MIT Museum Fall 2022
A Counting
MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers (all extant)
- MIT Media Lab
- Poetic Justice Group (exhibiting artist: Ekene Ijeoma)
Essential MIT
MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers (all extant)
- MIT.nano
- MIT D-Lab
- MIT linQ
- Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
- Institute for Medical and Engineering Science
- Dept of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
- Sloan School of Management
- Plasma Science and Fusion Center
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Electrochemical Energy Laboratory
- Organic and Nanostructured Electronics Laboratory
- Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
- Space Plasa Group
- Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
- MIT Libraries
Other Universities, Institutions, and Companies
- SurgiBox
- Saathi
- nQ Medical Inc.
- Leuko Labs Inc.
- LiquiGlide Inc.
- Climate Interactive
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- California Institute of Technology
- University of Iowa
- NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
- Australian National University
Gene Cultures
MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers (all extant)
- MIT Department of Biological Engineering
- Collins Lab
- Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
- Macosko Lab
- Koch Institute for Integrated Cancer Research at MIT
- Love Lab
- MIT Department of Chemistry
- Shelak Lab
- MIT Media Lab
- Sculpting Evolution Group
- Molecular Machines Group
Other University DLCs, Institutions, and Companies
- Whitehead Institute
- Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
- Harvard Medical School’s Department of Genetics
- Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre
- Wonder Collaborative / Science Communication Lab
- Solaris Biotech Solutions
- Dyno Therapeutics
- Circe Bioscience
- Oxford Nanopore
- Illumina
- CCS Packard / PerkinElmer Inc.
- Ginkgo Bioworks
Artists
- Nonhuman Nonsense
- Julia Lohmann
- Alexandra Daisy Ginsburg and Sissel Tolaas
- Diana Scherer
- Center for Genomic Gastronomy
- Richard Pell
- Joes Davis and Sarah Khan
- Pei-Ying Lin
- Heather Dewey-Hagborg
- Gabrielle Lamb
- Charlotte Jarvis
- Anna Dumitriu and Alex May
- Ani Liu
Tracing Threads
MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers
- MIT Future Heritage Lab
- Department of Urban Studies and Planning
- MIT Senseable City Lab
Made to Measure
MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers
Extant DLCs
- Laboratory for Nuclear Science
- Department of Chemistry
- Hobby Shop
- Former/Defunct DLCs
- Research Laboratory of Physical Chemistry
- Department of Naval Architecture (now part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering)
- Heat Laboratory (now the Rohsenow Kendall Heat Transfer Laboratory)
- Department of Meteorology (now Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, was part of Aeronautical Engineering for a while)
MIT Social Groups
- Lambda Chi Alpha
- Hobby Shop (Smoot Bar)
External Institutes and Companies
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- National Geodetic Society (NOAA, NGS)
- National Technical Laboratories (now Beckman Coulter)
- James White (Currently Hensoldt Company, though the series of mergers and acquisitions from 1850 to now means that there’s little relationship between the two).
- John Bliss & Co. (no longer extant)
- Kimble Glass (now Kimble Chase Life Science and Research Products LLC)
- The Tintometer Ltd. (no longer extant)
- Corning
- A. W. Heynen (no longer extant)
A Life in a Day
Artists
- Random International
In Concert: Ganson and Cavatorta
Artists
- Arthur Ganson
- Andy Cavatorta (Media Lab alumnus)
AI: Mind the Gap
MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers
- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
- Center for Advanced Virtuality
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Computational Cognitive Science Group
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- MCube (Manipulation and Mechanisms) Lab
- MIT Media Lab
- Fluid Interfaces Group
- Affective Computing Group
- Scalable Cooperation Group
- Media Arts and Sciences
- Lincoln Laboratory
- MIT Libraries
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Interactive Robotics Group
- Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Other Universities, Institutions, Companies
- Jibo, Inc.
