Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future

Biennale Architettura 2025GENS Public Programme The Sustainable Lightness of SpaceWorkshop developed and moderated by Valentina Sumini…

Several Media Lab community members will participate in MIT's inaugural Artfinity festival.

This event is by invitation only. If you have any questions, please contact events@media.mit.edu.

MicroPET is an autonomous payload for conducting enzymatic reactions and microbial cultivation experiments in space, featuring programmable…

A number of Media Lab community members are attending AGU 2024.

Learn more about the MIT Media Lab community members who are presenting their work as part of this exhibition.

Founded and produced by the MIT Museum, the Cambridge Science Festival will take place in-person across several venues across the city.

Engaging with Space through Technology + CreativityExperts explore new ways to connect with space through technology and creativity. Paneli…

Beyond the CradleThursday, April 4, 2024In-person with livestreamEmail beyondthecradle@media.mit.edu for a link to register to jo…

To conclude its exhibition of "TECHNOSCAPE The Architecture of Engineers" (October 1, 2022 –April 16, 2023), Museo MAXXI in Rome, Ital…

Beyond the Cradle: Earth + Space Wednesday, March 15, 2023Virtual and In-PersonThis event will be live streamed starting at 8:45am ET …

IFT celebrated its launch with a press conference, a research conference, and an evening of interactive arts performances.

Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity.

The International Astronautical Congress 2022 was hosted in Paris, France, and the Media Lab was well-represented.

The workshop title is "Space Technology for Food System Resilience and Sustainability," led by Maggie Coblentz.

SEI's Sana Sharma will be speaking on sci-fi inspired space architectures.

This year's conference featured a hybrid-onsite structure from April 30–May 5 in New Orleans, LA.

SpaceCHI 2.0: Advancing Human-Computer Interaction for Space ExplorationA Workshop at ACM CHI 2022 / Hybrid Workshop on May 1, 2022&nb…

Hosted by the MIT Media Lab, this fireside chat will feature Lt. General Shaw, the deputy commander of US Space Command; Dava Newman, the d…

Learn more about the Media Lab community members and projects that are taking the stage during this year's SXSW conference.

Part of the Aspen Institute’s Conversations with Great Leaders Series.

LecturersProf. Joseph Paradiso, Prof. Valentina Sumini, Arch. Guillermo Trotti Webinar Series  SyllabusIn the last twen…

Dr. Valentina Sumini participated as invited speaker to the Space Week at EXPO Dubai 2020 in occasion of the panel "The lunar space economy…

 Inimitable and Iconic: Italian Design Stories in the USDr. Valentina Sumini, as designated Ambassador of Italian Design in the W…

A variety of Media Lab community members will be participating in the virtual 2021 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Space travel and becoming an interplanetary species have always been part of humanity’s greatest imaginings.

This year Beyond the Cradle will be a virtual celebration! Envisioning a New Space Age April 15, 2021Beyond the Cradle: Envisioni…

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), composed of nearly 30,000 engineers and scientists from 91 countries, s…

SEI is participating in ASCEND 2020, a new event designed to drive the space economy forward. It’s intended to be the center of gravity fo…

Valentina Sumini has been invited as speaker at the " Space Architecture" talk for the weekly DigitalFUTURES panel discussion on  Nove…

Valentina Sumini will be Keynote Speaker at IAB Forum 2020 "Metaverse" event.Metaverse is a new dimension of living to be shaped and build …

Due to Covid-19, the 71st International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2020, is a Cyberspace Edition offered without registration fee, fr…

Electronic textile samples associated with the SpaceSkin project will be sent to the International Space Station for the first time

The Moon Dialogs is pleased to announce the sixth salon in our series aimed at advancing interdisciplinary lunar policy thinking.

SEI's participation in IAC 2020 includes one panel appearance and two papers, detailed below.

The following research from the Media Lab will be featured at the 2020 Ars Electronica Festival, which will take place September …

Valentina Sumini has been invited to contribute with the talk "Multiplanetary Future" to the TEDx Bologna event dedicated to "Outsiders".

We created a digital spaceship to share the diverse portfolio from the Initiative. Audiences are invited to immerse themselves.

Register The Moon Dialogs is pleased to announce the fourth salon in our series aimed at advancing interdisciplinary lunar policy thin…

The third salon in our series aimed at advancing interdisciplinary lunar policy thinking relevant to near term lunar activity.

CANCELLED (in-person)Context from MIT's PresidentEnvisioning a New Space AgeMarch 12, 2020The Moon awaits, with Mars soon to follow. As we …

Several members of the Media Lab community are participating in the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

Come and see projects from our Zero G Flight, Blue Origin Suborbital Launch, upcoming ISS Mission, and more!

The International Astronautical Congress in Washington, DC brings together about 5,000 members of the global space comm…

The Space Exploration Initiative will be sharing eight paper presentations at the International Astronautical Congress in Washington DC

A variety of research from the Media Lab will be featured at the 2019 Ars Electronica Festival.

The Boston Design Academy (BDA) is developing projects and activities to help high school students learn and engage with their Patent …

The Space Exploration Initiative is delighted to host young explorers from National Geographic's Student Expeditions for their 2019 pr…

Join us for a panel discussion on space exploration, in the glow of the many Apollo 11 celebrations.

As the finale to our year-long partnership with the Youth Science Initiative—a Cambridge-based program for increasing diversity in the…

This workshop highlights the many opportunities to bring our rich culture of Earth-based fermentation practices to space. There is great po…

We have recently completed the first iteration of Space Explorations—a curriculum based on our larger C3 program, co-designed with tea…

A discussion about the first results from the Event Horizon Telescope.

Attendance at this private event is by invitation only, but the full program will be publicly livestreamed

It’s no secret that some of the most important breakthroughs in aerospace and planetary science are coming from Boston and Cambridge. …

SPACE² WORKSHOPVisit event page here!The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) and the MIT Media Lab Space Exploration …

Fall 2018 member meetingAgenda: Thursday, October 25Attendance at this event is by invitation only.Unable to join us in person? J…

In 1990, from six million kilometers away, Voyager 1 took a snapshot of our existence in the universe: a pale blue dot. In it, we saw the l…

Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey

Join us, as the MIT Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative presents research results from the 14 projects that flew in Zero Gra…