Center for Civic Media

The Center for Civic Media develops new tools and strategies for fostering civic engagement and strengthening social bonds in local communities. The Center takes technologies that have proven so powerful for virtual communities, and re-envisions and re-engineers them to enhance civic participation at a local level, providing new ways for local residents to organize and share information for the purpose of democratic deliberation, neighborhood collaboration, and political action.

Education Arcade

The Education Arcade explores games that promote learning through authentic and engaging play. Its research and development projects focus both on the learning that naturally occurs in popular commercial games and on the design of games that more vigorously address the educational needs of players. Its mission is to demonstrate the social, cultural, and educational potentials of videogames by initiating new game development projects, coordinating interdisciplinary research efforts, and informing public conversations about the broader and sometimes unexpected uses of this emerging art form in education.

Hyperstudio

The HyperStudio explores the potential of new media technologies for the enhancement of education and research in the humanities. Its work focuses on questions about the integration of technology into humanities curricula within the broader context of scholarly inquiry and educational practice. The HyperStudio conceptualizes, develops, and deploys innovative media applications in close collaboration with scholars, educators, students, and developers. The HyperStudio is sponsored by Foreign Languages & Literatures in close collaboration with the Comparative Media Studies Program and the Literature Faculty.

Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab

The Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab builds computational systems for expressing imaginative stories and concepts -- "phantasmal media" -- enabling new forms of human creative culture while empowering users. Imagination computing systems use artificial intelligence/cognitive science-based techniques as expressive resources for new forms of interactive narrative, gaming, online identity, software art, and new forms of expressive digital media. Website coming soon.

Mobile Experience Lab

The Mobile Experience Lab seeks to radically reinvent and creatively design connections between people, information, and places. Using cutting-edge information and mobile technology, the Lab seeks to improve people's lives through the careful design of meaningful experiences. Our multidisciplinary team researches and designs new technologies, carefully considering their impact in societies, spaces, and communities.

Open Documentary Lab

MIT's Open Documentary Lab brings technologists, storytellers, and scholars together to advance the new arts of documentary. Drawing on MIT's legacy of media innovation and its deep commitment to open and accessible information, the Open Documentary Lab is a place of generative dialogue between media makers, technologists, and scholars. By participating in Lab activities, visiting artists and aspiring media makers not only explore the potential of new technologies, they collaborate with MIT researchers to shape the storytelling practices of the future.

Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab

The Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab is a five-year research initiative that addresses important challenges faced by the global digital game research community and industry, with a core focus on identifying and solving research problems using a multi-disciplinary approach that can be applied by Singapore's digital game industry. The Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab focuses on building collaborations between Singapore institutions of higher learning and various MIT departments to accomplish both research and development.