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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +58 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Support

#robotics #design #virtual reality +42 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…

in City Science
Maitane Iruretagoyena · Kent Larson +9 more
#design #architecture #data +15 more
Project Research

Living Knitwork Pavilion

One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…

in Responsive Environments · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Irmandy Wicaksono · Manaswi Mishra +5 more
#design #architecture #art +6 more
Project Research

Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…

in Responsive Environments
Irmandy Wicaksono · Don Derek Haddad
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +15 more
Research
Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

#robotics #design #architecture +31 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Research
Conformable Decoders

Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy

#robotics #design #computer vision +46 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +76 more
Accepting Applicants
Project Research

City Science Network

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body +1 more
Maitane Iruretagoyena · Markus Elkatsha +19 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +11 more
Project Research

City Science Lab @ Guadalajara

The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…

in City Science
Leticia Izquierdo Garcia · Maitane Iruretagoyena +5 more
#design #human-computer interaction #agriculture +4 more
Project Research

Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (AttentivU - P-POP)

​The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …

in Fluid Interfaces · Space Exploration Initiative
Nataliya Kos'myna · Pattie Maes
#robotics #architecture #environment +11 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in

#robotics #design #social networks +142 more
Archived
Project Research

Aguahoja

Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design space.…

in Mediated Matter
Jorge Duro-Royo · Joshua Van Zak +11 more
#design #architecture #art +7 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity

#robotics #design #social networks +134 more
Research
Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

#robotics #design #virtual reality +73 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +73 more
Article Research

From MIT to Burning Man: The Living Knitwork Pavilion

Learn about the Living Knitwork Pavilion: an interactive architectural installation that combined textile arts + engineering at Burning Man.

via MIT News · Oct. 13, 2023
in Responsive Environments · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#design #architecture #art +6 more
Research
Responsive Environments

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

#robotics #design #social networks +75 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

#robotics #design #social networks +42 more
Accepting Applicants
Research
Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing

#robotics #design #social networks +131 more
Project Research

Light Sculptures

This series of artwork repurposes the movement of light as the basis for sculpture, and investigate how architecture meets the natural worl…

in Future Sketches · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Dexter Callender
#design #computer vision #architecture +2 more
Project Research

Bio-Digital Wearables for Space Health Enhancement

Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…

in Fluid Interfaces · Space Exploration Initiative
Pat Pataranutaporn · M.S. Suryateja Jammalamadaka +3 more
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…

in City Science
Leticia Izquierdo Garcia · Kent Larson +5 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +18 more
Research
Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation

#multimodal representation #performance technologies #digital opera +69 more
Accepting Applicants
Article Research

The latest kirigami-inspired engineering materials are also works of art

Researchers at the MIT Center for Bits + Atoms have created plate lattices that are lighter than cork and highly customizable.

via Popular Science · Aug. 23, 2023
in Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#robotics #design #architecture +3 more
Research
Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience

#robotics #design #social networks +147 more
Article Research

Seamlessly weaving textile art, culture, and technology in the Living Knitwork Pavilion

Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono reflects on bringing The Living Knitwork Pavilion to Burning Man.

via The Burning Man Journal · Aug. 24, 2023
in Responsive Environments · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#design #architecture #art +4 more
Project Research

Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…

in City Science · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI +1 more
Markus Elkatsha · Kent Larson +7 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +23 more
Course Research

MAS.S66 - City Sci-fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Ecology Futures

City Sci-fi  // Fall 2023 A City Science workshopFIRST CLASS:    September 13th (WED) - 2pm, E15-359Instructors:&n…

MAS.S66 · with Kent Larson, Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor, Gabriela Bila Advincula
in City Science
#design #architecture #art +2 more
Archived
Project Research

The EBIFA robot (Everything Beautiful Is Far Away)

EBIFA (Everything Beautiful Is Far Away) is a crystalline robotic device that carried a tooth to outer space. EBIFA's form and fu…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Gershon Dublon · Xin Liu
#robotics #architecture #art +6 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Spatial Flux: Body and architecture in space

Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new wor…

in City Science · Space Exploration Initiative
Carson Smuts · Chrisoula Kapelonis
#design #architecture #art +4 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Telepresent Drawings in Space

This project asks, how can we transmit experiences across space and time? The launching point of the project is to create a drawing that co…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Anne Liu
#agriculture #architecture #art +4 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Persian Domes for Human Space Exploration on Mars

