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Looking beyond smart cities
Converting the patterns of nature and the human body into beneficial signals and energy
Space Exploration Initiative
Ekblaw, A. and Paradiso, J.A., "Self-assembling Space Architecture: tessellated shell structures for space habitats," In AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, Smart/Adaptable Deployable Structures (p. 0481).
The future of human habitation in space, from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to planetary systems far beyond, lies in self-assembling, adaptive, a...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
AlterEgo is a non-invasive, wearable, peripheral neural interface that allows humans to converse in natural language with mach...
Scratch is a programming language and online community that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations—a...
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Transforming data into knowledge
Creating technology for social change
Enhancing human physical capability
Designing wearable systems for cognitive enhancement and personal development
Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
An NYC exhibit imagines driverless buses and mobile medical units resembling Popemobiles.
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Designing for, with, and by nature
Ride-sharing, social media, artificial intelligence. These are examples of socially-beneficial, net-positive technologies that have shown...
Exploring new forms of social justice through art
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments
While plants at first glance look like static things, they are in fact very busy transmitting bio-electrochemical signals.
Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Advancing Wellbeing
Code Next : Cultural Resonation
Food in space has moved beyond that which is simply developed down on Earth for space purposes. A new food culture will emerge as a resul...
The human experience of food extends far beyond that of mere nourishment. Debriefs with astronauts tell us that food is a key, creat...
“Music is not limited to the world of sound. There exists a music of the visual world.”—Oskar Fischinger, 1951.Almost 70 years ago, when...
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
The increasing geographical separation and technological divide between generations have made it more difficult for older adults to inter...
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...
ScratchBit is an effort to enable children to create more seamlessly in both the physical and digital world by creating a dedicated physi...
Community Biotechnology
Cosmetics essentially diffract and scatter light in a way that makes the wearer appear different to the naked eye. In this project we pro...
Optically transparent and structurally sound, glass has played a significant role in the evolution of product and architectural design ac...
Interaction Design category
Castelló Ferrer E. et al. (2019) Personal Food Computer: A New Device for Controlled-Environment Agriculture. In: Arai K., Bhatia R., Kapoor S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018. FTC 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 881. Springer, Cham
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
State-of-the art liquid handling systems are generally pump-driven systems connected with valves and tubes. These systems are manually a...
This is a joint proposal from graduate students Vik Parthiban (Media Lab) and Andrew Spielberg (MIT CSAIL, Distributed Robotics Laborator...
HyperCubes is an augmented reality platform to help children understand computational concepts drawn from their physical surroundings, fr...
An interface for smashing filter bubbles, Panorama is built to allow open, transparent, and collaborative exploration of news from a...
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Philippa Mothersill & V. Michael Bove Jr. (2018) An Ontology of Computational Tools for Design Activities, Proceedings of DRS2018 International Conference, 25–28 June 2018, Limerick, Ireland, p1261-1277, DOI: 10.21606/dma.2018.456
Voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are increasingly becoming present in domestic environments. ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents in an embodied form, such as Jibo, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are increasingly becoming part of o...
kinetiX is a transformable material featuring a design that resembles a cellular structure. It consists of rigid plates or rods and elast...
Enhancing mobile life through improved user interactions
Winner and finalists in Fast Company's 2018 awards
Xin Liu discusses the Space Exploration Initiative's upcoming arts exhibition at Ars Electronica
We present a multimaterial voxel-printing method enabling the physical visualization of data sets commonly associated with scientific ima...
Today, the environments that humans occupy in space are designed for survival. Humans are carefully shuttled to and from space, and durin...
Gravity is the anchor of all existences on earth, pulling the chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even ...
Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
E.L. Doubrovski, Elizabeth Tsai, D. Dikovsky, J.M.P. Geraedts, Hugh Herr, Neri Oxman
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Embodied voice-based agents, such as Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, and Jibo, are becoming increasingly present in the home environment. For...
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new w...
Games are a uniquely human endeavour, reducing stress and supporting mental well-being. Astronauts aboard the ISS have created their own ...
Update: A trigger system has been implemented to enable users to play the cube in real time and explore interactive ways to compose space...
For more on the Space Exploration Initiative @TNW2018, you can read the full article, "Making Star Wars a Reality through Design Thinking...
Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Media Lab's Space Enabled research group, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute A...