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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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Lifelong Kindergarten

Engaging people in creative learning experiences
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Responsive Environments

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

Designing for, with, and by nature
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Personal Robots

Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
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Conformable Decoders

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

Designing systems for cognitive enhancement
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Space Exploration Initiative

Space Exploration Initiative
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Tangible Media

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

Digital Construction Platform

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

Master Planning and Space Architecture for a Moon Village
Post Research

Meet the 2017 LEGO Papert Fellows

The LEGO Papert Fellowship program was officially launched in 2017.
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...
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"
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.
Project Research

Glass II

Optically transparent and structurally sound, glass has played a significant role in the evolution of product and architectural design ac...
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 t...
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 ...
Project Research

DCP: Digital Construction Environment

The Digital Construction Environment is the first architectural-scale structure fabricated with the Digital Construction Platform (DCP). ...
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 mate...
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 orga...
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.
Article Research

Neri Oxman 3D prints glass at an architectural scale

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

Biobeams: Functionally Graded Rapid Fabrication

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