adam Haar Horowitz · Ishaan Grover +4 more
#human-computer interaction #art #artificial intelligence +15 more
Project Research

[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...

in City Science
Alex Berke · Kent Larson +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +16 more
Project Research

Let's Chance: Playful Probabilistic Programming for Children

Probabilistic thinking has been one of the most powerful ideas in the history of science, and it is rapidly gaining even more relevance a...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Manuj Dhariwal · Shruti Dhariwal
#human-computer interaction #art #interfaces +2 more
Project Research

Bubble Talk: Translating the presence of modern digital chat into fleeting bubbles

In this project the ephemeral and intangible aspects of human communication are represented by a soap-bubble. The shapeless, intangi...

in Tangible Media
Kyung Yun Choi
#design #art #fabrication
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
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

Scratch

Scratch is the world's most popular coding community for kids. Millions of kids around the world are using Scratch to program their ...

in Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick · Natalie Rusk +30 more
#robotics #design #art +14 more
Project Research

SeeBoat (Thermal Fishing Bob): In-place environmental data visualization

Two of the most important traits of environmental hazards today are their invisibility and the fact that they are experienced by communit...

in Object-Based Media
Laura Perovich
#art #environment #sensors
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
Project Research

Totems

Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level...

in Mediated Matter
Sunanda Sharma · Christoph Bader +5 more
#design #architecture #art +6 more
Project Research

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...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman · Christoph Bader +4 more
#design #art #artificial intelligence +5 more
Project Research

Vespers II

Novel technologies for additive manufacturing are enabling design and production at nature’s scale. We can seamlessly vary the physical p...

in Mediated Matter
Christoph Bader · Rachel Smith +4 more
#design #art #3d printing +3 more
Project Research

Raycounting

Raycounting is a method for generating customized light-shading constructions by registering the intensity and orientation of light rays ...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman
#design #art #biology +2 more
Project Research

Monocoque

French for "single shell," Monocoque stands for a construction technique that supports structural load using an object's external skin. C...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman
#design #art #biology +2 more
Project Research

Glass II

Optically transparent and structurally sound, glass has played a significant role in the evolution of product and architectural design ac...

in Mediated Matter
Chikara Inamura · Giorgia Franchin +7 more
#design #architecture #art +6 more
Project Research

Glass I

Ancient yet modern, enclosing yet invisible, glass was first created in Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt 4,500 years ago. Precise recipes f...

in Mediated Matter
John Klein · Markus Kayser +4 more
#design #art #biology +2 more
Project Research

Beast

Beast is an organic-like entity created synthetically by the incorporation of physical parameters into digital form-generation protocols....

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman
#design #art #biology +2 more
Project Research

Circuit Stickers

Circuit Stickers is a toolkit for crafting electronics using flexible and sticky electronic pieces. These stickers are created by printin...

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Jie Qi +2 more
#art #learning #storytelling +1 more
Project Research

Paper Dreams

Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily ...

in Fluid Interfaces
Guillermo Bernal
#design #art #artificial intelligence +8 more
Project Research

Space/Craft

Space/Craft explores sculpting in zero gravity. Making artistic works by hand is a fundamentally human act, but how will it transfor...

in Space Exploration Initiative · Civic Media
Alexis Hope · Tim Savas
#art #space #technology +1 more
Project Research

Orbit Weaver Suit

​​​​​​​​​The Orbit Weaver Suit for zero gravity was designed by Media Lab Director's Fellow Andrea Lauer in collaboration with ...

in Space Exploration Initiative · Director's Fellows
Andrea Lauer · Xin Liu
#design #art #fashion +3 more
Project Research

Grain Prism

The Grain Prism is a hybrid musical instrument that combines granular synthesis and live audio recordings. Presented in a capacitive touc...

in City Science
Don Derek Haddad · Gabriela Bila Advincula
#design #art #music +1 more
Project Research

Schoenberg in Hollywood: A new opera by Tod Machover

“Can a man know the truth and tell it to the greatest number and still be misunderstood? Can one man be of the many and still be known?” ...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover
#art #music #politics +1 more
Project Research

The Telemetron

Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and durin...

in Opera of the Future · Space Exploration Initiative
Nicole L'Huillier · Sands Fish +1 more
#design #art #music +3 more
Project Research

