Designing for, with, and by nature

An evolving list of IAP activities hosted by members of the Media Lab community in collaboration with other MIT departments this year.

The past years of climate crises and health epidemics have led to the proliferation of nomadic communities and a near reliance on e-commerce

Meet the Labbers, which ran from 2016–2018, was an ongoing audio series that took listeners inside the Media Lab.

Andrea Ling, an alum of the Mediated Matter group, has won the Grand Prize in Artistic Exploration at this year's festival.

The competition, now in its ninth year, has featured a cross section of blue-chip companies, scruffy startups, and hungry young talents.

Aguahoja—a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards—rethinks the paradigm of recycling.

Silk Pavilion II / Silkworm rearing

Silk Pavilion II / Fabrication

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.

To build a new pavilion in midtown Manhattan, the architect Neri Oxman employed 17,000 silkworms.

“My team and I stand in the crossroads, challenging some of the processes that designers face at the intersection of biology and technology"

A 3D printing system that controls the behavior of live bacteria could someday enable medical devices with therapeutic agents built in.

Neri Oxman, Abrima Erwiah, Tracy Reese, Gabriela Hearst, Eileen Fisher, Karina Givargisoff addressed the issue at UN Women USA event.

Aguahoja I shows how nature can help us to design new materials, highlighting the relationship between nature and technology.

Mediated Matter head Neri Oxman talks to ELLE about her work.

SFMOMA has announced that Neri Oxman will receive a prestigious award this fall

Steven Keating inspired millions with his research-driven approach to battling cancer and his advocacy for open patient health data

A star of MIT’s Media Lab working in “material ecology,” she has intrigued Björk, Brad Pitt, and the Cooper Hewitt.

Neri Oxman has been chosen as an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

The Media Lab panel at San Diego Comic-Con covered inclusion, exploration, and the reciprocity between fiction and research at the Lab

Images from Neri Oxman and the Mediated Matter group, representing a large body of work from their research and collaborations.

Interaction Design category

Design at the Intersection of Technology and Biology

Neri Oxman interviewed as one of CNN's "five top women in world architecture"

Five join the SA+P faculty, while 10 are recognized for work in art, architecture, urbanism, and design.

Neri Oxman, architect, designer and professor at MIT Media Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) with her team, The Mediated Matter G…

"I feel like I go to the real-life museum of science, where the machines and the projects all come to life."

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Bees are essential to our economy. A 2012 Cornell University study estimated the contribution of honey bees (Apis mellifera) to U.S. crop p…

FOR THOUSANDS OF years, the living have used death masks to memorialize their dead. Some, like those cast from the faces of Napolean Bonapa…