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Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
This project transforms light into glass sculptures. I developed a software systems to capture photographs of sunlight moving th…
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Looking beyond smart cities
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Behnaz Farahi joins the MIT Media Lab's Program in Media Arts and Sciences (MAS) as Assistant Professor, Transformative…
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Cody Paige, MIT AeroAstro Contributors: Ferrous Ward, MIT AeroAstro; Don Derek Haddad, ResEnv; Jess Todd, MIT…
August 4 – 7 (SUN – TUE), 20249–11:00pm EDTThis is an online 4-day workshop consisting of software tutorials and rapid prototyping. P…
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
The Space Exploration Initiative’s 2022 microgravity flight features lunar-specific payloads in advance of an upcoming moon mission
The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
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…
To sustain long term human presence on the moon, the problem of exposure to ionizing radiation must be addressed to protect astronauts’ lon…
The lunar Navigation and Observation Mobile Architecture Design (lunarNOMAD) is a modular inflatable mobile science laboratory. lunarNOMAD …
With the growing presence of commercial spaceflight and NASA’s Lunar Artemis program, plans to establish a permanent lunar presence are in …
With NASA planning permanent bases in space and on the moon, MIT students develop prototypes for habitats far from planet Earth.
By Martin NisserThe ability to deploy large space structures is key to enabling long-duration and long-distance space missions, supporting …
The Design
Our journeys off-world have taught us just as much about humanity as the harsh environment of space. For the past 20 years, we have had a c…
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…
Beyond the Cradle
COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst for reimagining urban spaces and emphasized the need for walkable, life-work balanced coummunities.&…
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…
Final projects created in MAS.S66 City Sci-Fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Ecology Futures, taught in Fall 20…
City Sci-fi // Fall 2023 A City Science workshopFIRST CLASS: September 13th (WED) - 2pm, E15-359Instructors:&n…
Resonance at low frequencies strongly influences a room's perception of sound, which can enhance or deteriorate the acoustic experience. Pr…
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Designing for, with, and by nature
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
The Space Enabled Research Group is exploring the potential of using beeswax and candle wax as potential fuels for satellites in space. Bee…
Final projects created in MAS.S64 City Sci-Fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Future Cities.Students were prompted to …
Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design space.…
Engineering at the limits of complexity with molecular-scale parts
Learn about the Living Knitwork Pavilion: an interactive architectural installation that combined textile arts + engineering at Burning Man.
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
Researchers at the MIT Center for Bits + Atoms have created plate lattices that are lighter than cork and highly customizable.
Media Lab PhD student Irmandy Wicaksono reflects on bringing The Living Knitwork Pavilion to Burning Man.
EBIFA (Everything Beautiful Is Far Away) is a crystalline robotic device that carried a tooth to outer space. EBIFA's form and fu…
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new wor…
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…
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…
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will enscon…
Aguahoja III expands the capabilities of a broad library of sustainable, organic 3D materials with generative patterns that countervail str…
Three-dimensional Digital Knitting of Intelligent Textile Sensor for Activity Recognition and Biomechanical MonitoringWe present an ap…
In recent years, there has been an increase in low-cost and open-source electronic and chemical sensors that hobbyists, concerned citizens,…
In 2015, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), Jan Wörner, introduced the concept of the “Moon Village.” Inspired by the…
Overview: The outermost skin of a space-based structure is designed using materials known to protect against the harsh elements of space. S…