MIT Media Lab
I stopped by the MIT Media lab today for a tour from a friend. The space feels like an advanced playroom - freshly opened boxes of gadgets, wires connecting half built objects and a vibrant array of oversized toys within big open spaces.
Here are a few of the groups/projects that caught my interest on first glance:
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Lifelong kindergarten - http://llk.media.mit.edu/
“We develop new technologies that, in the spirit of the blocks and fingerpaint of kindergarten, expand the range of what people can design, create, and learn.”
Opera of the future - http://opera.media.mit.edu/
“explores concepts and techniques to help advance the future of musical composition, performance, learning, and expression.”
Information Design Ecology - http://eco.media.mit.edu/
“We define Design Ecology as the study of malleable design that is aware of and can seamlessly react to changing environments. “
(The Daydar project, exploring social productivity, is right up my alley. http://eco.media.mit.edu/daydar/)
High-low tech - http://hlt.media.mit.edu/
“The High-Low Tech group integrates high and low technological materials, processes, and cultures.”
(The living wall, interactive wall paper - http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=27)
