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Project Research

Interplanetary Gastronomy

The  Interplanetary Gastronomy research  aims to address the unique challenges and opportunities associated with eating in s…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #virtual reality #food +5 more
Project Research

Astronaut Ethnography

Our journeys off-world have taught us just as much about humanity as the harsh environment of space. For the past 20 years, we have had a c…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Sanjana Sharma · Ariel Ekblaw +1 more
#design #architecture #social science +2 more
Thesis Research

LunarWSN: A Wireless Sensor Network for In-Situ Lunar Water Ice Detection

Liu, Fangzheng. (2021). LunarWSN: A Wireless Sensor Network for In-Situ Lunar Water Ice Detection.

Thesis, Aug. 2021
in Responsive Environments
#sensors #space
Gallery Research

Explore Moon Architecture Workshop Digital FUTURES

Explore Moon ArchitectureWorkshop @Digital FUTURESNASA’s Artemis Program is envisioning a plan to drive humanity to live on our closest cel…

by Valentina Sumini · Aug. 13, 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative
#design #space
Project Research

Bio-Digital Wearables or Space Health Enhancement

Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…

in Fluid Interfaces · Space Exploration Initiative
Pat Pataranutaporn · M.S. Suryateja Jammalamadaka +3 more
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Article Research

Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality

The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.

via MIT News · July 28, 2021
in Opera of the Future · Responsive Environments · Fluid Interfaces +2 more
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

Self Assembling Space Frames

Ever wish you could toss your folded up tent and have it self-assemble mid-air?  Well...you can. In a zero gravity environment.Self As…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Che-Wei Wang
#robotics #design #architecture +14 more
Project Research

H0TP0T

By Larissa Zhou and Adam ZacharFood is crucial to maintaining the physical and psychological health of humans in space. Eating food pr…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

Panspermia

By Nancy Valladares and Rae Yuping HsuThis project is an art performance that seeks to rethink imaginaries of multispecies surviv…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

Miniature Optical Steered Antenna for Intersatellite Communication (MOSAIC)

The Miniature Optical Steered Antenna for Intersatellite Communications (MOSAIC)By Shreeyam KackerThe Miniature Optical Steered Antenn…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

Moving Liquids With No Moving Parts

Solid-state microfrabricated devices are in development to replace contemporary heavy mechanical components for use in spacecraft propellan…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

Ø-scillation: oscillating chemistry in zero gravity and beyond

How did life originate? Nobody knows. Life might not even be native to our Earth - it might have come from asteroids or the interstellar me…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Ariel Ekblaw · Carson Smuts +5 more
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

AgriFuge

By Somayajulu Dhulipala and Manwei ChanAs humanity explores deeper into space, long-duration missions will require horticulture activities …

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

Harmony in Precarity

By Po-Hao ChiHow could microgravity/hypergravity shape our perceptual experience of listening with weightlessness? How can we seek to explo…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Article Research

Danielle Wood discusses equity and sustainability in space on The Week with Joshua Johnson

Danielle Wood talks about the key role space technologies can play in advancing equity on Earth, if we design for sustainability.

via The Week on YouTube · July 23, 2021
in Space Enabled
#space
Article Research

Danielle Wood speaks on "The Down-to-Earth Applications of Space" with Bloomberg New Economy Forum

Space Enabled director Danielle Wood talks about applying space technologies to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

via Bloomberg New Economy · July 1, 2021
in Space Enabled
#environment #space #technology
Article Research

With the HUMANS project, a message that space is for everyone

Supported by the Space Exploration Initiative, the student-run HUMANS project aims to increase global representation in space.

via MIT News · July 20, 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative
#art #space #community +3 more
Article Research

‘Living’ space as the newest frontier: MIT’s Ariel Ekblaw to focus on self-assembling space architecture and habitats in CLS

Ariel Ekblaw spoke at the Chautauqua Institution about her novel space architecture ideas and a call for more dialogue on space ethics.

via The Chautauquan Daily · July 8, 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative
#architecture #environment #ethics +3 more
Publication Research

