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Space Exploration Initiative
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
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Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
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View the main City Science Andorra project profile.
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Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and crea...
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Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Designing for, with, and by nature
Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering
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If we are unable to adapt to climate change, it may amplify the marginal gap between citizen need and government assistance.
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
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An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehic...
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Open Ocean
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The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...
Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Media Lab's Space Enabled research group, has received the GSC Graduate Teaching Award, an Institute A...
Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...
The Safecast has revolutionized citizen science.
SCHOOL, ENERGY AWARENESSUsing TerMITes in the Santa Coloma School in Andorra we want to help students understand the relation between the...
EEEeb Spring 2018: April 15, 29; May 13, 27; June 3. To register, please visit this link.Sponsored and run by members of ...
What counts here—first and last—is not so-called knowledge of so-called facts, but vision—seeing. Seeing here implies Schauen [to see] (a...
Move aside, smiley faces, clapping hands and dancing ladies. Emoji are finally ready to tackle serious issues....The project may be the f...
How well have humans adapted to the current climate, and how will we adapt to new climate complexities?This week, the Climate Conversatio...
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TreeSense, a sensory VR experience that allows users to experience the full lifecycle of a tree, was featured in the Global Grad Sh...
The Synthetic Apiary proposes a new kind of environment, bridging urban and organismic scales by exploring one of the most important orga...
The Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV) is an agile, on-demand, shared, and functionally hybrid tricycle.
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Designing systems that become experiences to transcend utility and usability
Nest caterpillars in your arms, and watch the days pass.
Anirudh Sharma was at a conference in India when he noticed black particles accumulating on his white shirt.
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Creating sociotechnical systems that shape our urban environments
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Virtual reality creates a new perspective in storytelling and engagement.
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Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
How to engineer and disseminate powerful, low-cost design and fabrication technologies at a grassroots level.
How to redefine and expand the conceptual framework and language of learning by creating new technologies and spheres of practice.
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