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PUMA: Auxetic Recurve Midsole

Programmable midsole for optimized performance.In a multi-year collaboration project with PUMA, MIT Design Lab has been working on computational design and virtual performance simulation of auxetic pattern - 'recurve' - to reimagine how we can program our shoes to enhance perf...


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PUMA: Biodesign

Can Bacteria in Clothing really make an Athlete faster?April, 2018 - PUMA and MIT Design Lab present latest research in the field of BiodesignA breathing sports shoe, that grows its own air passageways to enable personalized ventilation? A learning insole that prevents fatigue...


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Connected Lighting for Caring Cities

Human-centric approach for the future of caring solutionsThe ‘Caring Lights’ research project explores the role of smart dynamic lighting in creating rich and inviting public spaces, inclusive urban environments and safer communities through the implementation of advanced ligh...


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PUMA: Making sports dynamic

Revolutionizing the next generation of sportswearDedicated websiteThe MIT Design Lab and PUMA have come together to create the next generation of sportswear. As advances are made in fields such as materials science, electrical engineering, and artificial intelligence, new prod...


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Bradesco: The Future of BIA

Reimagine virtual agent and envision future financial experience impacted by AI   The project addresses a general understanding the state of the art technologies in the Artificial Intelligence systems, such as machine learning and natural language processing and others. It foc...


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MIT Atlas Center

Rethinking and redesigning the service center experience.The Atlas Center will be a place where tasks such as getting ID Cards, setting up various accounts, or receiving transportation passes could be as efficient and welcoming as possible to help students and faculty feel at ...


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Augmented Health and Safety: Future Vision

Exploring how disruptive technologies will transform health and safety practices in the energy industryWe investigate emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Augmented Reality and Advanced robotics in relation to health and safety issues in t...


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Shaping the future of the insurance experience

Innovating Insurance with BNP Paribas Cardif. The partnership between The Design Lab and BNP Paribas Cardif is a means to engage new research and design methodologies to shape the future of the insurance experience. We are interested in fundamental problems - what does it mean...


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PUMA: Auxetic Recurve Midsole

Programmable midsole for optimized performance.In a multi-year collaboration project with PUMA, MIT Design Lab has be...

PUMA: Biodesign

Milan Design Week 2018: Living and Breathing the Future of Performance

Connected Lighting for Caring Cities

Exploring the role of smart dynamic lighting in creating rich and inviting public spaces

PUMA: Making sports dynamic

Revolutionizing the next generation of sportswearDedicated websiteThe MIT Design Lab and PUMA have come together to c...

Bradesco: The Future of BIA

Reimaging virtual agent and envision future financial experience impacted by AI

MIT Atlas Center

Rethinking and redesigning the service center experience.

Augmented Health and Safety: Future Vision

Exploring how disruptive technologies will transform health and safety practices in the energy industry.

Shaping the future of the insurance experience

Combining social research methods with technology-centered product innovation.

Observatory on Emerging Technologies

Observing the new emerging technologies, and the potential impact in the industries.

Smarter cities, smarter tourism

Designing new technologies that will substantially improve tourists’ user experiences in Chinese cities.

Connected chair embedding smartness

AI and IoT in everyday objects

Redesigning the fitness experience

Develop digital interfaces, websites, and reports to complement and augment physical prototypes of new shoes and appa...

Smart Home and IoT

Designed a strategic roadmap of IoT based solutions for connected home.

VR sensory and learning Experience

Phone-booth with VR headset and sound system that allows users to be fully immersed into a virtual environment.

The Branch of the future

Designing new branch services and interior space to support various forms of knowledge share.

Healthcare for millennials

Redesign the millennials healthcare digital experience.

Telecom Innovation Center

The Center will both showcase the company’s most innovative products and serve to gather customers’ feedback on new c...

Redesign the retail experience for millennials

Designing Interactions for the future retail experience targeting millennials.

Safety++

Human-centric approach to instrument worker in extreme environment.

Collaborative Design in Immersive Virtual Environments

Exploring the potentials immersive virtual environments in the context of collaborative spatial design.

Re/Active – Innovation in Product, Process, Service in Craftsmanship

Re/Active is a collaborative project between the MIT Design Lab and artisans of Florence, Italy.

Six Degrees: A Social Platform to Connect People and Services

Designed as a physical enhancement to a hotel lobby to catalyze interactions between patrons.

Mobile Games for Olympics

Gamification and Mobile Games to evoke the spirit of Olympics.

Redesigning Personal Finance Interfaces

Rethinking Personal Finance Management and Customer Interfaces for Banks.