The Lut Desert of Iran is one of the most similar regions to Mars. Close to that area, there are vernacular adobe architectures that are hu…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Valentina Sumini · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #architecture #construction +1 more
Archived
Project Research

Candlewax Rockets: A Green Alternative for In-Space Propulsion

Wax-based hybrid rocket propellants, including paraffin (common candlewax) and beeswax show promise as high-performing hybrid rocket propel…

in Space Enabled · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body
Javier Stober
#robotics #architecture #art +16 more
Project Research

TESSERAE: Self-Assembling Space Architecture

Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will enscon…

in Space Exploration Initiative · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds
Ariel Ekblaw
#robotics #design #agriculture +12 more
Archived
Project Research

Aguahoja III

Aguahoja III expands the capabilities of a broad library of sustainable, organic 3D materials with generative patterns that countervail str…

in Mediated Matter · Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Nic Lee · Joao Pedro Goncalves Marins Costa +2 more
#design #architecture #art +3 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Envirome Monitoring with CRISPR Biosensors

In recent years, there has been an increase in low-cost and open-source electronic and chemical sensors that hobbyists, concerned citizens,…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative · Open Ocean
Devora Najjar
#robotics #architecture #art +14 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Moon Village

In 2015, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), Jan Wörner, introduced the concept of the “Moon Village.” Inspired by the…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Valentina Sumini · Joseph A. Paradiso
#design #architecture #construction +1 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Space Fabrics: resilient electronic textiles for distributed sensing in low Earth orbit

Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. S…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Juliana Cherston
#design #architecture #consumer electronics +14 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal

The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will genera…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Valentina Sumini · Clement Duhart +4 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +10 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Lunar Open Architecture

Building an open, shared, and collaborative future of lunar exploration.Explore the Lunar Open Architecture (LOA) at loa.mit.edu. …

in Space Exploration Initiative
Mehak Sarang · Ariel Ekblaw
#architecture #environment #health +9 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Fluid Expressions - Art and Craft in Microgravity

When imagining human life in space, how will we express our humanity and creativity in an alien environment? Can the art we make both refle…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Sanjana Sharma
#robotics #design #architecture +13 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

H0TP0T

By Larissa Zhou and Adam ZacharFood is crucial to maintaining the physical and psychological health of humans in space. Eating food pr…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Reconfigurable space structures

Rapid prototyping platforms such as 3D printers used for digital fabrication are today able to manufacture custom objects for specific task…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +13 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Zenolith - An Interplanetary Time Device

On Earth, morning, noon, and night have their own specific meanings. The feeling of a second or a minute passing by, the shortening of the …

in Space Exploration Initiative
Sands Fish · Che-Wei Wang +1 more
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Self Assembling Space Frames

Ever wish you could toss your folded up tent and have it self-assemble mid-air?  Well...you can. In a zero gravity environment.Self As…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Che-Wei Wang
#robotics #design #architecture +14 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Harmony in Precarity

By Po-Hao ChiHow could microgravity/hypergravity shape our perceptual experience of listening with weightlessness? How can we seek to explo…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Miniature Optical Steered Antenna for Intersatellite Communication (MOSAIC)

The Miniature Optical Steered Antenna for Intersatellite Communications (MOSAIC)By Shreeyam KackerThe Miniature Optical Steered Antenn…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Moving Liquids With No Moving Parts

Solid-state microfrabricated devices are in development to replace contemporary heavy mechanical components for use in spacecraft propellan…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Ø-scillation: oscillating chemistry in zero gravity and beyond

How did life originate? Nobody knows. Life might not even be native to our Earth - it might have come from asteroids or the interstellar me…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Ariel Ekblaw · Carson Smuts +5 more
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

AgriFuge

By Somayajulu Dhulipala and Manwei ChanAs humanity explores deeper into space, long-duration missions will require horticulture activities …

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Panspermia

By Nancy Valladares and Rae Yuping HsuThis project is an art performance that seeks to rethink imaginaries of multispecies surviv…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

SpaceHuman 2.0

SpaceHuman is a soft robotics device designed to facilitate the exploration of environments with reduced gravity in a view of democratizati…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Valentina Sumini · Joseph A. Paradiso +2 more
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +16 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

