AT A GLANCE

Headquarters
Boston, MA

Social Entrepreneur
Pamela Cantor, President & CEO

Year Founded
1980

Website
https://www.media.mit.edu/

Mission:

The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research lab that encourages the unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research topics. The Media Lab Learning Initiative engages a community of research fellows from across the Media Lab to develop, prototype and incubate new technologies.

Vision:

The MIT Media Lab seeks to check traditional disciplines at the door by bringing together product designers, nanotechnologists, data-visualization experts, industry researchers, and pioneers of computer interfaces to invent—and reinvent—how humans experience, and can be aided by, technology.

Impact:

Two ~25 person design sessions held in 2016 provided input for MIT learning fellows and 6 new connected learning fellows working on K-12 education were selected in Fall 2016. The Media Lab also recruited 9 fellows for the 2017/18 academic year (with additional support from LEGO).