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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

#robotics #design #human-computer interaction +59 more
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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

#robotics #design #social networks +80 more
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Responsive Environments

Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks

#robotics #design #social networks +77 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Decentralized Society

Decentralized Society | Architecting the new internet for the good of the people

#robotics #design #social networks +85 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI

Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience

#robotics #design #social networks +149 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing

#robotics #design #social networks +134 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in

#robotics #design #social networks +144 more
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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity

#robotics #design #social networks +136 more
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Mediated Matter

Designing for, with, and by nature

#robotics #design #architecture +34 more
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MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society

#robotics #design #social networks +50 more
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Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection

#robotics #design #social networks +53 more
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Liquid Learning

Continuing the work of Liquid Movies, we introduce Liquid Learning, an extension for not simply recommending videos but encouraging people …

in Viral Communications · Media Lab Research Theme: Life with AI · Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity
Erick Oduniyi
#design #computer vision #interfaces +1 more
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Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

#design #social networks #computer vision +50 more
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Article Research

MIT welcomes eight MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2022-23

MLK Jr. Visiting Professors and Scholars will enhance and enrich the MIT community through engagement with students and faculty.

via MIT News · July 14, 2022
in Space Enabled
#art #music #space +3 more
Article Research

Foundations Provide Crucial Support for Novel Ideas

In MIT Spectrum, Gladys Ngetich of the Space Enabled research group discusses her passion for math and physics and her road to MIT.

via MIT Spectrum · June 17, 2022
in Space Enabled
#environment #space #engineering +1 more
Article Research

From modeling quantum devices to political systems

MIT senior Sihao Huang describes his experience working with Alex Siegenfeld towards the emerging field of complex systems science.

via MIT News · Feb. 8, 2022
in MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#government #politics #social science +2 more
Project Research

Soundscape Resynthesis

Sound and space are fundamentally intertwined, at both a physical and perceptual level. Sound radiates from vibrating materials, filling …

in Responsive Environments
Spencer Russell
#robotics #design #environment +8 more
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Post Research

Meet the 2017 LEGO Papert Fellows

The LEGO Papert Fellowship program was officially launched in 2017.

April 22, 2020
in Lifelong Kindergarten · Personal Robots · Fluid Interfaces
#construction #kids #learning + teaching +3 more
Article Research

Study uses physics to explain democratic elections

US elections have become more “unstable,” sometimes swinging in the opposite direction from the greater electorate’s preferences.

via MIT News · Jan. 21, 2020
in Social Machines
#government #politics #social science +1 more

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