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Background and MotivationGeometric patterns are a prominent form of abstract ornamentation found throughout the Islamic world, characteriz…
Designing, prototyping, and building the artifacts of our sci-fi space future
Raechel Walker, Brady Cruse, Aisha Cora, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2025. Redefining Data Science: Where Transformative Youth Organizing Meets Arts-Based Abolitionist Education. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT 2025). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 78–89. https://doi.org
What does it take to get a group of strangers to open up?DisCourse is a curated dinner series that transforms a meal between strangers int…
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
Enhancing human physical capability
People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
Looking beyond smart cities
Professor Danielle Wood and alum Dr. Joy Buolamwini are among those featured in The Genius Within art exhibition in Kendall Square.
Advancing human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Explore 563 trillion possible 7×7 grids on an infinite canvas, embedding MIT Media Lab's entire visual identity system.
Finding Your Voice investigates the complexities of self-voice recognition and agency, focusing on the neurological processes that shape ho…
The Imaginary Atlas, Brazil explores new urban futures for cities in the heart of Brazil’s forests. In partnership with traditional communi…
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
Perry Naseck, Lancelot Blanchard, and Jordan Rudess win 2025 MIDI Innovation Award for Jam_Bot, an AI-driven live performance system.
Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
Xin Liu and Chloe Bensahel are finalists in the Art and Science category at the 2025 Falling Walls Science Summit.
Briët, Kayla. Return Paths: Tracing the Sound of Black, Asian, and Indigenous Technologies. Master’s Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, 2025.
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Three members of the Media Lab community have received grants as part of MIT CAST’s 2025–26 projects.
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Co-creating future imaginaries in the heart of the Amazon, blending fieldwork, local knowledge, and new media for creative expression.
The skirt pictured was designed using an encoding-decoding framework for Islamic art-inspired “constellation patterns,” developed by Rebecc…
A series of explorations in integrated development environments (IDEs) for graphical creative coding.
AI interfaces have evolved, yet they remain largely confined to chat and voice. Gamification offers a new avenue for research and education…
Accepted at UIST25With rising climate change and e-waste, BioLIG introduces a technique to functionalize bio-based materials through laser-…
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
Schon, Ana. 2025. “Performing Performance Spaces: Expressing Context in Live Music.” Master’s Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts and Sciences.
On September 21st, 2024, we concluded a year-long collaboration with GRAMMY-winning keyboardist Jordan Rudess, culminating in a sold-out pe…
Char Stiles debuted "Fastest Integer Multiplier" at Amant Gallery's "For Your Reference." This performance used a custom tool CARL&nbs…
We introduce the Generic Pan Tilt, an open-source, two-axis motion control platform designed for use in entertainment, art, and research. …
This project seeks to explore and further develop the concept of "Symbiotic Virtuosity," where artificial intelligence (AI) and human music…
Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess’s collaboration with the Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI “jam_bot” + the artist
Blanchard, Lancelot*, Perry Naseck*, Eran Egozy, and Joseph A. Paradiso. 2024. “Developing Symbiotic Virtuosity: AI-Augmented Musical Instruments and Their Use in Live Music Performances.” An MIT Exploration of Generative AI, September. https://doi.org/10.21428/e4baedd9.69c11de7.
Throughout history, our relationships with the places we inhabit have been inseparable from their auditory imprints, like reverberation in …
MIT concert, featuring electronic and computer-generated music, was a part of the 2025 International Computer Music Conference.
Raechel Walker and Cynthia Breazeal awarded Best Paper at RESPECT 2025 for work linking data science, youth organizing, and education.
As of 2020, approximately 40 million adults, or 18.1% percent of the adult population, in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders, …
Advancements in machine learning have recently enabled the hyper-realistic synthesis of prose, images, audio and video data, in what is ref…
Loneliness is a growing and global issue that affects approximately a third of individuals in industrialized countries. Given the…
Anirudh Sharma was at a conference in India when he noticed black particles accumulating on his white shirt.
The ninth edition of the Teaching with Digital Technology Awards includes MIT Media Lab instructor Zachary Lieberman.
Advincula, Larson 2021. With(in): Three women, three informal settlements, and the rituals of the meal as a microcosm of urban life.
MicroPET is an autonomous payload for enzymatic reactions and microbial cultivation with fully programmable serial passaging and sampl…
What if we could look at the entire history of humanity at once? Pantheon aims to create a data-driven view of history by collecting, …
Lecamwasam, K., Bartleet, B. L., Ortiz, T., & Koebner, I. (2025). Promoting the well-being of infants and caregivers through music: insights from the lullaby project’s international convening. Arts & Health, 1-11.
Kimaya Lecamwasam. 2024. The Distance Between Us: Exploring the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit Through the Soundscape of Biometric Monitoring. In Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference: Explorations in Sonic Cultures (AM '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 533–542. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678299.3678355
Lecamwasam, K. and Chaudhuri, T.R. (2025). Exploring listeners' perceptions of AI-generated and human-composed music for functional emotional applications. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.02856
For the MIT Visiting Artist Chloé Bensahel, who has collaborated with the Media Lab's Future Sketches group, fabric itself tells the story.
The Space Exploration Initiative charters an annual ZERO-G parabolic flight for 10-15 projects and 25 researchers across MIT Media Lab, sev…
Zachary Lieberman receives 2025 Digital Art Award for his pioneering creative coding and innovation in new media art.
Exhibition: The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology Location: Palazzo Diedo, Venezia | May 10 – November 23, 2025Earth and Planetary…
Climate Intelligence focuses on the integration of cutting-edge technologies and systems thinking to address critical climate challenges.&n…
With a launch date no earlier than February 26, 2025, three MIT research payloads aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will travel to the moon
A selection of recent press coverage on the Critical Matter research group's newest project , Gaze to the Stars.
Prof. Craig Carter’s precision design for a student-led project now on the moon encodes messages from around the world on a silicon wafer
