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Tangible Media

Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation

#robotics #design #virtual reality +59 more
Accepting Applicants
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +30 more
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Responsive Environments

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +66 more
Accepting Applicants
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Public Library Innovation Exchange

Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…

in ML Learning · Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio · Lifelong Kindergarten
J. Philipp Schmidt · Ada Ren-Mitchell +7 more
#robotics #design #art +6 more
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative

#robotics #design #virtual reality +68 more
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities

#robotics #design #social networks +67 more
Accepting Applicants
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Conformable Decoders

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

#robotics #design #computer vision +40 more
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Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio

#robotics #design #agriculture +11 more
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Personal Robots

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

#robotics #design #virtual reality +66 more
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

#robotics #design #social networks +41 more
Accepting Applicants
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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature

#robotics #design #architecture +34 more
Not Accepting Applicants
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Project Research

Digital Construction Platform

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

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman · Julian Leland +2 more
#robotics #architecture #construction
Archived
Post Research

Who am I?—taking a dive within the self

The 'Who' that I live from is a choice that I make. This essay looks critically at this choice, by diving into the QUESTion "Who am I?"

March 24, 2022
in Lifelong Kindergarten
#art #construction
Archived
Project Research

Glass II

Optically transparent and structurally sound, glass has played a significant role in the evolution of product and architectural design acro…

in Mediated Matter
Chikara Inamura · Giorgia Franchin +7 more
#design #architecture #art +6 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Synthetic Apiary

The Synthetic Apiary proposes a new kind of environment, bridging urban and organismic scales by exploring one of the most important organi…

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman · Jorge Duro-Royo +2 more
#bioengineering #construction #environment +2 more
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
Article Research

360° Transparency for Construction Sites Made Simple

Read the MIT Startup Exchange profile of Media Lab spinoff OpenSpace.

via MIT Startup Exchange · Aug. 10, 2021
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#construction #real estate #visualization +2 more
Post Research

Introducing: PLIX Inflatables!

The Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX) has recently released its latest creative learning activity: Inflatables!

June 11, 2021
in Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
#robotics #design #art +2 more
Project Research

Therms-Up!: DIY Inflatables and Interactive Materials by Upcycling Wasted Thermoplastic Bags

Therms-Up! is a DIY method of creating inflatables and prototyping interactive materials from wasted thermoplastic bags that easily found a…

in Tangible Media
Kyung Yun Choi · Hiroshi Ishii
#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +5 more
Project Research

Child-Driven, Robot-Guided Literacy Activity

 

in Personal Robots
Pedro Colon-Hernandez · Safinah Arshad Ali +2 more
#robotics #design #construction +5 more
Archived
Project Research

Silk Pavilion II

What are radically sustainable methods for knitting, making and building in the age of the Anthropocene? How can humankind and members of o…

in Mediated Matter
Christoph Bader · Sunanda Sharma +5 more
#design #architecture #art +5 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

FIBERBOTS: Design of a multi-agent, fiber composite digital fabrication system

FIBERBOTS is a digital fabrication platform fusing cooperative robotic manufacturing with abilities to generate highly sophisticated materi…

in Mediated Matter
Christoph Bader · Joao Pedro Goncalves Marins Costa +5 more
#robotics #architecture #construction +2 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

DCP: Digital Construction Environment

The Digital Construction Environment is the first architectural-scale structure fabricated with the Digital Construction Platform (DCP). U…

in Mediated Matter
Steven Keating · Julian Leland +3 more
#architecture #construction #storytelling +2 more
Archived
Archived
Project Research

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 comprise…

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman · Julian Leland +3 more
#robotics #architecture #construction
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
Article Research

Bringing construction projects to the digital world

The startup OpenSpace is using 360-degree cameras and computer vision to create comprehensive digital replicas of construction sites.

via MIT News · Oct. 21, 2020
in Media Lab Spinoffs
#computer vision #construction #technology
Project Research

SpeechBlocks

SpeechBlocks is a medium that allows children (4-5 years old) to engage in open-ended play with writing. They can build arbitrary compositi…

in Social Machines
Jim Gray · Ivan Sysoev +1 more
#design #construction #kids +5 more
Publication Research

Master Planning and Space Architecture for a Moon Village

Proceedings, Oct. 2019
in Responsive Environments · Space Exploration Initiative
#design #architecture #construction +1 more
Post Research

Meet the 2017 LEGO Papert Fellows

The LEGO Papert Fellowship program was officially launched in 2017.

April 22, 2020
in Lifelong Kindergarten · Personal Robots · Fluid Interfaces
#construction #kids #learning +3 more
Article Research

Neri Oxman grows tools for the future at new MoMA retrospective

“My team and I stand in the crossroads, challenging some of the processes that designers face at the intersection of biology and technology"

via The Architect's Newspaper · Feb. 27, 2020
in Mediated Matter
#design #architecture #art +3 more
Article Research

The most futuristic building in New York—currently on view at MoMA—wasn’t made by humans

To build a new pavilion in midtown Manhattan, the architect Neri Oxman employed 17,000 silkworms.

via Forbes · Feb. 24, 2020
in Mediated Matter
#design #architecture #art +3 more
Article Research

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.

via IEEE Spectrum · April 26, 2017
in Mediated Matter
#robotics #architecture #construction
Article Research

Neri Oxman 3D prints glass at an architectural scale

Glass II: 3D printing glass at the architectural scale.

via Architect magazine · May 17, 2017
in Mediated Matter
#design #architecture #art +2 more
Project Research

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 th…

Neil A. Gershenfeld · Matthew Carney
#design #architecture #construction
Publication Research

Biobeams: Functionally Graded Rapid Fabrication

Steven J. Keating, Elizabeth Tsai, Neri Oxman. CRC Press, Jun 6, 2013

Chapter, June 2016
in Mediated Matter
#design #construction #manufacturing

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