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Science Hack Day @ Media Lab

LocationMIT Media Lab Description

Saturday — Sunday
January 24, 2015 —
January 25, 2015
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Hacking Journalism @ Media Lab

LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionKevin Hu and Alexis Hope on FOLD:Imagine reading about the 2008 housing crisis without knowing …

Saturday — Sunday
June 7, 2014 —
June 8, 2014
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Jie Qi @ Hack Your Notebook Day

LocationOnline Description

Wednesday
July 9, 2014
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Comedy Hack Day with Baratunde Thurston

LocationMIT Media Lab, 6th Floor DescriptionComedy Hack Day, an initiative by Director's Fellow Baratunde Thurston's company Cultivated Wit…

Saturday — Sunday
September 21, 2013 —
September 22, 2013
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Breathe Respiratory Hackathon @ Media Lab

LocationMIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium Description

Saturday — Sunday
September 19, 2015 —
September 20, 2015
Event

Media Lab Breast Pump Hackathon

LocationMIT Media Lab Description

Saturday — Monday
September 20, 2014 —
September 22, 2014
Article

Media Lab Students Hack Kinect for Cooler Videoconferencing

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Hack with Samsung 2022

This hackathon aims to explore how projection can tap into our personal life to allow us to be healthier, better versions of ourselves.

Friday — Sunday
September 23, 2022 —
September 25, 2022
Event

City Science Mobility++ Hackathon 2017 / MIT 城市科學【多元運輸】黑客松 2017

​MIT Media Lab  Mobility++ Workshop【多元運輸】工作坊2017  11月28日~30日 In celebration of the launch of City Science Lab @ TaipeiTechAb…

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Hacking Reality

XR technology is becoming increasingly important in a world where the need to know intersects with the need to experience.

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Media Lab @ 2023 Cambridge Science Festival

Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is an annual celebration of science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM)

Article

An MIT lab is building devices to hack your dreams

From improving your mood to focusing your creativity, scientists at MIT’s Dream Lab want to prove the power of dreams.

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Media Lab Summer Camp 2021: Panasonic-City Science

6月26日(土)7:30-9:00pm(日本)// 6:30-8:00am (ボストン)都市未来デザイン〜データと審議を通したまちづくり〜 パナソニック株式会社 + City Science発表者:山崎菜々子(パナソニック株式会社)、酒井康史(City Science) キーワ…

Saturday
June 26, 2021
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#MLSXSW: Hacking Attention: Media, Technology & Crisis

LocationRoom 9ABC, Austin Convention Center Description#sxsw #HackAttn #MLSXSWSuperstorms, bombings and protests around the globe are chall…

Monday
March 10, 2014
Event

City Robotics: $10K Design•a•Hack•a•thon for People-Centric Mobility

Recent advancements in autonomous and intelligent machines introduce an unprecedented opportunity to reimagine how people live, work, and p…

Saturday — Monday
September 15, 2018 —
September 17, 2018
9:00am — 11:00pm ET
Article

Science Fiction for tomorrow's day to day

Ariel Ekblaw speaks at Sónar+D

Person

Jimmy Day

Video Producer

Article

MIT Media Lab at 25 on NPR's Science Friday

The MIT Media Lab, a hallowed digital playground and research center into media technologies, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. We'll ta…

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Art, Science, and the Media Lab

The following are Andy Lippman's opening remarks from the Media Lab's spring 2017 member meeting.

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The Poetry of Science project highlights two Media Lab students

The project pairs local poets of color with local scientists of color to create original poetry about the scientists’ work and experiences.

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Media Lab Research Theme: Cultivating Creativity

The Challenge: To ignite creativity in the face of global challengesThe accelerating crises, disruptions, and disconnections in today’s soc…

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Media Lab alum Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao earns 2021 National Science Foundation CAREER award

Media Lab alum Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao has earned a National Science Foundation CAREER award for on-skin interfaces.

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City Science Lab @ Biobío

The MIT City Science team will work with the Cámara Chilena de la Construcción (CChC), Corporación Ciudades, and the Biobío regional govern…

Project

City Science Lab @ Gipuzkoa

The MIT City Science team will work with the Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa and Mubil Fundazioa on a new collaboration to create the City Sci…

Article

Hacking in a factory

Lessons from a month in a Chinese knitting plant.

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Media Lab Research Theme: Future Worlds

The Challenge: To secure a sustainable future for all living thingsHow can we reduce harm to our planet and the future prospects of life on…

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Media Lab Research Theme: Connected Mind + Body

The Challenge: To Transform Mental + Physical WellbeingAs mental health and physical ability challenges surge worldwide, driven by ine…

Article

Want to be more creative? Try dream-hacking while you sleep

The Washington Post reports on research from the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Harvard Medical School that naps could aid creativity.

