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2023 Burning Man Arts"Once upon a time, in the heart of the Black Rock City desert, a knitted shade structure seamlessly melded ancient an…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Wax-based hybrid rocket propellants, including paraffin (common candlewax) and beeswax show promise as high-performing hybrid rocket propel…
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will enscon…
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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Machine learning in acoustics is an emerging field with great potential yet to be explored. Previous research includes predicting acoustic …
The first in a series of sculptures that capture natural light patterns over time using computer vision.Investigating stories and experienc…
The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…
Traditional additive manufacturing processes, especially those that make use of liquid resin as the feedstock, are constrained by the gravi…
By Rachel BellisleOverview:The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS or “Skinsuit”) is an intravehicular activity suit for astronau…
Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an im…
An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehicle…
SensorNets: Towards Reconfigurable Multifunctional Fine-grained Soft and Stretchable Electronic Skins.SensorNets is a bioin…
Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…
The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …
Spanning from the early Musical Telegraph and Electronic Sackbut, to the late EMS Synthi AKS and Moog Synthesizers, electronic music and mu…
With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a s…
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
Our journeys off-world have taught us just as much about humanity as the harsh environment of space. For the past 20 years, we have had a c…
Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…
Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design space.…
Resilience Across Scales is a research theme that encompasses the work of a few Media Lab Principal Investigators and their research groups…
As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, …
The Mediated Atmosphere project envisions a smart office that is capable of dynamically transforming itself to enhance occupants' work expe…
Virtual CityScope Champs-Élysées is an interactive and immersive platform that explores the future of Paris’ most important street.
Proxymix is a visualization tool to understand the influence of spatial configuration on human collaboration. This agent-based model at the…
How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design visu…
CityScope Volpe is demonstrating most of the urban planning, analysis, and prediction features developed for the CityScope project. The sit…
An environment of plants and mirrors that extends beyond the terrarium walls.
MoCho (short for "Mobility Choices") is a CityScope module focused on mobility choices and societal impacts. This tool helps pred…
This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for th…
The esc-Pod (or Escape Pod) is an exploratory platform for researchers investigating moments of refuge within our bustling work lives…
What is FindingPlaces?In reaction to the sudden arrival of tens of thousands of refugees in the city of Hamburg (DE) in 2015, the Lord Mayo…
As we generally experience on earth, there is no space without sound and there is no sound without space. Building on the understanding of …
View the main City Science Andorra project profile.
An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is outd…
In architecture, the building skin is the primary interface for mediating the environment of the external with the internal. But today, thi…
Developed by Ira Winder with the MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics, the model seeks to use real population data and create a simu…
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Digital Materials are a way of designing and manufacturing. Rather than building large, monolithic, single-use components, we discretize th…