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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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City Science

Enabling dynamic, evolving places that respond to the complexities of life
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City Science Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
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Andorra | Energy + Environment

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.
Gallery Research

School and energy awareness, City Science Andorra

SCHOOL, ENERGY AWARENESSUsing TerMITes in the Santa Coloma School in Andorra we want to sensibilize students about the relation of the en...
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Social Machines

Understanding and empowering human networks
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City Science Network

City Science Network
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Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
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DCP: Digital Construction Environment

The Digital Construction Environment is the first architectural-scale structure fabricated with the Digital Construction Platform (DCP). ...
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Roadmap for Autonomous Cities: Sustainable Transformation of Urban Spaces
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City Science Lab Aalto

Aalto University and the MIT Media Lab’s City Science Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology co - develop a version of t...
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Mediated Atmospheres

The Mediated Atmospheres project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work e...
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Robotic construction platform creates large buildings on demand

3D-print a building on demand: IEEE Spectrum on the Mediated Matter group's Digital Construction Platform.
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Neri Oxman 3D prints glass at an architectural scale

Glass II: 3D printing glass at the architectural scale.
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Mindful Photons: Context-Aware Lighting

Light enables our visual perception. It is the most common medium for displaying digital information. Light regulates our circadian rhyth...
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Amoetecture

Amoeba Wall: A context aware wall system: Amoetecture is a set of amoeba-like dynamic spatial elements, including transformable floo...
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Digital Construction Platform

The Digital Construction Platform (DCP) is an experimental enabling technology for large-scale digital manufacturing. In contrast to the ...
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Advancing Wellbeing

Advancing Wellbeing
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Glass II

The Platform Optically transparent and structurally sound, glass has played a significant role in the evolution of product and archi...
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Inside YET: the luminous Lexus pavilion at Milan Design Week 2017

Neri Oxman, architect, designer and professor at MIT Media Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) with her team, The Mediated Matter...
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Robotic Assembly of Discrete Cellular Lattices (Digital Materials)

Digital Materials are a way of designing and manufacturing. Rather than building large, monolithic, single-use components, we discretize ...
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Digital Construction Platform v.1

The Digital Construction Platform (DCP) is an in-progress research project consisting of a compound robotic arm system. The system compri...
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CE 2.0

CE 2.0
How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's needs.
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Center for Civic Media
Hundred-Dollar Laptop
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Consumer Electronics Laboratory
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Communications Futures Program
How people and objects can tell tales of their experience and learn from others as they navigate through the vast media fabric made up of intertwining storied threads.
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How everything from interface agents to toys can be designed to respond with human-like, full-body linguistic and social competencies.
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How to build characters that have the everyday common sense, the ability to learn, and the sense of empathy that one finds in animals such as dogs.
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eRationality

How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.
How to give computers human-like intuition so they can better understand us.
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How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.
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How to enhance understanding, enable creativity, and ease our interactions with the technological environment.
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Grassroots Invention

How to engineer and disseminate powerful, low-cost design and fabrication technologies at a grassroots level.
How various phenomena of mind emerge from the interactions among many kinds of highly evolved brain mechanisms.
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Future of Learning

How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
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New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
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Physics and Media

How to bring the programmability of the digital world to the physical world.

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Things That Think
How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
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How to improve mobility with higher-quality and lower-power-consumption display technology.
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How buildings and cities can become more intelligently responsive to the needs and desires of their inhabitants.
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Spatial Imaging
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Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
How artists and engineers can refigure technology for the full range of human experience.
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SIMPLICITY
Visible Language Workshop
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Architecture Machine Group
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Electronic Publishing

How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences. Walter Bender is currently on leave.
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Nanoscale Sensing

How to detect the activity of biological molecules with micro- and nanofabricated devices.
Future Storytelling
How storytelling form can be best achieved using new computational approaches for the creator and user of media such as video, cinema, and photography.
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How to design machines that use what we do, where we are, and how we feel to add to our social, educational, and functional success.
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How simplifying the basic tools for digital expression will lead to a new creative digital economy. For more Physical Language Workshop projects, see Henry Holtzman.
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How to create seamless and pervasive connections between our physical environments and information resources.
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quanta

How we can construct information technology and intelligence from the fundamental building blocks of physical media: atoms and molecules.
Center for Future Banking
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Digital Life
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Counter Intelligence
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