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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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City Science Network

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
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Biomechatronics

Enhancing human physical capability
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The City Science Network empowers local communities to collaborate globally

The City Science Network is a collaboration of institutions + researchers sharing a the goal of enabling more livable, equitable communities
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Axol

A distributed sensing system for managing water resources in informal communities.
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
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Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
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Technologies Toolkit

Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Technologies Toolkit. This research aims to translate the knowle…
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Strengthening Community Data Engagement in Humanitarian Health Crisis: A reflection from Sierra Leone

In a post for the MIT Governance Lab, Media Lab grad student Leonard Francis Vibbi discusses his recent work in Sierra Leone.
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One man's inspiring journey to lift his country out of poverty

Media Lab alum David Sengeh, now the Minister of Education for Sierra Leone, talks about efforts to transform their educational system.
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Environment-Vulnerability-Decision-Technology Framework

One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques fro…
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
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Using Earth Observation-Informed Modeling to Inform Sustainable Development Decision-Making

Reid, Jack (2023). Using Earth Observation-Informed Modeling to Inform Sustainable Development Decision-Making (Doctoral dissertation). Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Inventing the future of digitally augmented objects and environments.
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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge
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Research Area | Rapid Fabrication and Integration of Medical Devices and Technologies

Dr. Shah and his research lab at MIT has significant expertise and motivation to bring problems from the clinic and society into the labora…
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Open Ocean

Open Ocean
Center for Civic Media
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Civic Media

Creating technology for social change
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Neil Gaikwad recognized by MIT and University of Chicago

Named Human Rights & Technology Fellow by MIT Center for International Studies, and a Rising Star by UChicago Center for Data & Computing.
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With(in)

With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a s…
How buildings and cities can become more intelligently responsive to the needs and desires of their inhabitants.
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PlusMinus

PlusMinus
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Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity

MLA Babio, Guadalupe. Nuclear, A Climate Opportunity: Investigating decentralized energy networks for new urban environments. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021.
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Informality Crowdsourced Database

Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Informality Crowdsourced Database. This platform …
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My Deep Sea, My Backyard

Seventy percent of nations have deep-sea environments within their maritime Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs), yet only 16 percent of them ar…
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Ocean Cultures

The Māori of Aotearoa (New Zealand) have a long and deep connection to their island and ocean ecosystem. Concepts such as rā…
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With(in): Three women, three informal settlements, and the rituals of the meal as a microcosm of urban life

Advincula, Larson 2021. With(in): Three women, three informal settlements, and the rituals of the meal as a microcosm of urban life.
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With(in)_book

With(in) book. 
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With(in)_homes

Gihan, Eva, and MamaG's homes.
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Special Meal

Only a few weeks before the trip to meet MamaG in Port Harcourt, we learned of her husband’s unexpected death. Our plans quickly shifted to…
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Gihan

Gihan moved to Ezbet Khairallah not long ago. Escaping from an abusive marriage, she bravely left home in upper Egypt with her three kids —…
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With(in) - Immersive Installation

With(in)captured a fragment of Eva, Gihan, MamaG and their communities’ stories. The nature of this work poses challenges for retelling the…
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COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviour

Countries and cities around the world have resorted to unprecedented mobility restrictions to combat COVID-19 transmission. Here we exploit…
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COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviour

Heroy Samuel, Loaiza Isabella, Pentland Alex and O’Clery Neave 2021COVID-19 policy analysis: labour structure dictates lockdown mobility behaviourJ. R. Soc. Interface.182020103520201035 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.1035
Center for Mobile Learning
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Modeling Migration
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Looking for a better future: modeling migrant mobility

Saa, I.L., Novak, M., Morales, A.J. et al. Looking for a better future: modeling migrant mobility. Appl Netw Sci 5, 70 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-020-00308-9
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New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.
How to build characters that have the everyday common sense, the ability to learn, and the sense of empathy that one finds in animals such a
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Hundred Dollar Laptop
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Digital Life
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Ethics

Ethics Initiative
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CE 2.0

CE 2.0
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Music, Mind and Machine

How to build intelligent music systems out of interacting audio-processing agents.
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President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone visits MIT

Public talk outlines ambitious plans to make his nation a hub for technology and innovation.
Communications Futures Program
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e-markets
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Future Storytelling
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Consumer Electronics Laboratory
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How software can act as an assistant to the user rather than a tool, by learning from interaction and by proactively anticipating the user's
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Intrepid

Every 98 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually abused. Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is murdered by her ro…
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Electronic Publishing

How to distill meaning from complex everyday experiences.
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1:1 Laptops: Learning with the Hundred-Dollar Laptop

Suppose that one could put a connected, portable computer into the hands of all the children of the world who lack access to the kind of ed…
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Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development

Industrial development is the process by which economies learn how to produce new products and services. But how do economies learn? And wh…
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Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development

Jian Gao, Bogang Jun, Alex Pentland, Tao Zhou, and Cesar A. Hidalgo. Collective Learning in China's Regional Economic Development. arXiv:1703.01369, 2017.
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Can technology help teach literacy in poor communities?

This article originally appeared in the MIT News. Visit the link for more details.For the past four years, researchers at MIT, Tufts Univer…
How people and objects can tell tales of their experience and learn from others as they navigate through the vast media fabric made up of intertwining storied threads.
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eRationality

How we can understand human behavior (rationality, semi-rationality, bounded rationality, and just plain irrationality) in day-to-day behaviors, and in particular in electronic environments.
How to give computers human-like intuition so they can better understand us.
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How to engage diverse audiences in creating their own technology by situating computation in new contexts and building tools to democratize engineering.
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