Into the Anthropocosmos: A Whole Space Catalog from the MIT Space Exploration Initiative

Ekblaw, Ariel. "Into the Anthropocosmos: A Whole Space Catalog from the MIT Space Exploration Initiative." MIT Press, September 2021. ISBN: 9780262046374

Book, Sept. 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative
#space #technology
Project Research

SpaceTouch

An astronaut's ability to leverage the sense of touch is substantially reduced when wearing a protective, pressurized spacesuit. We imagine…

in Responsive Environments
Juliana Cherston · Irmandy Wicaksono +2 more
#environment #sensors #space
Post Research

A New Chapter for Space Sustainability

MIT researchers are co-leading the design of a global Space Sustainability Rating system that will soon be operational.

June 17, 2021
in Space Enabled
#environment #space #technology
Article Research

A new chapter for space sustainability

MIT researchers are co-leading the design of a global Space Sustainability Rating system that will soon be operational.

via MIT News · June 25, 2021
in Space Enabled
#environment #space #technology
Post Research

Six suborbital research payloads fly on Blue Origin New Shepard

The projects on board the Media Lab's first suborbital rocket flight

May 1, 2019
in Space Exploration Initiative
#architecture #art #space +1 more
Post Research

Zero Gravity Flight 2019

This mission included participation from several departments at MIT and outside collaborators from across the globe.

Aug. 13, 2019
in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +6 more
Post Research

A sustainability rating for space debris

A team led by the Space Enabled group, ESA, and the World Economic Forum will address waste in Earth’s orbit

May 6, 2019
in Space Enabled
#environment #politics #space
Archived
Project Research

ZG Stardust

How might zero gravity space affect silk spinning, and what benefits might such material properties provide for digital fabrication and add…

in Mediated Matter · Space Exploration Initiative
Neri Oxman · Felix Kraemer +2 more
#space #zero gravity
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Maiden Flight

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

in Mediated Matter · Space Exploration Initiative
Felix Kraemer · Ri Ren +2 more
#robotics #design #agriculture +9 more
Archived
Archived
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 s…

in Mediated Matter
Christoph Bader · Dominik Kolb +4 more
#design #architecture #art +3 more
Archived
Project Research

ELI: Electronic Life-detection Instrument

Life on Mars, if it exists, could have been transferred between Earth and Mars due to meteorite impacts. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial G…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

The Interplanetary Cookbook

The Interplanetary Cookbook, developed by Maggie Coblentz, presents thought-provoking recipes and zero-g kitchenware for the future of life…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #virtual reality #food +5 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 fu…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Gershon Dublon · Xin Liu
#robotics #architecture #art +6 more
Post Research

Media Lab @ MIT Space Week 2021

The Space Exploration Initiative and Space Enabled research group are participating in this year's Virtual MIT Space Week.

April 14, 2021
in Responsive Environments · Fluid Interfaces · Conformable Decoders +2 more
#design #architecture #space +1 more
Project Research

A tailored, electronic textile conformable suit for large-scale spatiotemporal physiological sensing in vivo

The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wearables and smart textiles. Ho…

in Conformable Decoders
Canan Dagdeviren · Irmandy Wicaksono
#design #bioengineering #consumer electronics +13 more
Project Research

Persian Domes for Human Space Exploration on Mars

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 hu…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Valentina Sumini · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #architecture #construction +1 more
Article Research

How to shape a productive scientist–artist collaboration

Researchers + artists reflect on the partnerships that have created career opportunities and forged a deeper public understanding of science

via Nature · Feb. 17, 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative
#art #space #technology
Article Research

Visualizing the Future of Spaceship Earth (Prof. Dava Newman)

Prof Dava Newman fields listeners' questions about climate change and introduces EarthDNA, a platform for climate advocacy and action.

via Chalk Radio | MIT OpenCourseWare · March 3, 2021
in Director's Office
#environment #space #climate change
Post Research

MIT Space Policy Compendium

Read the new MIT Space Policy Compendium led by Dava Newman with co-authors including Ariel Ekblaw and Danielle Wood.

