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How can cities deploy a systematic process for transformation?Cities are among the most complex systems humans have created—interwoven netw…
The arts and sciences are two things that remain uniquely human, each for its own reasons.In both cases, they are products of the human min…
The State of AI and Human Flourishing Survey is a research initiative from the MIT Media Lab’s Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) program exami…
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…
An immersive decision-support platform that lets communities and planners experience zoning scenarios in real time.
The MIT City Science team will work with the Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa and Mubil Fundazioa on a new collaboration to create the City Sci…
The City Science Summit is an annual gathering of the City Science Network: an international community of institutions and researchers that…
A digital identity-support game for immigrant-origin youth — co-designed with the school counselors.
A co-present, group-based affective game that helps adults practice emotional intelligence with the friends they already have.
Urban Breath Art, AI, and community in evolving public space
The Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) research program at the MIT Media Lab explores research on AI and human psychology. We explore how…
Our research group designs various hardware and software platforms that can be used to do scientific experiments or implement a particular …
Projects related to the theme of how digital systems may support attention, memory, and learning.
The Global Observatory monitors worldwide impact of AI adoption across cultures, tracking both positive and negative outcomes such as over-…
Cities exist to concentrate access to opportunities. A systematic approach to assessing how each person experiences this access is a p…
Reimagining machine perception by using ultra-sensitive single-photon imaging to see farther, faster, and in conditions where conventional …
FiberCircuits: A Miniaturization Framework To Manufacture Fibers That Embed Integrated Circuits• Keywords:Embedded Systems, Wearables,…
A browser VJ rig for the world's webcams that pipes live EarthCam feeds through a GPU Rutt/Etra synthesizer, the same luminance-to-wirefram…
The Jibo Research Platform is an in-the-field deployable Social Robotics experimentation and data collection infrastructure. Built upon the…
Doodlebot is a robot-based creative AI learning platform for high school students. It consists of an introduction to robotics, hardware, so…
A computationally aligned stereo pair of the Moon, captured simultaneously from Boston and Santiago during the lunar eclipse on March …
A browser-based video mirror that puts a rolling pupil in each one of your eyes. The sockets get painted white, a heavy little pupil drops …
An ongoing attempt to reconstruct the 1970s Aspen Movie Map as a hierarchical 3D Gaussian Splat scene, built from a 16 mm film sc…
A Gaussian splat reconstruction of 237 frames of the bullet time sequence from The Matrix (1999). A roundtrip from CGI to celluloid and bac…
Today’s indoor sensing systems face a fundamental tradeoff: cameras provide rich visual detail but raise privacy concerns, while tradition…
We build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
LIMITER is a new musical instrument designed to incorporate game-like elements into an interface for justly intonated and microtonal c…
Brainstorming Agents is an interactive system for controlled speculation. Everyday, the backend scrapes trending topics from the news cycle…
Set in 2034, After AGI follows Theos, a disillusioned AI engineer hiding in a bunker after the technology he helped build begins to fractur…
This study explores the feasibility of using smile and smirk expression dynamics, captured through our novel stimulus-based mobile aff…
Ohara is an editorial intelligence layer for the social-media feed you already follow. It collects your diverse social media feeds ,&…
MyFeed is a local-first capture-and-curation layer for the social-media feed you already follow. Installed as a browser extension, it quiet…
Seeing Is Not Believing: Realistic AI Videos Disrupt Confidence in Authentic Videos and Perceived RealityVisual media has long served as a …
People often remember visuals but struggle to put them into words—creating a gap between what we see and what we can describe.Modern image …
VoiceTraceCommunity voices you can check.Every year, cities, school districts, and government agencies ask communities for input. Residents…
Coin selection refers to the problem of choosing a set of tokens to fund a transaction in token-based payment systems such as, e.g., crypto…
As AI systems increasingly take on instructional roles — providing feedback, guiding practice, evaluating work — a fundamental question eme…
As AI increasingly enters the classroom, what changes when students collaborate with algorithms instead of peers? We analyzed 36 under…
In arid climates, the atmosphere is a source of water, but its extraction is energy-prohibitive.Many countries have arid climates in signi…
Loneliness is a growing and global issue that affects approximately a third of individuals in industrialized countries. Given the…
Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles are a new class of artificial muscle fibers for robots and wearables. By integrating charge-injection electroh…
From Remote Space to Remote TimeTuesday, April 14, 2026 (14:15 – 15:45 CEST)CHI 2026 Panel This panel explores a design vision that re…
Working with leading neuroscientist Richard Davidson and the Healthy Minds Institute, we are developing objective biomarkers to interpret a…
Large language models are increasingly used for ideation, yet most interactions with them occur through linear GUI-based chat interfaces th…
Space JellyfishOrbital Data Center for Planetary SustainabilitySpace Jellyfish is an orbital data center whose form emerges from energy har…
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
The myoneural actuator is a fatigue-resistant, implantable biohybrid actuator built from living skeletal muscle, engineered through a regen…
More details: iceberg.mit.eduFurther research: media.mit.edu/projects/ai-lpm/overviewAbstractArtificial Intelligence is reshaping Amer…
Shared autonomous bicycles could transform how we move through cities, but their impact depends on how they are designed and integrated. Th…
In 2025, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts convened the Special Commission on Micromobility to examine the rapid emergence of lightweight m…
As AI systems become increasingly integrated into daily life, their capacity to both enhance and undermine human flourishing demands rigoro…
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
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 …
As AI systems evolve from external tools to wearable interfaces and prospective neural implants, the proximity between human cognition and …
This work examines women’s everyday mobility and experiences of insecurity in an informal neighborhood, comparing how different research me…
How prepared are our digital infrastructures—and our cities—for the transition to a quantum-secure world?Cities are complex social ecosyste…
In collaboration with Lighthouse Disruptive Innovation Group (LDIG), this work explores the application of quantum algorithms to spatial di…
Archiving 7 years of web experiments and making a platform for new ones.
This study introduces PixBric, a pixel-based textile methodology composed of primitive geometries designed to induce controlled morphing be…
The act of cracking knuckles often stems from psychological tension, nervous focus, or the satisfaction of release. Crackers explores how t…
Realistic simulation of red-braised pork has always been an important challenge in the history of computer science. The bouncy, succulent, …
3D Illusion experiments from autostereograms to lenticular displays.
FaceTerm is an interactive installation that turns you into ASCII art.
Research on non-linear and linear least squares for matching doodles.