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Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence

Center for Civic Media

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Object-Based Media

Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies

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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature

Tapis Magique: A Choreomusical Interactive Carpet

Ancient textiles have played a major role in the social, economic, and religious structures of communities around the world. Iconic, indige…

Butlr's people-sensing platform is designed as Google Analytics for buildings

In Dezeen, learn more about Butlr, a spinoff co-founded by former Labbers Honghao Deng and Jiani Zeng.

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Digital Construction Platform

The Digital Construction Platform (DCP) is an experimental enabling technology for large-scale digital manufacturing. In contrast to the ty…

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MIT Media Lab trials modular tiles that self-assemble into "entirely novel type of space architecture"

Ariel Ekblaw talks about the TESSERAE project, which was tested on the Space Station during the recent Axiom Space AX-1 mission.

Personalized Performance-Optimization Platform (AttentivU - P-POP)

The environmental conditions of prolonged spaceflight pose significant psychological risks for astronauts. In particular, crews of future …

KnittedKeyboard II

Spanning from the early Musical Telegraph and Electronic Sackbut, to the late EMS Synthi AKS and Moog Synthesizers, electronic music and mu…

3 Questions: Ariel Ekblaw on building beautiful architecture in space

The TESSERAE project, a design for self-assembling space structures and habitats, has sent prototypes to the International Space Station.

With(in)

With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a s…

Window 0∞

How will new mobility patterns shape the built environment?

Ariel Ekblaw: Space Colonization and Self-Assembling Space Megastructures

Ariel Ekblaw talks about leading the Space Exploration Initiative, self-assembling space architecture, science fiction, + long-term thinking

Building a visual world

Article by cinematographer and visual artist Sean Webley

Love 0∞

How do new mobility patterns interfere relationships?

Two Mobility Futures - testing space

Prototyping and testing space of Two Mobility Futures 0∞.

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Glass II

Optically transparent and structurally sound, glass has played a significant role in the evolution of product and architectural design acro…

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Wanderers

The Wanderers were unveiled as part of the exhibition: ‘The Sixth Element: Exploring the Natural Beauty of 3D Printing' on display a…

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Gemini

Gemini—an acoustical “twin chaise"—spans multiple scales of the human existence extending from the warmth of the womb to the stretches of…

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Totems

Biodiversity on planet Earth is under momentous threat, with extinction rates estimated between 100 and 1,000 times their pre-human level. …

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Robotic cubes shapeshift in outer space

Self-reconfiguring ElectroVoxels use embedded electromagnets to test applications for space exploration.

How buildings and cities can become more intelligently responsive to the needs and desires of their inhabitants.

Ori’s partnership with Marriott Hotels, announced at CES this week

Spinoff Ori, co-founded by alum Hasier Larrea, has announced an agreement to partner with Marriott Hotels’ Design Lab.

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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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superpose - A connected experience of sound and space

The superpose installation mediates continuously changing wave phenomena within a space that are visible, audible, and react to the presenc…

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Gravity Proof: Speculating Cosmic Futures

Gravity Proof is a performance and mission to prepare and cook bread in space. Inspired by ancient recipes and archaeological bread re…

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Moon Village at Biennale Architettura 2021 | Life Beyond Earth

Life Beyond Earth is a multidisciplinary project that explores advanced space architecture concepts to enable humankind to live on the Moon.

Astronaut Ethnography

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…

A Scalable Networked Smart Sensate Skin

We have developed tightly coupled sensor network that tries to mimic some of the sensory characteristics of a natural skin. Developed in a …

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Publication Research

Electronic Textile Gaia: Ubiquitous Computational Substrates Across Geometric Scales

Wicaksono, I.*, Cherston, J.*, & Paradiso, J. A. (2021). Electronic Textile Gaia: Ubiquitous Computational Substrates Across Geometric Scales. IEEE Pervasive Computing.

Bio-Digital Wearables or Space Health Enhancement

Living in space could have significant physical and mental impacts on astronauts. Wearables have the potential to play a critical role in m…

Life in space: Preparing for an increasingly tangible reality

The Space Exploration Initiative supports research across and beyond MIT in two microgravity flights this spring.

‘Living’ space as the newest frontier: MIT’s Ariel Ekblaw to focus on self-assembling space architecture and habitats in CLS

Ariel Ekblaw spoke at the Chautauqua Institution about her novel space architecture ideas and a call for more dialogue on space ethics.

Course Research

MAS.S72. How to Write Academic Grant Proposals and Research Manuscripts

Description: Designed for grant proposal and research publication student writers, this course presents a general overview as well as …

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Six suborbital research payloads fly on Blue Origin New Shepard

The projects on board the Media Lab's first suborbital rocket flight

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Zero Gravity Flight 2019

This mission included participation from several departments at MIT and outside collaborators from across the globe.

Aguahoja

Programmable Water-Based Biocomposites for Digital Design and Fabrication across ScalesAguahoja is an exploration of nature’s design space.…

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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.

With(in)_book

With(in) book.

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Silk Pavilion II

What are radically sustainable methods for knitting, making and building in the age of the Anthropocene? How can humankind and members of o…

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Maiden Flight

Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductive …

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FIBERBOTS: Design of a multi-agent, fiber composite digital fabrication system

FIBERBOTS is a digital fabrication platform fusing cooperative robotic manufacturing with abilities to generate highly sophisticated materi…

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Water-Based Additive Manufacturing

This research presents water-based robotic fabrication as a design approach and enabling technology for additive manufacturing (AM) of biod…

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DCP: Digital Construction Environment

The Digital Construction Environment is the first architectural-scale structure fabricated with the Digital Construction Platform (DCP). U…

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Silk Pavilion

The Silk Pavilion explores the relationship between digital and biological fabrication on product and architectural scales.The primary st…

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Living Mushtari

How can we design relationships between the most primitive and the most sophisticated life forms? Can we design wearables embedded with s…

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Digital Construction Platform v.1

The Digital Construction Platform (DCP) is an in-progress research project consisting of a compound robotic arm system. The system comprise…

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With(in)_homes

Gihan, Eva, and MamaG's homes.

Eva

It’s easy to spot Eva as she makes her way through the dusty streets of Lomas. Her big blond hair, military boots and bold clothes, often s…

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 —…

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…

Norman Foster launches 'On Cities' masterclass series

A new masterclass video series from the Norman Foster Foundation features leading experts in the fields of architecture, urbanism, and more.

Biennale Architettura 2021 - Presentation

The 17th International Architecture Exhibition, “How will we live together?" includes work from the City Science research group.

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Media Lab @ MIT Space Week 2021

The Space Exploration Initiative and Space Enabled research group are participating in this year's Virtual MIT Space Week.

Resilience Across Scales

Resilience Across Scales is a research theme that encompasses the work of a few Media Lab Principal Investigators and their research groups…

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[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers, …

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New Media Medicine

How radical new collaborations will catalyze a revolution in health.

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Moral Machine

The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving car…

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Future Pulse. Living Observatory

"How can architects/urban developers use technology to foster the human/nature connection and improve our lives?" Glorianna Davenport

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Auto-Inflatables

Auto-inflatables explores the design space of self-inflating structures. By using chemical reactions as a source of carbon dioxide on-deman…

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