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Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
Resonance explores the relationship between mind and matter through an immersive contemplative installation. The work translates the brainw…
American cities face growing tension among stakeholders whose priorities often conflict. Residents seek affordable housing and livable neig…
How can urban residents reach a shared vision of the future?Many excellent and potentially transformative ideas fail to be deployed in citi…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsFounded a decade ago, the City Science Network conn…
Urban areas are responsible for 70% of global GHG emission, and must play a central role in solutions to global warming. Using Kendall Squa…
How can we serve 2.5 billion people without access to centralized infrastructure for basic services?By 2050, more than 2.5 billion people a…
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Space JellyfishOrbital Data Center for Planetary SustainabilitySpace Jellyfish is an orbital data center whose form emerges from energy har…
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
DNA Canvas is a new platform for assembling nanoscale components using DNA as a programmable interface. By bridging top-down nanofabricatio…
Designing Walkable CommunitiesA tangible interface for exploring how the distribution of urban amenities shapes walkability, mobility, and …
Audio-visual data set containing around 21.6 hours of parent-child interaction during story reading.The DAMI-P2C dataset consists of audio-…
Have you ever wondered what a friend would do if she was in your decision-making situation? Or thought about where a family membe…
What does it take to generate reliable data in places where official records do not exist?Collecting Community-Based Data in Informal Urban…
Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by show…
Evolving Cultural Heritage through Collaborative Choreography with Generative Virtual CharactersThis project aims to develop new methods fo…
Think about how a delayed shipment, a cancelled flight, or a glitchy app can disrupt your week. Now scale that up: a virus like COVID-19 co…
The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing h…
Explore 563 trillion possible 7×7 grids on an infinite canvas, embedding MIT Media Lab's entire visual identity system.
We develop systems that support health and wellbeing, with a special focus on mental health. We design, study and apply technologies s…
Latent Lab reimagines how people interact with unstructured information by turning documents, images, and media into explorable semantic la…
Limb & Life is a collective of researchers dedicated to describing pressing challenges in rehabilitation services, especially in prosth…
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
Autonomous bicycles have recently been proposed as a new and more efficient approach to bicycle-sharing systems, but how do they compare fr…
Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…
Could we substitute cars by shared autonomous lightweight vehicles for food delivery? We have developed an agent-based simulation model tha…
In mobility-on-demand services, fleet sizes are usually dictated by rush-hour demand, leaving many vehicles idle during off-peak times. Bu…
Recent advances in clinical AI have enabled remarkable progress across many clinical domains. However, existing benchmarks and models are p…
Advanced Data Visualizations for Climate IntelligenceMarked by heightened awareness and global concern over the climate crisis, the MI…
As AI evolves beyond screen assistants and into dimensional applications, decentralization emerges as the critical factor for unlocking i…
We crowdsourced and published a first-of-its-kind open dataset that contains Amazon purchase histories, spanning 2018 to 2022, from more th…
As climate-related disasters become more frequent, the need for actionable climate intelligence has never been greater. Earth Observa…
A robust and resilient communication infrastructure is essential to the development of democratic processes and knowledge formation. Decent…
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…
We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of 𝑈2𝐵, a technology that enables scalable ad ultra-low power ocean IoT. At the…
How might we collect rich and complex data from community dialogues, analyze and make sense of that data? How might we design outputs …
Resilience Across Scales is a research theme that encompasses the work of a few Media Lab Principal Investigators and their research groups…
zkTax is a zero-knowledge tax disclosure system that allows individuals to make provable claims about select information in their tax retur…
My name is Raechel Walker. I'm a PhD student in the Personal Robots group. Here is a short description of my Data Activism Program:The Data…
The acquisition of training data is crucial for machine learning applications. Data markets can increase the supply of data, particularly i…
Our Oceans IoT technologies enable new applications in climate and ecological monitoring, aquaculture, energy, and robotic navigation. …
For details and recent updates visit: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/Nanoelectronics has the potential to enable radical too…
A massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets, tracing their provenance and composition from origin to creation.The race to train language mode…
Data-driven strategies to meet the Dual Energy-Climate ChallengeThe global community stands at a critical juncture, facing the dual energy-…
I have always been interested in the communities around coding.I love shader programming, I do it as a performance, but I have always felt …
The Community Dialogue Data Trust (CODIDT) is an interactive digital platform designed to empower participants in facilitated dialogues wit…
A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mobil…
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…
Urban mobility is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. In this context, stakeholders such as governments and mobility operators ne…
SleepStim is a framework for automatically recording sleep physiology and presenting sensory stimuli in sleep, using consumer smartph…
Urban mobility can often be categorized as a complex system—e.g., a nonlinear system composed of many components that interact with each …
Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land use, with the goal of promoting sustainable developm…
Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…
Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MIT Media Lab City Science group and the Andorra Innova…
The challenge of understanding pandemics, illustrated by the recent COVID-19 outbreak, has significantly impacted global health and economi…
One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques fro…
Swarms of robots will revolutionize many applications, from targeted material delivery to farming. However, the characteristics that make t…
The Space Enabled Research Group is exploring the potential of using beeswax and candle wax as potential fuels for satellites in space. Bee…
Making visible dynamics within conversations enables us to see conversation quality, dynamics between participants, the impact of facilitat…
Door-to-door drone package deliveries are taking off across the US. In this work we expose and study a newly emerging privacy is…
What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&nb…
Prolonged exposure to microgravity is known to cause various acute health risks, including muscle atrophy, bone loss, cardiovascular decon…
Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s Cen…