ELI: Electronic Life-detection Instrument

Life on Mars, if it exists, could have been transferred between Earth and Mars due to meteorite impacts. The Search for Extra-Terrestrial G…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Orbit Weaver

Gravity anchors all existence on Earth.It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is everywh…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Xin Liu
#design #agriculture #architecture +8 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Space Webs as Infrastructure for distributed sensor networks and other infrastructure on low gravity bodies

We study textiles and nets as a base form for growing infrastructure and allowing reconfigurable sensing on low gravity bodies (for instanc…

in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
Juliana Cherston · Paul Strohmeier
#design #architecture #art +7 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

The Telemetron

Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and during …

in Opera of the Future · Space Exploration Initiative
Nicole L'Huillier · Sands Fish +1 more
#robotics #design #architecture +13 more
Archived
Article Research

Feet on Earth, head in the stars

These five women at the MIT Media Lab are advancing aerospace science and research, driven by a love of our home planet.

via MIT Technology Review · Aug. 22, 2023
in Director's Office · Responsive Environments · Fluid Interfaces +4 more
#robotics #architecture #environment +9 more
Project Research

Enhancing well-being through low-frequency resonance: a parametric analysis of space geometry

Resonance at low frequencies strongly influences a room's perception of sound, which can enhance or deteriorate the acoustic experience. Pr…

in Signal Kinetics · Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Ahmed Allam
#design #architecture #environment
Project Research

Machine learning approach to design acoustic experiences

Machine learning in acoustics is an emerging field with great potential yet to be explored. Previous research includes predicting acoustic …

in Signal Kinetics · Opera of the Future · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI +1 more
Ahmed Allam · Nikhil Singh
#design #architecture #artificial intelligence +1 more
Article Research

Making movement visible

Media Lab alum Nell Breyer discusses her new work, “Where Lines Converge,” previously on view in Manhattan’s Central Synagogue.

via Arts at MIT · April 10, 2023
in Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#design #architecture #art +1 more
Article Research

Generative AI for makers: AI has truly arrived — and it’s here to help you make and craft

Personal Robots alum Stefania Druga and editor Keith Hammond explore the ways that crafters and makers can use generative AI techniques.

via MAKE: Magazine · Feb. 8, 2023
in Personal Robots · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
#design #architecture #art +4 more
Post Research

MAS.S64 City Sci-fi : student projects Spring 2023

Final projects created in MAS.S64 City Sci-Fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Future Cities.Students were prompted to …

May 23, 2023
in City Science
#design #architecture #art
Post Research

President of the University of Guadalajara talks hyper-technology and social responsibility in higher education

On June 8, 2023, a delegation from the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) visited the MIT Media Lab to meet with faculty and researchers rega…

July 12, 2023
in City Science
#design #human-computer interaction #agriculture +1 more
Project Research

Microgravity Extrusion

Traditional additive manufacturing processes, especially those that make use of liquid resin as the feedstock, are constrained by the gravi…

in Space Exploration Initiative
Ariel Ekblaw · Sean Auffinger +1 more
#robotics #architecture #art +12 more
Project Research

The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit

By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…

in Space Exploration Initiative
#robotics #architecture #art +14 more
Archived
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #social networks #computer vision +50 more
Not Accepting Applicants
Course Research

MAS.S64 - City Sci-fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Future Cities

This class is a hands-on workshop on fiction narrative and movie making.

MAS.S64 · with Kent Larson, Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor, Gabriela Bila Advincula
in City Science
#design #architecture #art +1 more
Article Research

MIT Museum Collection Highlights: Holography

Explore the MIT Museum's collection of holograms, which includes examples of the rainbow holograms developed by Stephen Benton.

via MIT Museum · March 20, 2023
in Spatial Imaging
#architecture #art #holography
Publication Research

Adaptive Virtual Neuroarchitecture

Jain, A., Maes, P., Sra, M. (2023). Adaptive Virtual Neuroarchitecture. In: Simeone, A., Weyers, B., Bialkova, S., Lindeman, R.W. (eds) Everyday Virtual and Augmented Reality. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05804-2_9

Chapter, Feb. 2023
in Fluid Interfaces
#design #virtual reality #human-computer interaction +1 more
Project Research

Two Mobility Futures 0∞

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an im…

in City Science
Carson Smuts · Gabriela Bila Advincula +8 more
#design #architecture #art +3 more
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