March 1, 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative · Space Enabled
#environment #politics #space +2 more
Article Research

What’s it like to design a meal that floats?

Taking a taste of the sensory research of Space Exploration Initiative’s Maggie Coblentz

via The Tech · Feb. 25, 2021
in Space Exploration Initiative
#design #virtual reality #food +3 more
Project Research

Tasting Menu in Zero G

 A multi-course tasting menu was flown on a zero gravity flight in August 2019.  Five specially crafted dishes were consumed…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Maggie Coblentz
#design #virtual reality #food +3 more
Thesis Research

Earth Observation Technology Applied to Environmental Management: A Case Study in Benin

Ovienmhada, U (2020). Earth Observation Technology Applied to Environmental Management: A Case Study in Benin, Thesis for Master of Science in Media Arts & Sciences. MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Thesis, May 2020
in Space Enabled
#space
Article Research

3 Questions: Using fabric to “listen” to space dust

Fabric samples are headed to the ISS for resiliency testing; possible applications include cosmic dust detectors or spacesuit smart skins.

via MIT News · Nov. 25, 2020
in Responsive Environments
#sensors #space #materials +1 more
Post Research

Media Lab Research Takes Flight

Space research, led by a diverse team of women scientists, will be presented at this year's AIAA Ascend Conference.

Nov. 16, 2020
in Responsive Environments · Fluid Interfaces · Space Exploration Initiative +1 more
#environment #health #sensors +5 more
Project Research

Lunar Open Architecture

Building an open, shared, and collaborative future of lunar exploration.Explore the Lunar Open Architecture (LOA) at loa.mit.edu. …

in Space Exploration Initiative
Mehak Sarang · Ariel Ekblaw
#architecture #environment #health +9 more
Project Research

Space Health

The MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is pushing the boundaries of space exploration innovation across the Media Lab’s many health…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Ariel Ekblaw
#space
Project Research

Earthrise | A 50 Year Contemplation

In December of 1968, the first human voyage to the moon catapulted the population of Earth into a new era of space exploration and self-ref…

in Space Enabled
Rachael Petersen · Danielle Wood +1 more
#space
Project Research

Climate CubeSat Co-Building Outreach Program (C3)

Climate CubeSat Co-Building (C3) The Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative is driven by an effort to democratize the future…

in ML Learning · Space Exploration Initiative
Ariel Ekblaw · Katherine McConachie +2 more
#space
Post Research

Team Space Enabled awarded NSF Grant to Study Inclusion within Emerging Innovation Practices in Boston and Detroit

Innovation dynamics of emerging co-creation practices: What are the impacts on inclusion?

Aug. 26, 2020
in Space Enabled
#space
Project Research

Floral Cosmonauts: Self-assembling silver dendrite networks in microgravity

Biological neuronal networks are highly complex and interconnected with superior information processing capabilities. Such networks have pr…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Harpreet Sareen
#design #manufacturing #space +3 more
Article Research

Mars on Earth: What can Victorian-era polar exploration teach us about space travel?

Tom Standage and Seth Stevenson talk to a range of experts about what Victorian-era polar exploration can teach us about space travel.

via The Secret History of the Future · July 31, 2019
in Space Enabled
#space #history
Article Research

Speculative machines produce existential wonder

A collaboration between CAST visiting artist Thom Kubli, Hiroshi Ishii, and members of the Tangible Media group.

via MIT News · March 12, 2020
in Tangible Media
#design #art #3d printing +1 more
Article Research

Using space technology to advance justice on Earth with Danielle Wood, director of the Space Enabled research group at MIT

Listen to Danielle Wood speak in a new episode of the Stories of Transformation podcast.

via Stories of Transformation Podcast · July 21, 2020
in Space Enabled
#space #technology #racial justice
Article Research

Danielle Wood quoted in Space News: How the space sector is responding to the killing of George Floyd

