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Beyond the Cradle
What are radically sustainable methods for knitting, making and building in the age of the Anthropocene? How can humankind and members of...
“My team and I stand in the crossroads, challenging some of the processes that designers face at the intersection of biology and technology"
A five-story mixed-use structure in Roxbury represents a new kind of net-zero-energy building, made from wood.
The venturesome Oxman talks experimental materials and lunar habitation with the renowned architect.
Aguahoja I shows how nature can help us to design new materials, highlighting the relationship between nature and technology.
To build a new pavilion in midtown Manhattan, the architect Neri Oxman employed 17,000 silkworms.
How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US chi...
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will ensc...
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...
Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design spac...
Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level...
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...
Novel technologies for additive manufacturing are enabling design and production at nature’s scale. We can seamlessly vary the physical p...
Optically transparent and structurally sound, glass has played a significant role in the evolution of product and architectural design ac...
Designing for, with, and by nature
PlusMinus
The following Media Lab students joined the MIT India Initiative in Mumbai for this workshop.
IAP 2020 applications are open!🔥This course is open to all MIT students🔥Online application: bit/ly/mitcoffee2Application Deadline: D...
This project aims to create a modular platform for exploring micro-kitchens that are culture specific. Cooking is a personal experience t...
ScratchJr makes coding accessible to younger children (ages 5-7), enabling them to program their own interactive stories, games, and anim...
A 3D printing system that controls the behavior of live bacteria could someday enable medical devices with therapeutic agents built in.
We are working on communication interfaces for people with speech and language disorders, incorporating technologies like physiological s...
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
We present a mobile heart rate regulator—ambienBeat—which provides closed-loop ambient biofeedback via subliminal tactile stimulus based ...
WBUR’s picks for winter art exhibits around the Boston area include director’s fellow Christine Sun Kim’s “Off the Charts.”
[1] Solomon et al., 2007. Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA. [2] USEPA. (April 2012). Inventory of U.S Greenhouse gas emissions and sinks: 1990-2016, Figure 3-5.
Paola Antonelli talks about the forthcoming exhibition on the work of architect and designer Neri Oxman.
Multimodal textile sensate media as an expressive and deformable musical interfaceIn the area of intelligent textiles, we are exploring a...
Scratch Mondays is an initiative to share the Scratch Day spirit to schools in Brazil. After having a big Scratch Day event in 2018...
Ten multi-disciplinary teams join MIT’s design entrepreneurship accelerator.
Paper Dreams explores how human creativity can be supported by artificial intelligence.Prior research on AI and creativity has primarily ...
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
We talk a lot about the appliances that go into the future kitchen—but what about the design of the space itself?
The Orbit Weaver Suit for zero gravity was designed by Media Lab Director's Fellow Andrea Lauer in collaboration with ...
SpeechBlocks is a medium that allows children (4-5 years old) to engage in open-ended play with writing. They can build arbitrary composi...
In 2015, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), Jan Wörner, introduced the concept of the “Moon Village.” Inspired by t...
New adjunct associate professor combines fine arts and coding.
This mission included participation from several departments at MIT and outside collaborators from across the globe.
The Grain Prism is a hybrid musical instrument that combines granular synthesis and live audio recordings. Presented in a capacitive touc...
Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Media Lab's Space Enabled research group, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute A...
Bernal, Guillermo, Lily Zhou, Haripriya Mehta, and Pattie Maes. NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Creativity and Design, December 14, 2019.
Neri Oxman, Abrima Erwiah, Tracy Reese, Gabriela Hearst, Eileen Fisher, Karina Givargisoff addressed the issue at UN Women USA event.
Enhancing human physical capability
The Lut Desert of Iran is one of the most similar regions to Mars. Close to that area, there are vernacular adobe architectures that are ...
Researchers have come up with an innovation that will delight the fashion industry and people concerned about animal welfare: 3D-printed fur
In nature, hair has numerous functions such as providing warmth, adhesion, locomotion, sensing, and a sense of touch, as well as its well...
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...
“[The wild boars] look at me like I am a visitor. It's like they’re the owners and I’m the guest. Wild animals that normally live in natu...
Graphics on incompletenessThe City Science Summit 2019, CITIES WITHOUT, explored a future without top-down and obsolete systems. During t...
Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellow Prathima Muniyappa uses the transformative power of design to empower marginalized indigenous communities.
The sense of smell is perhaps the most pervasive of all senses, but it is also one of the least understood and least exploited in HCI. We...
Judith Amores and Pattie Maes. 2017. Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, Denver, CO, USA. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026004
Lutz, Nina. “Making Up the Unreal · Journal of Design and Science.” Journal of Design and Science, MIT Press, 23 Oct. 2019, https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ristj7wg.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
The extremely dextrous robot features a 24-joint human-hand-like design and took only four minutes to complete the task.
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
Today’s assistive communication devices are far from perfect. Using state of the art small, wearable sensors and powerful machine learnin...
Hairstyles, musical instruments and gardening all change in zero gravity, scientist Sands Fish says.
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...
Scratch is a programming language and online community that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations—a...
Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. ...
This is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laborator...
Moments is a prototype designed for users to save special moments and to experience those moments in the future. Firstly, a multi-se...
Is the placement of bike-share docks equitable?This interactive map explores the question visually.The map shows the addition of bike-sha...
Creating technology for social change