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Imaginary Atlas, Amazonia

Imaginary Atlas, Amazônia is an immersive installation and long-term research project that explores how Amazonian cities may evolve in a po…
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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
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Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
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City Science

Looking beyond smart cities
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THEME | Urban Futures of the Amazon

Will the city swallow the forest, or will the forest reclaim the city? Or can we find a third way?The 21st century is a critical momen…
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Fluid Interfaces

Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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Space Exploration Initiative

Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
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CollarID

Global biodiversity faces threats from climate change and human disturbance, which affect many species, especially large predators. These t…
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Tangible Media

Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
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Future Sketches

Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
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Me, Future Forest

Co-creating future imaginaries in the heart of the Amazon, blending fieldwork, local knowledge, and new media for creative expression.
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Ferreira Penna Scientific Station

Ferreira Penna Scientific Station. Caxiuanã National Forest, State of Para, Brazil.
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Future You: An Interactive Digital Twin System for Self-Reflection and Personal Growth

​Say hello to FutureYou!Imagine stepping into a time machine and having a conversation with your future self. What would you ask? What unex…
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BioLIG

Accepted at UIST25With rising climate change and e-waste, BioLIG introduces a technique to functionalize bio-based materials through laser-…
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BuzzCam

Protecting biodiversity with acoustic and visual sensing.The South American Bombus dahlbomii is one of the largest bee species in the world…
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Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards: Media Lab Honorees

Media Lab projects honored in Fast Company's 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards.
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Long Range Ocean Connectivity at Ultra-Low Power

Van-Atta Acoustic Backscatter (VAB) is the first technology for ultra-low-power underwater networking and communication, which can transmit…
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Signal Kinetics

Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
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Urban Mining & Regenerative E-Waste Ecosystems

How can we establish nurturing and circular relationships for informal settlements and allow regenerative ecosystems to envision urban…
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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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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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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
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Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each project…
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AirSpecs

The quality of the air we inhale affects our physical well-being, our mental performance, and our emotional state. Yet, most of us are unaw…
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Developing wearables and environmental sensor systems for studying ecosystems

For ACM Crossroads, Cathy Fang talks to fellow Media Lab student Patrick Chwalek about his work developing sensor systems.
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These mobile games are for the birds

Alum Rébecca Kleinberger (Opera of the Future) considers ways of building games that work for birds' unique needs.
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I know how the caged bird jams

Media Lab alum Rébecca Kleinberger, who’s now a professor at Northeastern University, talks about her work on sonic enrichment in zoos.
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Sonic enrichment at the zoo

This project is a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and the San Diego Zoo to design and build interactive sonic enrichment systems fo…
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MAS.S66 - City Sci-fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Ecology Futures

City Sci-fi  // Fall 2023 A City Science workshopFIRST CLASS:    September 13th (WED) - 2pm, E15-359Instructors:&n…
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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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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature
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JoyBranch

The Joy Branch project explores different user interfaces to allow parrots to shape their sonic environment.  Animal agency—contr…
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Rébecca Kleinberger, From DJ Macaw to Video-Flocking: Leveraging audio technology for animal’s social and cognitive enrichment

Alum Rébecca Kleinberger discusses her work at the intersection of new technology, animal-computer interaction, and the sonic environment.
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Before humans ate chickens, we treasured them as exotic pets

"The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week" dives into research by alum Rébecca Kleinberger showing that parrots seem to enjoy video chats.
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Aguahoja III

Aguahoja III expands the capabilities of a broad library of sustainable, organic 3D materials with generative patterns that countervail str…
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Battery-free wireless underwater camera

More than 95% of the ocean has never been observed by humans, even though the ocean plays the largest role in the world's climate system, h…
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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
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The Networked Sensory Landscape: Capturing and Experiencing Ecological Change Across Scales

Mayton, Brian, et al. "The networked sensory landscape: Capturing and experiencing ecological change across scales." PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 26.2 (2017): 182-209.
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Polly Wants a Video Chat

Emily Anthes reports on research by Media Lab alum Rébecca Kleinberger and colleagues showing that parrots enjoy videochatting.
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Battery-free wireless underwater camera featured as a research highlight in Nature Electronics

The Signal Kinetics lab's underwater camera project was chosen as a research highlight in the current issue of Nature Electronics
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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
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Neil Gaikwad chosen as a 2019 Facebook Fellow

Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.
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Living Observatory: Sensor networks for documenting and experiencing ecology

Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectivel…
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Low-power wireless environmental sensor network

Tidmarsh is a 600-acre former cranberry farm near Plymouth, MA that has undergone a restoration to wetland. We have instrumented the site w…
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Fresh takes on "sustainability"—except call it ecology

Neri Oxman, Abrima Erwiah, Tracy Reese, Gabriela Hearst, Eileen Fisher, Karina Givargisoff addressed the issue at UN Women USA event.
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Every city needs healthy honey bees

Noah Wilson-Rich suggests that urban beekeeping might play a role in revitalizing both a city and a species.
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How you can help save the bees, one hive at a time

Bees are dying off in record numbers, but ecologist Noah Wilson-Rich is interested in something else: Where are bees healthy and thriving?
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City as Classroom, City as Laboratory

Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. However, shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel lie unique ecosyst…
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Living Observatory Installation: A Transductive Encounter with Ecology

In the Living Observatory installation at the Other Festival, we invite participants into a transductive encounter with a wetland environme…
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Field Experimentation in Boston's Intertidal Zone

The Intertidal Experimentation Workshop will take place September 29 and 30 (9am to 2pm) at the MIT Media Lab, open to students ages 8-14. …
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This city is a classroom

Avery Normandin and Devora Najjar are on a mission to build literacy and appreciation for urban ecology.
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Ecology, Evolution, and Engineering for Empowered Brains

EEEeb Spring 2019:  Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this link.…
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Live-streaming a marshland for fun—and science

Researchers live-stream data in Tidmarsh Wildlife Sanctuary with the hopes of better understanding wildlife restoration techniques.
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Deep Urban Interaction

Analyze and visualize urban interaction with computer vision and deep neural net. 
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Hands-On Ecology: Fostering Neuroinclusivity in STEM Education

What counts here—first and last—is not so-called knowledge of so-called facts, but vision—seeing. Seeing here implies Schauen [to see] (as …
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The ‘rewilding’ of a century-old cranberry bog

The alewife, a type of river herring, wriggled against the current, a 10-inch streak that disappeared from view as it rounded a bend in the…
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Secure Sharing of Wildlife Data

Leveraging the power of platforms, big data, and advanced analytics for species protection and the public good in a privacy-preserving, sca…