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The AI and Human Flourishing Ecosystem Map is a living systems map that visualizes the global network of organizations, research institutio…
Overview From writing critique to setting goals, people increasingly turn to AI systems to support reflection and support in creative …
Unspectacular Feed is a platform level chrome extension for the automatic detection and disclosure of AI generated content on social media.…
What if you could turn your favorite photograph into a beautiful piece of music?The Music Camera is an upcoming handheld device that genera…
CoCo is a real-time co-creative learning platform designed to empower educators to support young people in both physical and remo…
Presenting a novel algorithm that allows filling of arbitrary shapes with interlocking, procedurally generated floral patterns, with applic…
The problem: misinformation you hear, not readMost fact-checking tools were built for text, for example, a headline you can pause on, a pos…
What if we built three-dimensional tensile structures by programming invisible electrostatic fields?Electrospun Fields is a mater…
Personal UI is a Chrome extension that empowers users to customize existing websites to suit their needs and preferences. Companies spend m…
Chaal is our proposal for the public space of Ghaf Woods, Dubai's first car-free forest community. At its heart is a sunken plaza with wate…
Neural Transparency: Mechanistic Interpretability Interfaces for Anticipating Model Behaviors for Personalized AIMillions of users now desi…
Local food systems face a growing challenge: while demand for sustainable and locally produced food is increasing, many small-scale produce…
We are building an intelligent musical partner that plays duets with you and teaches music. This research teaches us how to design mo…
The people who help you most don't just respond to what you say. They understand how you think.They know when you're likely to rush a decis…
Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and p…
Robots are already entering our cities, on sidewalks, in the skies, and behind the wheels of autonomous vehicles. Without intention and car…
The Automatar is an intelligent AI-powered bass guitar born to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds. While the …
Glyph is a wallet for credit cards with an e-ink display and two buttons. It connects to XR glasses and renders content pushed from them. T…
The data we collect about the physical world keeps growing. Generative models, cheaper compute, and better sensing are pushing dataset size…
How can exhibitions bring complex urban futures to broader, non-expert communities?City Science exhibitions translate research into rich pu…
PixBric: Precision Morphological Control of Pre-Stretched Fabrics ThroughTessellated Primitive Geometries3D printing onto pre-stretched fab…
As video generation models like Veo 3.1 and LTX-2 advance, their ability to accurately represent diverse global cultures remains a critical…
MeshModule is a modular construction platform composed of soft, 3D-printed mesh units designed for rapid prototyping of interactive, reconf…
Resonance explores the relationship between mind and matter through an immersive contemplative installation. The work translates the brainw…
What if clothing and textiles emerged in situ—woven by robots around the body itself, shaped by anatomy, motion, and material behavio…
American cities face growing tension among stakeholders whose priorities often conflict. Residents seek affordable housing and livable neig…
We show that LLMs can provide significantly more reliable explanations of sensor data when it receives contextual information about people,…
Grounded in science, #BeatTheVirus aims to raise awareness of the behaviors we all must adopt to collectively defeat COVID-19.Thi…
Join us for the MIT Media Lab's Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) Seminar Series, where we bring together world experts on artificial intellig…
New research from the MIT Media Lab suggests that while AI chatbots can help people spot misinformation in the moment, their regular use do…
How can urban residents reach a shared vision of the future?Many excellent and potentially transformative ideas fail to be deployed in citi…
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Re…
Andorra Clone is a country-scale digital twin and scenario exploration platform being developed to help Andorra better understand and plan …
Executive SummaryPublic blockchains present a compelling opportunity for financial institutions (FIs) to access open, interoperable i…
Speculating on life in Zero G, with magnetic cloths that dock us to give us a sense of gravity.
The Anemoia Device is a scent-memory machine that distills analogue photographs into bespoke fragrances.Guided by a generative AI models an…
The project aims to reduce CO₂ emissions related to mobility. It focuses on supporting local governments in making informed decisions about…
This research aims to address the timely and timeless challenge of human-computer interaction by focusing on designing and studying human-A…
We are developing hyper-efficient places of living that are dynamically transformable so that compact, more affordable spaces have three ti…
Researchers from the City Science group collaborated with the Tiresia research group at the Politecnico di Milano to examine the impact, go…
We've designed a health system strengthening model to support and expand the prosthetic and orthotic sector that cares for people wit…
Full paper (open access)Link to videoNeuroChat is a neuroadaptive AI tutor that combines generative AI with real-time EEG data to create a …
What does it mean to give artificial intelligence a body? Not a body in the fleshy sense, or even a humanoid shell, but a form through whic…
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…
Tongji University, Shanghai, and the MIT Media Lab's City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for …
A lot of the systems tested in the parameter-space exploration tools in Silverpost were abstract, which were forgiving to extreme valu…
I usually work with code that creates images, which I means I can easily explore the system using more code. Here, I wanted to see what I c…
bird.rs is a parametric system that can illustrate a species, including their body shape, feathers, and field marks. It can even be used to…
Read the paper here.According to a report from Menlo Ventures there were about 1.7-1.8 billion people who used large language model (LLM)-b…
World models enable AI systems to step beyond reactive pattern matching, allowing them to anticipate consequences and plan for the fut…
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsFounded a decade ago, the City Science Network conn…
LiDAR sensors are rapidly becoming ubiquitous in consumer technology, appearing in devices such as the Apple iPhone Pro, Apple Vision Pro, …
During the course of daily activity, people are constantly adapting their ankle joint stiffness based on the type of activity they are doin…
New Report: Towards Open Benchmarks for Human Flourishing with AIMost AI benchmarks measure how smart models are—but not how they aff…
Human Operator is a human augmentation tool that allows AI to briefly take control of your body to help you learn and do things you normall…
Anthology is an experimental interface that turns raw conversation audio into interactive maps.Great conversations so often lead to weak ar…
Agora is a training ground to help people practice building consensus by drafting and revising policies based on feedback from a population…
Urban areas are responsible for 70% of global GHG emission, and must play a central role in solutions to global warming. Using Kendall Squa…
How can we serve 2.5 billion people without access to centralized infrastructure for basic services?By 2050, more than 2.5 billion people a…
Our mission is to expand horizons, foster creativity, and explore a myriad of concepts. Gastronomy and Beyond is a collaboration betwe…
How can cities deploy a systematic process for transformation?Cities are among the most complex systems humans have created—interwoven netw…
US dollar stablecoins are increasingly used as payment and settlement instruments beyond cryptocurrency markets. With the enactment of the …
The arts and sciences are two things that remain uniquely human, each for its own reasons.In both cases, they are products of the human min…
The State of AI and Human Flourishing Survey is a research initiative from the MIT Media Lab’s Advancing Humans with AI (AHA) program exami…
The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financia…
City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning cha…
An immersive decision-support platform that lets communities and planners experience zoning scenarios in real time.
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…