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NASA, ESA, H. Teplitz and M. Rafelski (IPAC/Caltech), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and Z. Levay (STScI)
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&...
Hosted by the MIT Media Lab, this fireside chat will feature Lt. General Shaw, the deputy commander of US Space Command; Dava Newman, the...
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 tw...
Dr. Valentina Sumini participated as invited speaker to the Space Week at EXPO Dubai 2020 in occasion of the panel "The lunar space econo...
Inimitable and Iconic: Italian Design Stories in the USDr. Valentina Sumini, as designated Ambassador of Italian Design in the...
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: Envisio...
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), composed of nearly 30,000 engineers and scientists from 91 countries, ...
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 ...
Valentina Sumini has been invited as speaker at the " Space Architecture" talk for the weekly DigitalFUTURES panel discussion on No...
Valentina Sumini will be Keynote Speaker at IAB Forum 2020 "Metaverse" event.Metaverse is a new dimension of living to be shaped and buil...
Due to Covid-19, the 71st International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2020, is a Cyberspace Edition offered without registration fee, ...
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 Septembe...
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 th...
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 w...
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 co...
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 Paten...
The Space Exploration Initiative is delighted to host young explorers from National Geographic's Student Expeditions for their 2019 ...
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 t...
This workshop highlights the many opportunities to bring our rich culture of Earth-based fermentation practices to space. There is great ...
We have recently completed the first iteration of Space Explorations—a curriculum based on our larger C3 program, co-designed with t...
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.&nbs...
SPACE² WORKSHOPVisit event page here!The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) and the MIT Media Lab Space Exploratio...
Fall 2018 member meetingAgenda: Thursday, October 25Attendance at this event is by invitation only.Unable to join us in person? ...
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...
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 G...
Novel approaches for embedding mycelium in agricultural waste to make robust building material.
The Space Exploration initiative's inaugural research flight in zero gravity
The MIT Media Lab Space Exploration Initiative travels to NASA's NIEA conference this week, to present our biomimicry and nature-in...
Darlene Lim discusses two NASA projects focused on blending field science research with the development of human exploration tools.
Space will be hackable. Space will be playful. This opportunity to design our interplanetary lives beckons.
Space will be hackable. Space will be playful. Space grows ever more accessible to the space enthusiast.