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City Science Lab Opens in Guadalajara Museum of Environmental Sciences

The City Science Lab @ Guadalajara was established in 2019 via a cooperation agreement between the University of Guadalajara and the City S…

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Media Lab @ Daimler Lab1886

Ryan McCarthy and Phil Tinn spent a week at the headquarters of Daimler and Lab1886 in Stuttgart.

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MIT Media Lab x Smart Living Lab

In January 2024, members of the Media Lab traveled to Fribourg, Switzerland to conduct a workshop on sensing, interactions, and augmentation

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Media Lab Tour Requests

Please fill out the form below to submit your request. A team member will respond within 10 business days.

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Hacking Manufacturing: research on the factory floor

How one collaborative month has changed Labbers' views of making stuff.

Project

City Science Lab @ Taipei

The City Science Lab @ Taipei is a cooperation between The National Taipei University of Technology, also called NTUT or Taipei Tech, …

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City Science Lab @ Toronto

City Science Lab Toronto was established in cooperation with Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.  It  started in 2018 and is t…

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City Science Lab @ Israel

The MIT City Science team will work with Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in Beersheba on a new collaboration to create the City Science Lab @ I…

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City Science Lab @ Shanghai to continue cooperation with MIT City Science and the City Science Network

Representatives from the City Science Lab @ Shanghai (Tongji University) visited the MIT Media Lab to sign a continuation of their cooperat…

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City Science Lab @ Shanghai

Tongji University, Shanghai, and the MIT Media Lab's City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for …

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Festival of Learning 2022 at the MIT Media Lab

Festival of Learning is always a time of meeting new people while reconnecting with friends I haven't seen in a while, which has been espec…

Event

Media Lab Perspectives: Back to Earth with Nicole Stott

In this session of the Media Lab Perspective Series, Media Lab director Dava Newman will moderate a conversation with Nicole Stott

Thursday
February 17, 2022
12:00pm — 1:00pm ET
Project

City Science Lab @ Guadalajara

The City Science Lab@Guadalajara is a collaboration with the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), a network composed of 15 campuses within the…

Article

Art, Science, Technology Inspires Walt Disney Imagineers at MIT Media Lab Event

“Happiness makes the world go round."

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City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…

Project

City Science Lab @ Hamburg

MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop digital tools to enable more livable communities. In one project, the team…

Post

In the Press - City Science Lab @Biobío

There has been extensive news on this collabotation. For the most recent news on the City Science Lab Biobío, visit their site or instagram…

Article

Mitchell, New Head of MIT Media Lab Program in Media Arts and Sciences, to Step Down as Architecture Dean

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City Science Lab @ Gipuzkoa Announced

On March 1, 2023 the MIT City Science team hosted an event to formally announce the start of the City Science Lab@Gipuzkoa 

Article

The consequences of hacking our dreams

Advertisers are beginning to explore ways to market products to people while they sleep. A group of scientists talked to NPR about the risks

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Media Lab sets sights on space

MIT Media Lab event, Beyond the Cradle, launches a new initiative to explore the final frontier. 

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City Science Lab @ Gipuzkoa Announced

On February 28, 2023 the MIT City Science team hosted an event to formally announce the start of the City Science Lab@Gipuzkoa, a region in…

Monday — Wednesday
February 27, 2023 —
March 1, 2023
Project

City Science Lab @ Aalto

Aalto University, Finland, and the MIT Media Lab’s City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for urban a…

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Media Lab @ World Economic Forum 2023

Several Media Lab community members participated in the 2023 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting; watch the archived videos here.

Monday — Friday
January 16, 2023 —
January 20, 2023
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City Science Lab Guadalajara in the news

Below is a selection of  press coverage of the collaboration between the MIT Media Lab City Science group at the University of Guadala…

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Media Lab Summer Camp 2021

​Media Lab Summer Camp in Japan「将来、MITで学びたい・教えたい? 世界を舞台にコラボしたい?」メディアラボでは、この夏、業界を超えたコラボレーションを通して社会課題に取り組んだ活動や経験を中高生達に共有するセッションを開催します。セッションは、…

Friday — Sunday
June 18, 2021 —
June 27, 2021
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MIT Media Lab Fall Meeting 2023

The Fall Meeting will be held on-site at the MIT Media Lab with sessions livestreamed on Tuesday, October 24 - Thursday, October 26, 2023.

Video

Research Group Overview: City Science

Looking beyond smart cities.

Article

Media Lab Director Joi Ito Appointed Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences

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The Media Lab @ the MIT Museum

We're thrilled to welcome our friends at the Museum to Kendall Square!

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MISTI MIT Media Lab x Smart Living Lab Workshop

The University of Fribourg + the MIT Media Lab will host a workshop related to the fields of built environments + human-computer interaction

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Media Lab: What’s in the name?

Exploring the history of the Media Lab's name.