Gemini

Gemini—an acoustical “twin chaise"—spans multiple scales of the human existence extending from the warmth of the womb to the stretches ...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman
#design #architecture #art +3 more
Project Research

Elowan: A plant-robot hybrid

Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...

in Fluid Interfaces
Harpreet Sareen · Pattie Maes
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +7 more
Project Research

Personalized Animated Movies

Storytelling is a fundamental way in which human beings understand the world. Imagine watching a movie telling the story of your life, ho...

in Affective Computing
Fengjiao Peng · Rosalind W. Picard
#art #human-machine interaction #behavioral science +1 more
Project Research

Maiden Flight

Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductiv...

in Mediated Matter · Space Exploration Initiative
Felix Kraemer · Ri Ren +2 more
#robotics #design #agriculture +9 more
Project Research

Telepresent Drawings in Space

This project asks, how can we transmit experiences across space and time? The launching point of the project is to create a drawing that ...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Anne Liu
#agriculture #architecture #art +4 more
Project Research

City Symphonies: Massive musical collaboration

The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaborat...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Akito Oshiro van Troyer +7 more
#design #art #artificial intelligence +5 more
Project Research

Spatial Flux: Body and architecture in space

Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new w...

in City Science · Space Exploration Initiative
Carson Smuts · Chrisoula Kapelonis
#design #architecture #art +4 more
Project Research

Orbit Weaver

Gravity anchors all existence on Earth.It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is every...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Xin Liu
#design #agriculture #architecture +8 more
Project Research

ArtBoat

​ArtBoat is a tool for communities to make collaborative light paintings in public spaces and reimagine the future of their cities. ...

in Object-Based Media
Laura Perovich
#art #environment #sensors +1 more
Project Research

Art Cube: the Ambulatory Art Exhibit

As we know from our ‘maker’ classes and workshops, different capabilities and approaches can yield remarkable projects. Let’s facilitate ...

in Civic Media
Cindy Bishop · Lorrie LeJeune
#art #interactive #community +2 more
Project Research

EmotionalBeasts

With advances in virtual reality (VR) and physiological sensing technology, even more immersive computer-mediated communication through l...

in Fluid Interfaces
Guillermo Bernal
#virtual reality #art #sensors +2 more
Project Research

Brainstorm: Anima Mundi

We'd like to introduce you to a very special neuroscience project that we are currently conducting in the setting of a traditional fine a...

in Sculpting Evolution
Jeantine Lunshof
#art #genetics #synthetic biology
Project Research

Philadelphia Voices

Philadelphia Voices is the latest in the series of City Symphonies projects that Tod Machover and the Opera of the Future group have...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover
#art #crowdsourcing #music +1 more
Project Research

A Flying Pantograph

We explore an art form where machines take on an essential role in the aesthetics and processes of the creation. Our main theme can be su...

in Fluid Interfaces
Pattie Maes · Sang-won Leigh +1 more
#art
Project Research

Rottlace

Rottlace is a family of masks designed for Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk. Inspired by Björk’s most recent album—Vulnicura—the Mediate...

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman · Christoph Bader +1 more
#design #art #manufacturing
Project Research

Gender Shades

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
#design #computer vision #art +16 more
Project Research

Smells for Space: Olfactory Timecapsule for Earthly Memories

Each new technology forces us to confront who we are as humans.  As technological innovations in deep space exploration keep advanci...

in Space Exploration Initiative
Anne Liu
#design #art #space +1 more
Project Research

DuoSkin

DuoSkin is a fabrication process that enables anyone to create customized functional devices that can be attached directly to the skin. U...

in Living Mobile
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao · Andres Calvo +1 more
#art #fashion #wearable computing +1 more
Project Research

Tranceflora—Amy's Glowing Silk

We collaborated with NIAS (National Institute of Agricultural Science) to genetically engineer silkworms to develop new kinds of silk for...

in Design Fiction
Sputniko!
#art #bioengineering #fashion +1 more
Project Research

Fensadense

Fensadense is a new work for 10-piece ensemble composed by Tod Machover, commissioned for the Lucerne Festival in summer 2015. The projec...

in Opera of the Future
Tod Machover · Benjamin Bloomberg +1 more
#design #art #music +1 more
Project Research

Boundaries Drawings

These wall drawings are generated by a series of predesigned instructions that dictate their form. The instructions give both constraint ...

in Social Computing
Sepandar Kamvar · Kimberly Smith
#art

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