Projects

Activities at the lab range from quick, intense exercises to global multi-year efforts. On this page we highlight a few current ones, some past favorites and eventually plug in to our database hosting information and materials on more than a few. The list of our masters' theses and doctoral dissertations, many with downloadable portions, can be found archived in our publications pages.

Ongoing and upcoming

What's cooking right now? Here's a live feed of latest project announcements. It's also available as RSS, as one of our feeds.

Please note that we are just kicking this off this winter, so not a lot of entries here yet.

  • Lies and Seductions Released
    April 25th, 2009 by Petri Lankoski
    • Lies and Seductions is a single player game about seduction, lies, and betrayal. Are you able to guide Abby to seduce a rock star, Chris, promised to stay virgin until marriage? In order to success you need to gather dirty little secrets, use those secrets in your advantage, and make an ...
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  • Demo Day:The Way to Urban Long Tail
    December 8th, 2008 by Shanfan Huang
    • THE TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATION? The Way to Urban Long Tail WHAT IS THE CONTEXT OF YOUR PRESENTATION? Diploma project in Industrial and Strategic Design Department A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR PRESENTATION Many people work and live in cities where they're not originally from. More and more people would live in quite a few cities in ...
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  • Nokia . Expand (Demo Day)
    November 29th, 2008 by Anna Keune
    • THE TITLE OF YOUR PRESENTATION? Nokia . Expand - a mobile school communication device for children in developing regions of the world WHAT IS THE CONTEXT OF YOUR PRESENTATION? Product Developing Project, TKK at Design Factory A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR PRESENTATION A short overview of who we are, what the project is about, what we ...
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  • Gottberg-Kåhre project at the Amos Anderson Art Museum
    October 28th, 2008 by Liisa Tervinen
    • Artists Markus Kåhre and Susanne Gottberg are preparing their exhibition for the Amos Anderson Art Museum and asked help for video projection part of their installation from Media Lab Helsinki. The opening for the exhibition will be in August 2009. Markus Kåhre: "We are working on the show together ...
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  • ICING project successfully reviewed
    October 8th, 2008 by Joanna Saad-Sulonen
    • The EU-funded ICING project (Innovative Cities for the Next Generation) has been successfully reviewed on the 25th of September 2008 in Barcelona. Media Lab was involved in this project, through the Arki research group, for the full two and a half years that the project lasted. Our main contribution ...
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  • All announcements...

Current highlights and Highlight archive

Well take a look at some of our well known or well liked projects over the years, in this space, starting winter 2007-2008. Stay tuned.