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Designs on the sky

Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellow Prathima Muniyappa uses the transformative power of design to empower marginalized indigenous communities.
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The Root 100 2019

The Root 100 is our annual list of the most influential African Americans, ages 25 to 45.
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World's 100 most influential people in digital government 2019

Commending a formidable variety of international change-makers driving digital transformation in government.
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Making Up the Unreal

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.
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BBC 100 Women 2019: Who is on the list this year?

Meet 100 inspiring, influential women from around the world, including Labbers Ayah Bdeir and Rana el Kaliouby.
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For young activists, a new cause: period parity

The MIT Media Lab is setting out to reimagine the tired old monthly enterprise with a “period hackathon."
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Space exploration and the age of the Anthropocosmos

Joi Ito calls for responsible stewardship of the commons beyond our planet.
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From famous to forgotten

Collective Learning head César Hidalgo talks to Innovation Hub about cultural knowledge, and how our collective memories form and fade.
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How Delhi Crime gave audiences a chance to reimagine the police force

Richie Mehta’s show balances negative media narratives of the Indian police & catalyses empathetic conversations on their working conditions
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Designing social robots for older adults

Most countries are projected to see the number of people ages 65 and older surpass the population under the age of 15 by 2050. The limitati…
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Seven ways to create entertainment with impact

Communicating a message through entertainment can be difficult, because you have to be careful not to preach to the audience.
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How the medium shapes the message: Printing and the rise of the arts and sciences

Jara-Figueroa C, Yu AZ, Hidalgo CA (2019) How the medium shapes the message: Printing and the rise of the arts and sciences. PLoS ONE 14(2): e0205771. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205771
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MIT’s LeakyPhones help you interact with strangers by sharing music at a glance

The Tangible Media group is researching human interaction with the gadgets and gizmos around us.
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LinkedOut: Codesigning societal reentry with returning citizens

Rubez Chong writes about the Center for Civic Media’s work with the City of Boston’s Office of Returning Citizens.
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Supposedly ‘fair’ algorithms can perpetuate discrimination

"We must provide a mechanism for civil society to be informed and engaged in the way in which algorithms are used."
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How we’ll forget John Lennon

César Hidalgo considers the role technology plays in how people and events enter, and fade from, collective memory.
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The next great (digital) extinction

We’re in a modern Cambrian era, sorting through an explosion of technologies enabled by the Internet.