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Living Knitwork Pavilion

​2023 Burning Man Arts"Once upon a time, in the heart of the Black Rock City desert, a knitted shade structure seamlessly melded ancient an…
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Axol

A distributed sensing system for managing water resources in informal communities.
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▓▒░ TeleAbsence

People die twice.First, when they die.Then when they are forgotten.Rokusuke Ei (1933-2016)
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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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Mice Against Ticks - Preventing tick-borne disease by permanently immunizing mice

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically infe…
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How to Grow (Almost) Anything - A New Model for Global Synthetic Biology Education

A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) tools hold the…
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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 Cen…
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The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
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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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Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
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Research resiliency through lean labs

Academic research groups, especially the ones directed by new junior faculty, are under pressure to produce high-quality work timely while …
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[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, …
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Corporate surveillance of the commons + Amazon Ring

As of August 2020, Ring has active partnerships with over 1400 law enforcement agencies across the US. These partnerships allow law enforce…
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Mediated Atmosphere

The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work expe…
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DoppelLab: Experiencing multimodal sensor data

Homes and offices are being filled with sensor networks to answer specific queries and solve pre-determined problems, but no comprehensive …
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Jibo Social Robotic Research Platform

The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon the…
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Social Capital Accounting

To better understand and improve the quality of our lives, there has been a need for measuring non-economic capital such as social capital …
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Symphony for the Koreas

Symphony for the Koreas will be the latest installment of the celebrated City Symphony series. Over the next few years, Tod Machover and hi…