By Ada Ren-Mitchell and J. Philipp Schmidt We love well-designed in-person workshops — they are undeniably magical. Conversations that happen spontaneously between sessions, or bonding over a shared meal, can build trust and create a sense of community. This in turn makes it easier to try out new things or…

The LEGO Papert Fellowships, endowed by the LEGO Foundation, are intended to honor the legacy and extend the work of Seymour Papert, one of the founding faculty members of the Media Lab and a pioneer in the development and study of new technologies to support playful, creative learning. “The educational…

By Maggie Coblentz High in the Arctic, a team of space engineers, a geologist, an architect, and a designer journeyed to Svalbard for an expedition with the MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative. Their motivation was to test technology to support access to remote regions from the far corners of planet Earth, to the moon, and Mars. Looking out of the airplane window from above was sea and ice. The last sight of treetops were left behind in mainland Norway.

By Anastasia Ostrowski and Madhurima Das We started the Design Justice Pedagogy project in Spring 2021 after an MIT Ideation Lab group meeting where we learned about the Design Justice Network and read excerpts from Sasha Costanza-Chock’s groundbreaking work, Design Justice. Several of us in the group meeting work at…

In 2017, the LEGO Foundation endowed the LEGO Papert Fellowship program in honor of Media Lab founding faculty member Seymour Papert. Each year, the Program in Media Arts and Sciences selects as fellows three graduate students whose work embodies Papert’s legacy of learning, creativity, and play empowered by new technologies. …

By Kim Patch for the MIT Media Lab As she was looking for a camp last summer, Yabesra Ewnetu, who’d just finished eighth grade, found a reference to MIT’s FutureMakers Create-a-thon. Ewnetu had heard that it’s hard to detect bias in artificial intelligence (AI) because AI algorithms are so complex…

By Chelsi Cocking and Manaswi Mishra Code Cypher, hosted by CAST Visiting Artist and Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco and Professor Nick Montfort, invited MIT students to develop computational artworks that play with language and rhythm. The event was hosted from 10am to 6pm on Saturday, October 9, 2021. On the…

On September 23, 2021, at 7pm ET, as part of the Boston Film Festival, the documentary Zero Gravity will have its Boston premiere in a screening at the MIT Media Lab; the film will then be available for digital screenings until September 26 via the Boston Film…

Danielle Wood, director of the Space Enabled research group and assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab and in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has been named as the new principal investigator (PI) for the Zero Robotics program at MIT. Founded over a decade ago by MIT’s Alvar Saenz-Otero…