If the space industry wants to become more diverse, it must come to terms with how racially motivated decisions shape the country, Wood said

via Space News Magazine · July 15, 2020
in Space Enabled
#space #racial justice
Article Research

Danielle Wood quoted in Nature News article on UAE Space Program

The United Arab Emirates’ Hope orbiter is the Arab world’s first interplanetary spacecraft — and has jump-started science in the country.

via Nature · July 8, 2020
in Space Enabled
#space #technology
Article Research

Orbiting, the new floating installation on the history of humanity

Artists and scientists from MIT united to create "Orbiting," an aerial archive of objects that trace the history of humanity.

via Sky Arte · April 23, 2020
in Tangible Media
#design #art #3d printing +1 more
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Project Research

The Telemetron Orchestra

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 freq…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Thomas Sanchez Lengeling · Nicole L'Huillier +1 more
#design #music #interfaces +3 more
Archived
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 instanc…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Juliana Cherston · Paul Strohmeier
#design #architecture #art +7 more
Article Research

Black engineers see both pride and exclusion in the return of human spaceflight

Like too many science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, the aerospace sector in the US is populated mainly by white people.

via Quartz · June 10, 2020
in Space Enabled
#design #space #community +3 more
Archived
Project Research

Liquid resin fabrication in microgravity

The future of human life outside of Earth will heavily depend on the ability to fabricate and manufacture things. Yet fabrication in space …

in Space Exploration Initiative · Tangible Media
Amos Golan
#manufacturing #space #zero gravity
Archived
Article Research

MIT’s robotic tail could aid crew operations in space

Developed by a team of Media Lab researchers, SpaceHuman is a seahorse-inspired additive prosthetic for use in microgravity environments.

via Hackster.io · May 15, 2020
in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
#space #technology #zero gravity +1 more
Publication Research

SpaceHuman: A Soft Robotic Prosthetic for Space Exploration

Sumini, V., Muccillo, M., Milliken, J., Ekblaw, A. and Paradiso, J., 2020. SpaceHuman: A Soft Robotic Prosthetic For Space Exploration. [online] Dl.acm.org. Available at: <https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3334480.3383087> [Accessed: 11 May 2020]

Proceedings, April 2020
in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #design #space +1 more
Publication Research

Master Planning and Space Architecture for a Moon Village

Proceedings, Oct. 2019
in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
#design #architecture #construction +1 more
Article Research

MIT professor Neri Oxman is as otherworldly as her creations

"We, as architects of the built environment, are entering an era where we’re designing for survival.”

via Interview Magazine · April 15, 2020
in Mediated Matter
#design #architecture #art +3 more
Article Research

Danielle Wood – Advancing Earth justice by way of space

"Space belongs to all countries—every country deserves equal opportunities to pursue scientific achievement for societal benefit."

via NASA Applied Sciences · April 1, 2020
in Space Enabled
#environment #space #technology
Post Research

Five MIT payloads deployed on ISS

A cohort of transdisciplinary researchers will study effects of sustained microgravity

March 25, 2020
in Space Exploration Initiative
#space #zero gravity
Post Research

Designing humanity’s future in space

The Space Exploration Initiative’s latest research flight explores work and play in zero gravity

Nov. 27, 2019
in Space Exploration Initiative
#space #technology #zero gravity
Post Research

Democratizing Access to Space

When we say we’re “democratizing access to space exploration,” what do we mean?

May 30, 2019
in Space Exploration Initiative
#design #art #space +1 more
Post Research

TESSERAE: ISS 30 day mission

On an upcoming SpaceX launch (CRS-20), we are launching seven TESSERAE v3 hardware tiles to the International Space Station.

Feb. 27, 2020
in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
#sensors #space #engineering
Article Research

The artist-engineer in VR

At Sundance New Frontiers 2020, Xin Liu and Qinya (Jenny) Guo debuted Living Distance, a VR piece about the journey of Liu’s wisdom tooth.

via Immerse · March 2, 2020
in Space Exploration Initiative
#virtual reality #art #space +1 more
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