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Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Looking beyond smart cities
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Media Lab alum, Dr.Joy Buolamwini spoke to IEEE Spectrum about her work and her recent book, Unmasking AI.
Enhancing human physical capability
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop digital tools to enable more livable communities. In one project, the team…
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Historically, technology transfer has been associated with efforts to construct mechanisms allowing the exporting/importing of technol…
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Ultrasound is widely used for tissue imaging such as breast cancer diagnosis; however, fundamental challenges limit…
Is the placement of bike-share docks equitable?This interactive map explores the question visually.The map shows the addition of bike-share…
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
The increasing prevalence of large-scale labor aggregation platforms, worker analytics, and algorithmic decision-making by management raise…
People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s Cen…
City Science researchers are engaging in an exploratory process to understand, develop, and model a platform with a focus on the 15-minute …
Effective community engagement is critical in diverse organizations, such as school districts. However, current methods, including surveys,…
ResearchTechnical Paper | Executive Summary | GitHubAboutIntroductionOpenCBDC is an open source project to engage in co…
Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…
The Community Dialogue Data Trust (CODIDT) is an interactive digital platform designed to empower participants in facilitated dialogues wit…
The new device, which can be incorporated into a bra, could allow more frequent monitoring of patients at high risk for breast cancer.
Former Media Lab Professor Ethan Zuckerman speaks with The New York Times about the future of social media.
Digital Currency Initiative
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an im…
An MIT-led study reveals a core tension between the impulse to share news and to think about whether it is true.
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…
Public interest tax analyst Don Griswold introduces Tech for Transparency, inspired by Media Lab Professor Alex Pentland's research.
Transforming data into knowledge
The MIT School of Science and the MIT Libraries present the inaugural MIT Prize for Open Data to highlight the value of open data at MIT.
Alex Berke and Dan Calacci. 2022. Privacy Limitations of Interest-based Advertising on The Web: A Post-mortem Empirical Analysis of Google’s FLoC. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’22), November 7–11, 2022, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3548606.3560626
In September 2014, 150 parents, engineers, designers, and healthcare practitioners gathered at the MIT Media Lab for the "Make the Breast P…
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Creating technology for social change
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Master’s student Chelsi Cocking combines her love for computer science and design in her research and outreach efforts at the Media Lab.
Named Human Rights & Technology Fellow by MIT Center for International Studies, and a Rising Star by UChicago Center for Data & Computing.
LinkedOut aims to define and build solutions to facilitate societal reentry for formerly incarcerated individuals.In collaboration with the…
Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the impac…
The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is a…
Your social media. Your rules.Gobo is an experiment, not a startup. We’re building it to change the conversation on social media and imagin…
🚨Applications to the 2022 Co-Design Experience are now closed🚨OverviewThe development of technology in rural environments in Colombia is a…
There is a continuous and ubiquitous collection of precise, timestamped, geolocation data from apps and devices, being amassed by private f…
A database of community conversations in various Boston neighborhoods launches publicly on Monday.
Researchers enlist grassroots activists to engage “invisible” residents about the future of the city.
Collaboration with Federal Reserve Bank of Boston yields progress in understanding how a digital currency might be developed in the future.
Can machines make us better citizens and conversationalists? Deb Roy thinks so.
A new model shows that the more polarized and hyperconnected a social network is, the more likely misinformation will spread.
“Growing together, remaining apart: The role of digital technology in former guerrilla fighters’ social capital."
Debora de Castro Leal, Max Krüger, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Amparo Caicedo, Carlos Gómez, Dave Randall, and Volker Wulf. 2021. Growing Together, Remaining Apart: The Role of Digital Technology in Former Guerrilla Fighters' Social Capital. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW2, Article 331 (October 2021), 24 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3476072
How might we collect rich and complex data from community dialogues, analyze and make sense of that data? How might we design outputs …
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