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Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
Looking beyond smart cities
Augmenting and mediating human experience, interaction, and perception with sensor networks
Life with AI | Designing the future of smart systems to improve the human experience
The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…
Space Exploration Initiative
Connected Mind + Body | Revolutionizing the future of mental and physical wellbeing
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology that …
Future Worlds | Design and action for the future we want to live in
Cultivating Creativity | Catalyzing a global movement enabling everyone to unlock and unleash their individual and collective creativity
One of the six research methods used by the Space Enabled research group is creating models of complex systems by drawing on techniques fro…
Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering
Historically, technology transfer has been associated with efforts to construct mechanisms allowing the exporting/importing of technol…
Inventing, building, and deploying wireless sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology
Signal Kinetics members Sayed Saad Afzal, Waleed Akbar, Ahmed Allam, and Fadel Adib were honored with two Best Paper Awards at MobiCom 2023.
This project asks, how can we transmit experiences across space and time? The launching point of the project is to create a drawing that co…
Overview: How will we build the coming generations of Space Architecture—the modules, space ships, and space stations that will enscon…
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically infe…
MIT spinoff C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures course, has developed an alternative to palm oil,
Gravity anchors all existence on Earth.It pulls a chaotic world to one single point in every moment of life. Even though gravity is everywh…
Shara Ticku, CEO of MIT spinoff C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures class, talks to Fast Company.
On June 8, 2023, a delegation from the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) visited the MIT Media Lab to meet with faculty and researchers rega…
Digital Learning + Collaboration Studio
Reid, Jack (2023). Using Earth Observation-Informed Modeling to Inform Sustainable Development Decision-Making (Doctoral dissertation). Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Slice of MIT profiles David Heller, co-founder of C16 Biosciences and producer of an environmentally friendly palm oil substitute.
C16 Biosciences, whose founders met in the Media Lab's Revolutionary Ventures course, is producing a substitute for palm oil.
Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)
Changing storytelling, communication, and everyday life through sensing, understanding, and new interface technologies
Neil Gaikwad, a PhD student in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as one of the 2019 Facebook Fellows.
Labby has developed an optical milk scanner based on materials-sensing technology that dairy farmers can use to measure their cows' health.
🚨Applications to the 2022 Co-Design Experience are now closed🚨OverviewThe development of technology in rural environments in Colombia is a…
🚨Application to the 2022 Co-Design Experience here bit.ly/codesign2022 🚨In the Civic Media and Space Enabled groups, we are explo…
Note: On Oct. 25, 2021, the PLOS journal reporting the research associated with this project retracted the publication.Flavor, in addi…
Johnson, Arielle, Caleb B. Harper, et al. “Flavor-Cyber-Agriculture: Optimization of Plant Metabolites in an Open-Source Control Environment through Surrogate Modeling.” PLOS ONE 14, no. 4 (April 3, 2019): e0213918. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213918.
Machine learning can reveal optimal growing conditions to maximize taste and other features.
Maiden Flight is an autonomous biological laboratory environment designed for studying the impact of space flight on the sole reproductive …
Nine groups of artists are selected to be on board Sojourner 2020, which will be launched into low Earth orbit for about 30 days.
The OpenAg™ Food Server is a shipping container-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology that can be built to utilize hydroponi…
The Tree Computer is a robotic greenhouse built to explore plant stress, health, longevity, and productivity across a wide range …
The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems to…
An environment of plants and mirrors that extends beyond the terrarium walls.
“[The wild boars] look at me like I am a visitor. It's like they’re the owners and I’m the guest. Wild animals that normally live in nature…
MIT initiative is producing climate recipes for tastier crops.
“A plant absorbing water acts as a natural motor, their photosynthesis as optoelectronics, their growth as a 3D printer, and so on.”
Plants can sense the environment, other living entities and regenerate, actuate or grow in response. Our interaction and communication…
Space Exploration Initiative research aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard experiment capsule crossed the Karman line for three minutes
We now have more challenging choices to make than simply whether to be vegan, pescatarian or carnivore, thanks to technology.
An active and passionate community of over 2,500 people spread across 62 countries have rallied around the open source platform.
"Food computers" can tell us everything we need to know about what we grow and eat.
OpenAg is committed to changing the way the world thinks about farming and food—and we need your help! As an open source project, we believ…
Castelló Ferrer E. et al. (2019) Personal Food Computer: A New Device for Controlled-Environment Agriculture. In: Arai K., Bhatia R., Kapoor S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018. FTC 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 881. Springer, Cham
There’s a huge opportunity to improve agriculture with gene editing. But we need to give CRISPR a chance.
It’s Thanksgiving season again, and the double shadow on our great American food holiday is feast and famine, both. A bounteous industrial …
Caleb Harper's TED Talk
Caleb Harper is interviewed at the 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival.
