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Scratch Memories is a dynamically generated, personalized web-based visualization that celebrates a Scratcher’s journey by highlighting t...
Creating technology for social change
Designing for, with, and by nature
It’s easy to get into a slump at work. But a tool from MIT Media Lab offers a simple way to spark inspiration through random–and often no...
Auto-inflatables explores the design space of self-inflating structures. By using chemical reactions as a source of carbon dioxide on-dem...
Enabling dynamic, evolving places that respond to the complexities of life
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...
design(human)design is a tool that builds on insights about the design process inspired by research carried out at IDEO Cambridge. The id...
The increasing geographical separation and the technological divide has made it more difficult for elders to interact with their families. ...
Space Exploration
Understanding and empowering human networks
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Integrating digital interfaces more naturally into our physical lives, enabling insight, inspiration, and interpersonal connections
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
Creating scalable technologies that evolve with user inventiveness
Scratch is a programming language and online community that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, and animations–a...
Community Biotechnology Initiative
Multimodal textile sensate media as an expressive and deformable musical interfaceIn the area of intelligent textiles, we are exploring a...
Wicaksono, I and Paradiso, J.A."FabricKeyboard: Multimodal Textile Sensate Media as an Expressive and Deformable Musical Interface ", New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) May 15-19, 2017. Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark.
Anki collaborates with the MIT Scratch Team to bring robotics programming to kids.
È un’interfaccia collegabile a computer e sintetizzatori, è responsive come un pad e suonabile quanto una primordiale tastiera.
Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments
Textile in G Major
In a new project from MIT Media Lab, the FabricKeyboard is an instrument you play by pressing, twisting, pulling and stretching.
Glass II: 3D printing glass at the architectural scale.
Completely unexpected moments of expression and creativity can spring from the humble tools we design.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
We developed a concept of transformative appetite, where edible 2D films made of common food materials (protein, cellulose or starch) can...
The reproductive organs of the female body have long been a site of contention, where opposing ideologies in religion, politics, and cult...
Transdisciplinary artist Ani Liu spoke to us about her project as commentary on the state of reproductive rights today.
On April 26, 2017, Erhardt Graeff spoke about "Designing for Monitorial Citizenship" at The Impact of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC...
Head of MIT Media Lab's Mediated Matter research group teamed up with Björk to create 3D-printed wearables of the singer's face
Judith Amores and Pattie Maes. 2017. Essence: Olfactory Interfaces for Unconscious Influence of Mood and Cognitive Performance. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, Denver, CO, USA. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026004
The sense of smell is perhaps the most pervasive of all senses, but it is also one of the least understood and least exploited in HCI. We...
The Platform Optically transparent and structurally sound, glass has played a significant role in the evolution of product and archi...
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Vast regions of the world are unmapped by commercial services, and communities living there are digitally invisible. Visible Communities...
I am currently creating perfumes that capture the smell of individuals who have emotional significance to me. An exploration in the use ...
Code Next
The City Symphony project is a recent Opera of the Future initiative that brings creative musical participation to everyone, while encour...
The MIT Media Lab collaborated with London-based theater group Punchdrunk to create an online platform connected to their New York City p...
Fensadense is a new work for 10-piece ensemble composed by Tod Machover, commissioned for the Lucerne Festival in summer 2015. The projec...
Seamlessly coupling the worlds of bits and atoms by giving dynamic physical form to digital information and computation
Digital Materials are a way of designing and manufacturing. Rather than building large, monolithic, single-use components, we discretize ...
Steven J. Keating, Elizabeth Tsai, Neri Oxman. CRC Press, Jun 6, 2013
Even when it is not executed perfectly, theater can stir a range of feelings, from boundless elation to existential despair.
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We want to empower developers to build great creative learning apps for kids.
Architect
ScratchJr makes coding accessible to younger children (ages 5-7), enabling them to program their own interactive stories, games, and anim...
Scratch Pad is an effort to enable children to create more seamlessly in both the physical and digital world by creating a dedicated phys...
Since the release of Scratch in 2007, young people around the world have programmed and shared more than 15 million Scratch projects . Th...
Whether or not we're experts in the design language of objects, we have an unconscious understanding of the emotional character of their ...
Ever heard of 'remote and real world interconnected theatrical immersion'? Punchdrunk's Peter Higgin explains all
Come with me. I've got something to show you.
The use of data-driven methods to examine dynamic spaces, relationships, and mechanisms within an urban environment frames the city as a ...
Rottlace is a family of masks designed for Icelandic singer-songwriter Bjork. Inspired by Bjork's most recent album Vulnicura the Mediate...
Novel technologies for Additive Manufacturing are enabling design and production at nature’s scale. We can seamlessly vary the physical p...
The Lifelong Kindergarten group is collaborating with the Museum of Science in Boston to develop materials and workshops that engage youn...
The design process is no longer limited to one group of individuals, as number, level, and cost make tools ever more accessible. As we mo...