Reinventing a Gas Station as a Hub for Multi-Modal Mobility

Repurposing a gas station for multi-modal transportation systems, retail innovation and co-working spaces.

Loyalty in hospitality

Redesign the hotel of the future.

Redesign FireFly and Financial Services

Experiential, services, and technological aspects for FireFly 2.0

Rethinking the Public Transportation Experience

Using new media technologies to connect public transit passengers to station services.

A Digital Platform for Disease Surveillance

Digital technology to aid health workers in India as they diagnose and treat malaria patients.

Augmented Reality and the Urban Experience

Design the experiences for city tourists using Google Glass: intersect digital media and urban space.

The Future of Smart Living and Connected Objects

The four Smartliving projects look at ways to enhance interaction between emerging devices and dwellers.

LUME Interactive Media Display

Redesigning Contextualizing Information Through Interactive Displays and Tangible Media.

Rethinking the Gardening Experience

Applying Augmented Reality and Gamification to Promote Urban Farming.

An Artisan Workshop for the 21st Century

Developing Digital Tools and Physical Spaces to Enhance Italian Craft Tradition.

Designing for the Fuel Station of Tomorrow

The ENI fuel station of the tomorrow represent the innovation within fuel station delivery and experience.

A Connected User Experience for Hotel Guests

Scroll Bar connects hotel guests with local services and promotions.

A Platform for Crowd-Sourced Projects in Time-Lapse Photography

Collaboratively create time-lapse animations and take picture to use over time and location.

Designing Financial Tools for the Unbanked

Design financial tools for 2.5 billion people who rely heavily on cash.

Smart Corridor

Showcasing technology considering the media ecology visitor experience.

Geo-located Travel Guide

Combining professional content with tourist and local content.

Sustainable Connected Home

Building the home of the future in its technological and social roles.

Open Source Digital Platform for Geo-Based User-Generated Content

Rethinking the relationship between digital media and physical place.

The Future Hotel Experience

The future hotel experience will be social, seamless and connected.

Collaborative Real-Time Photo-Sharing Technology

CoCam is a self-organizing network of real-time photos.

Social Media Commerce Platforms to Promote Fashion Industries

Designing a digital platform that would help connect local artisans to the wider world.

Tangible Interactions to Promote Financial Planning

A mobile app to educate youth in financial planning.

Transquility: Robotic Dynamic Media Facade

A kinetic transformable media façade intersects architecture, media and robotics.

Location-Based Storytelling and Remembering

Explore the city of Boston through the collected stories of Italian immigrants.

Youth Mapping Urban Risks

Technologies that help youth inform policy and decision making.

BusBuzz: Social Music in the Bus

Creates ad-hoc music networks with the people around you.

ChipChop: A Connected Cutting Board

A touch cutting board as tablet controller with feedbacks from the recipe.

Mobile UV Monitor to mitigate cancer risk

New wearable devices have the potential to mitigate cancer risks.

New Cross-platforms to Transform Financial Services for Banks

Designing digital services to enhance the bank experience.

Engaging students in the local community

Engage students in the process of collecting, reporting and disseminating news and information related to their local...

Reimagining Audience Participation at Conferences

Integrate natural gestures to allow attendees to provide feedback and participate in proceedings.

Rethinking Real-Time Video Communication

Create more natural human device interactions while communicating remotely via video.

Social Interface for Connected TV Experience

Exploring the connected, social future of television.

Location Based Tourism

A participatory media platform designed around the tourist experience.

Electric Bikes and Mobile Experience

Prototyping a web and mobile-based platform that interfaces with the wheel itself.

Social Shopping and Contextualized Media Exchange

Explore how social networks on mobile devices can enable a new type of mediated social shopping experience.

Strategic Vision of Connected Urban Development

Imagine future cities adapting and thrive in the ubiquitous information and communication technology era.

Mobile Applications for Connected Places

Developing strategies for enhancing the Pitti Uomo community.

RideLink: Wearable Computing to Prevent DUI

Combine wearable technology, mobile phones, and Web infrastructure to establishing a trust network.

Tactile Media and Responsive Culture for Open Spaces

Fiber Cloud: was a sculpture designed to respond to human touch.

Reinventing Technology for Tradeshows

PittiFolio: a conference badge and kiosk system that supplemented the event guidebook.

Augmented Reality to Improve Civic Engagement

eLens explored conceptual issues of a cityscape augmented with digital information.

The Bus of the Future: Promoting Mobility and Connected Services

The Interactive Bus Stop create iterations at multiple ways, scales, and time frames.

The future of mobile payment

Strategic envisioning of everyday life impact of mobile payment enhanced through NFC technologies.

Smart Mobility

Envisioning the role of a bus line in the future.