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People and intelligent machines in a creative, symbiotic loop
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
OctoStudio transforms how children use mobile devices, enabling them to create their own stories and games anytime anywhere. Children …
Today’s artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are changing how many people play, work, learn, and govern themselves. Due to this rapid …
Thank you for your interest in our Data Activism program. All available spots for this program have been filled. If you would li…
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people
We take as a starting point for our work the recent scholarship by Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice, in which she described design jus…
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
Can computer graphics algorithms be taught through drawing?In this prototypical activity book, we present the steps of four computer graphi…
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Designing Systems for Cognitive Support
Looking beyond smart cities
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Website of the project: https://www.neurafutures.com The installation is currently open to public starting September 25, 2023 at …
Project shares ways to create community around design equity, ethics, and justice.
Space Exploration Initiative
The new Center will provide music education to students across North Texas, in cooperation with the Media Lab's Opera of the Future group.
Enhancing human physical capability
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a thir…
The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the wo…
Learning Creative Learning is an online course and community of educators, designers, technologists, and tinkerers exploring creative learn…
Public libraries are one of most trusted public institutions in the U.S. and increasingly provide a broad range of education services, rang…
Mayor’s youth employment program brought local high schoolers to MIT this summer.
Several of our projects aim to support learning and creativity. While some systems focus on a specific skill to be strengthened, e.g.,…
Community Biotechnology
A Distance Learning Model for Global Laboratory-Based Synthetic Biology Education Synthetic Biology ( SynBio) tools hold the…
"Fab Lab" is an abbreviation for Fabrication Laboratory, a group of off-the-shelf, industrial-grade fabrication and electronics tools, wrap…
The Tidmarsh Living Observatory Portal is a research project that focuses on the design and fabrication of a pavilion that will genera…
The underrepresentation of minoritized groups, particularly African Americans, is the longstanding reality of computing fields. Computing h…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
Drawing++ Workshop: using drawing as a means of understanding computationIn this workshop participants explore computational concepts …
Professor Neil Gershenfeld tells MIT News that fab labs are now transitioning from providing access to tools to making the tools themselves.
Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…
An essential element of K-12 AI literacy is educating learners about the ethical and societal implications of AI systems. Previous work in …
Created by Media Lab PhD students Shruti Dhariwal and Manuj Dhariwal, CoCo is a digital learning platform that fosters collaboration.
On the ACM ByteCast podcast, Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes talks to host Rashmi Mohan about the passion that has shaped her career.
On an episode of the Unpacking Education podcast, Randi Williams (a PhD student in the Personal Robots research group) talks Day of AI.
Cynthia Breazeal, head of the Personal Robots research group, talks to Education Week about early opportunities for AI literacy.
In a study presented at CHI 2023, Media Lab alumni used Pringles & audio filters to explore the intersection of sound, flavor, & perception.
Joanne Leong. 2023. Using Generative AI to Cultivate Positive Emotions and Mindsets for Self-Development and Learning. XRDS 29, 3 (Spring 2023), 52–56. https://doi.org/10.1145/3589659
MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
CoCo is a new live co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remote set…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Public buildings account for the greatest energy demands in the Andorran economy. As part of the City Science Lab @Andorra, a team of scien…
“The work I’m doing is deeply rooted in the belief that you can plant seeds in people,” says graduate student Cecilé Sadler.
Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks
Global participation in MIT RAISE’s free K-12 program more than doubles in its second year.
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Media Lab PhD students Manuj Dhariwal + Shruti Dhariwal introduce a new paradigm of creative collaboration in digital learning environments
View photos from the Day of AI event this year, which happened on May 18.
This event congregated a community of educators around the world to celebrate and share class content using the Day of AI curriculum.
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Unhangout is an open source platform for running large-scale, participant-driven events online.Each event has a landing page, which we call…
Judging by the work of its alumni and faculty, MIT is an amazing place for learning. When I first arrived on campus, I wanted to better und…
An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
Unbreakout (beta) is a tool for participatory Zoom breakout rooms. Let your meeting attendees propose their own breakout discussion topics …
Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
This research presents the results of a study with 134 participants to explore the effects of learning from an AI-generated virtual in…
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
P. Pataranutaporn* J. Leong*, V. Danry*, A. Lawson, P. Maes, M. Sra. 2022. *Co-first authorship ”AI-Generated Virtual Instructors Based on Liked or Admired People Can Improve Motivation and Foster Positive Emotions for Learning” to appear in FIE 2022, October 8-11, Uppsala, Sweden.
Perceptual illusions have the power to change our abilities and behaviours. Prior research in virtual reality (VR) has shown that transport…
ScratchJr makes coding accessible to younger children (ages 5-7), enabling them to program their own interactive stories, games, and animat…
Spinoff Learning Beautiful develops education materials that encourage kids to explore computer science concepts through physical learning.
A pandemic-fueled transformation of the MIT course "How to Grow (Almost) Anything" leads to next steps in democratizing synthetic biology