MIT Media Lab

Watch: On the Lifelong Kindergarten podcast, Professor Mitchel Resnick talks to Media Lab alum Dr. Jaleesa Trapp about some of the ways young people can leverage their often-overlooked skills, creativity, and lived experience to create new opportunities for themselves and their communities.

Jaleesa Trapp: Leveraging Lived Experience Too often, young people from marginalized communities are viewed in...

Watch: During a talk at the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech, Professor Hiroshi Ishii shared the evolution of his vision-driven design philosophy — from Tangible Bits to Radical Atoms, and finally to TeleAbsence — since joining the Media Lab in 1995. “Life has an endpoint,” he says, “but the future is never-ending. Technology soon becomes obsolete, but true vision is everlasting. What legacy will you leave for those living in 2200?”

CHCI@VT Distinguished Speaker, Hiroshi Ishii, October 31, 2025 Vision-Driven Design: Beyond Tangible Bits toward Radical Atoms, Be...