The exhibition includes work from a number of Media Lab researchers and alumni.
LocationCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Description
Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial with Cube Design MuseumNature addresses the ways designers are exploring sustainable producti…
Alumni Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy along with former Labber Giorgia Lupi have been honored at this year’s National Design Awards
Images from Neri Oxman and the Mediated Matter group, representing a large body of work from their research and collaborations.
OpenAg is invited to showcase its latest Food Computer design in the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, the Barbican Centre, and the V&A Museum
Interaction Design category
LocationCooper Hewitt Museum, New YorkDescriptionImagine handling objects virtually and physically in real time, from thousands of miles aw…
We are at the dawn of a mobility revolution, where autonomous vehicles will replace cars controlled by humans. We can imagine this developi…
Three research projects featured in The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility
LocationCooper-Hewitt DescriptionA showcase of work by eighty American designers, the second installment of the National Design Triennial i…
Biodesign—the future of materials, manufacturing, architecture, and fashion.
Researchers have come up with an innovation that will delight the fashion industry and people concerned about animal welfare: 3D-printed fur
Ekene Ijeoma, head of the Poetic Justice research group, talks to Frame about his work.
Walter Roban has unveiled the five-year Bermuda National Space Strategy created by a team of local and international experts.
Research Assistant
Das, M., Saadi, J.I., Santos, M., Roeder, G., Ostrowski, A.K., Lee, S., Breazeal, C., D’Ignazio, C., Yang, M., & Verma, A. How and why instructors include and exclude social, policy, and ethical considerations in design education. Accepted to the 24th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED) 2023.
Hiroshi Ishii, Craig Wisneski, Julian Orbanes, Ben Chun, Joe Paradiso
Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellow Prathima Muniyappa uses the transformative power of design to empower marginalized indigenous communities.
Celebrating the design pioneer whose work continues to inspire outspoken creativity.
Sawhney, N. "Cooperative Innovation in the Commons: Rethinking Distributed Collaboration and Intellectual Property for Sustainable Design Innovation"
How do we meaningfully engage with topics such as ethics, equity, and justice in our design processes?
The article is titled: "What Do We Mean When We Write About Ethics, Equity, And Justice In Engineering Design?"
The AI Now Symposium is designed to address the biggest challenges we face as AI moves further into our everyday lives.
Chelsi Cocking shares her thoughts on how the design industry can better foster, support, and grow design talent in the Black community.
Former Research Support Associate
Former Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
Mitchel Resnick, Eric Rosenbaum
Former Media Lab Professor John Maeda talks to Danielle Newnham about computational thinking and what it takes to cultivate curiosity.
Neri Oxman
Aguahoja II builds upon the platform technology of its predecessor, enabling large-scale multi-material 3D printing with abundant, organic …
The worlds of Design and Science are inextricably linked. Science is informed by Design. Design is a science. The interactions between the …
Ayah Bdeir on her journey from Lebanon to MIT Media Lab, and why she started littleBits.
Ostrowski, A.K., Breazeal, C., & Park, H.W. 2020. Design research in HRI: Roboticists, design features, and users as co-designers. IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication 2021 Workshop on Designerly HRI Knowledge
The MouthPad^ has been honored as the Winner of the Emerging Technologies Award and as a Runner Up for the Design for Social Impact Award!
Research Assistant
Prof Wood's presentation is part of a long term cooperation with the Angolan space program to apply satellite data for drought response
The exhibition has now become a part of the MoMA's ‘Virtual Views’ program due to the pandemic.
Join the MIT Museum for the launch of the MIT Morningside Academy for Design. Media Lab Director Dava Newman is among the speakers.
FIBERBOTS is a digital fabrication platform fusing cooperative robotic manufacturing with abilities to generate highly sophisticated materi…
How do you design creative learning activities?
The Design Fiction group is not accepting new students. The Design Fiction group designs projects to stimulate discussion about the so…
Creating inhospitable, uncomfortable, and non-inclusive products and services is counter to the goals of design. Yet it happens all the tim…
Research Scientist
Ostrowski, A.K., Zhang, J., Das, M., Breazeal, C., D’Ignazio, C., Verma, A., & Yang, M. Design justice strategies for design education. Accepted to ASME 2023 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2023); Track: 35th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (DTM).
Research Assistant
"FlowIO represents a brilliantly thought-out system for creating pneumatic prototypes."
Das, M., Ostrowski, A.K., Ben-David, S., Roeder, G.J., Kimura, K., D’Ignazio, C., Breazeal, C., Yang, M, & Verma, A. Auditing design justice: The impact of social movements on design pedagogy at a technology institution. Design Studies.
Former Research Assistant
Research Scientist
Ostrowski, A. K. & Breazeal, C. (2022, March). Design Justice for Robot Design and Policy Making. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.
The Space Exploration Initiative’s latest research flight explores work and play in zero gravity
Work, school and social gatherings will be mostly virtual for months to come. It's time to explore new ways of seeing and interacting online
Human Dynamics group members explore how technical CBDC design choices can be used to make a CBDC inherently resistant to money laundering.
Haney, Max; Inocente, Daniel; Katz, Neil; Petrov, Georgi I., et al. "Moon Village Reference Masterplan and Habitat Design." International Conference on Environmental Systems. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, 2019.
Das, M., Ostrowski, A.K., Ben-David, S., Roeder, G.J., Kimura, K., D'Ignazio, C., Breazeal, C., & Verma, A. (2022, March). Auditing design justice: The impact of social movements on design pedagogy at a technology institution. In 2022 Design Thinking Research Symposium. (pp. 121-138). DesignTech, Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 2022
Opinion: The push to ban unwanted “dark patterns” from apps and sites may also take away certain features users want.