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Creating human-AI symbiosis across scales and sensory mediums to enhance productivity, creativity, and wellbeing
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.
Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Engaging people in creative learning experiences
Exploring the essence of code as a creative medium
We build technologies that interface with the sleeping mind. We track different sleep-stages using brain activity, muscle tensio…
An immersive MIT Museum installation invites visitors into a shared dream world shaped by art, science, and Media Lab research.
Targeted dream incubation (TDI) is a methodology for guiding (or “incubating”) dreams towards specific themes. Please read the FAQ below to…
The Automatar is an intelligent AI-powered bass guitar born to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds. While the …
LIMITER is a new musical instrument designed to incorporate game-like elements into an interface for justly intonated and microtonal c…
People and intelligent machines in a creative loop
Set in 2034, After AGI follows Theos, a disillusioned AI engineer hiding in a bunker after the technology he helped build begins to fractur…
Loneliness is a growing and global issue that affects approximately a third of individuals in industrialized countries. Given the…
What if clothing and textiles emerged in situ—woven by robots around the body itself, shaped by anatomy, motion, and material behavio…
Looking beyond smart cities
A vision for human life on the MoonDesign as an Astronaut, presented at 19th International Architecture Exhibition,Intellige…
Invent new tangible and embodied interactions that inspire and engage people
What if public buildings could share our dreams, and reveal our intimate expressions of struggle and triumph? Inspired by the motto&nb…
OmniFiber is a reconfigurable fiber technology for movement-based interactions based on thin fluidic fiber actuators with closed-loop strai…
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Joseph Paradiso’s sensing research at MIT Media Lab bridges art, medicine, and ecology through wearable sensors and environmental monitoring
An annual celebration of learning, sharing, making, creating, and debating at the MIT Media Lab.
Organology: Real-Time Biometrics x Sound Synthesis October 19th @ 8:00 PMMIT Media Lab 3rd Floor AtriumWhat role does the body pl…
Neural audio synthesis methods now allow specifying ideas in natural language. However, these methods produce results that cannot be easily…
Designing Systems for Cognitive Augmentation
Designing across the scale, imagining a transformative future
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
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
Imaginary Atlas, Amazônia is an immersive installation and long-term research project that explores how Amazonian cities may evolve in a po…
A paper co-authored by Kimaya Lecamwasam explores how music and lullabies support infant and caregiver wellbeing worldwide.
Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation
The broadcast included a discussion of music and AI as well as a live demo of the AI system from Professor Machover’s FLOW Symphony.
Professor Tod Machover conducted the world premiere of FLOW Symphony at Seoul Arts Center. Scored for string orchestra and electronics, FLO…
This piece is part of the Imaginary Atlas, Amazônia project and combines traditional miriti wood sculpture with an electromechanical system…
With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a s…
Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is an immersive research project that explores how radically different mobility paradigms—near-zero movement and ne…
This piece is part of the Imaginary Atlas, Amazonia project and combines traditional miriti wood sculpture with an electromechanical system…
Our body and mind relate in ways which are extraordinarily enigmatic and seemingly incomprehensible. Recent findings exemplify this by show…
Will the city swallow the forest, or will the forest reclaim the city? Or can we find a third way?The 21st century is a critical momen…
Terrestrial Sensing
The MIT Wiesner Gallery presents PhD student Rebecca Lin’s work exploring mathematical abstraction, computation, and contemporary craft.
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society
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…
KnitworkVR is an immersive virtual experience designed to simulate the Living Knitwork Pavilion showcased at Burning Man, through the use o…
Enhancing human physical capability
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
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…
Perry Naseck, Lancelot Blanchard, and Jordan Rudess win 2025 MIDI Innovation Award for Jam_Bot, an AI-driven live performance system.
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.
Empowering communities through the life sciences + biotechnology
Three members of the Media Lab community have received grants as part of MIT CAST’s 2025–26 projects.
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-…
We propose a computational approach to preserve traditional dance as living cultural heritage, exploring the use of technology to capture k…
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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…