- IBM
- Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company
- OpenAI
- Scientific American
- The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Algorithmic Justice League
- Johns Hopkins University
To Look and learn: The Creative Photography Laboratory at MIT
MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers
Former/Defunct DLCs
- Creative Photography Lab
- Roxbury Photographers Training Program (not sure if this qualifies as DLC or not)
Artists
- Walter Chappell
- Ron Rosenstock
- Carl Chiarenza
- Hiro Moriyasu
- Barbara Morgan
- Charles Gatewood
- Jerry N. Uelsmann
- Ralph Eugene Meatyard
- Emmet Gowin
- John Benson
- Milton Rogovin
- Judy Dater
- Ken Josephson
- Caroline Vaughan
- Edward Weston
- Lotte Jacobi
- Harry Callahan
- Manuel Alverez Bravo
- Donald Woodman
- Ansel Adams
- Pirkle Jones
- Arthur Lazar
- Imogen Cunningham
- Minor White
- Starr Ockenga
- Arno Rafael Minkkinen
- Melissa Shook
- Jonathan Green
- Ron MacNeil
- Hakim Raquib
- Omobowale Ayorinde
- John Posey
- Gus Kayafas
- Peter Laytin
- Linda Benedict-Jones
- Stephen Milanowski
- Judith Black
- Robert Alter
- Donald Blumberg
MIT Collects – Modeling Everything
MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers
Extant DLCs:
- MIT Kavli Institute
- MIT Media Lab
- Tangible Media Group
- MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), Isolat group
- MIT Department of Architecture
- MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pappalardo Lab
- MIT Center for Ocean Engineering, Towing Tank Laboratory
- MIT Department of Biology
Former/Defunct DLCs:
- MIT Radiation Laboratory
- MIT Instrumentation Laboratory
- MIT Media Laboratory
- Object-Based Media Group
- MIT Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
- MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Supersonic Wind Tunnel
- MIT Center for Space Research
MIT Social Groups
- Tech Model Railroad Club
Companies and Organizations
- Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
- Fisher Scientific Corporation
- LEGO
- Polaroid Corporation
- NASA Marshall Space Center
- Bayko
- Scientific Development Corporation
- Apsco, Inc
- George Lawley & Son Corp.
- Thomas Alva Edison Foundation
- HealthKit
- Keuffel & Esser
- Bell Telephone
MIT Collects – Virtual MIT
Social Groups
- SlPB
MIT Collects – Technology and the Dream
MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers
- MIT Office of Design Services
- “MIT and Slavery” class
- MIT Black History Project
MIT Social Groups:
- MIT BSU
Companies and Organization:
- Disney/Marvel
- NASA
- LEGO
- Black Lives Matter
- Ebony Magazine
MIT Collects – A Sequence of Actions
MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers
- Draper Laboratory
- MIT Instrumentation Laboratory
- Allen B. Dumont Laboratories
- MIT Radiation Laboratory
Companies and Organizations
- AC Electronics Division, General Motors Corporation
- Raytheon Corporation
- Kollsman Insrument Corporation
- IBM
- Rand Corporation
- System Development Corporation (SDC)
- NASA
- The Computer History Museum
MIT Collects – Totally Useless Things
MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers
- MIT Media Lab
- Lifelong Kindergarten Group
MIT Social Groups
- Tetazoo
- Delta Kappa Epsilon
Companies and Organizations
- Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
- Howe & Ser Moving Company
- JoyLabz
- Terrapin Software
- SparkFun
- Fort Cherry Elementary Center
MIT Collects – Totally Useless Things
MIT Departments, Labs, and Centers
- MIT Media Lab
- Lifelong Kindergarten Group
MIT Social Groups
- Tetazoo
- Delta Kappa Epsilon
Companies and Organizations
- Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
- Howe & Ser Moving Company
- JoyLabz
- Terrapin Software
- SparkFun
- Fort Cherry Elementary Center