The Lab-o-rama is a unique poster event designed to showcase and share the stories of research using the MIT Campus as a Test Bed. The events featured the work of diverse research teams including operational, academic and external partners and include live demonstrations, models, simulations and other hands-on activities.
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Lablet-ing
Learn more about the phenomena of lablet-ing; a term for short-term experiments, pilots and micro-research projects that utilize the MIT campus as a test bed.
Lablet-ing represents an important opportunity to explore innovation strategies within the context of real-world environments, to construct new knowledge and to test scalability strategies.
Solving for Carbon Neutrality
With a focus on designing solution scenarios for MIT for the short and long term, Solving for Carbon Neutrality at MIT, led by instructors Director of Sustainability and DUSP lecturer Julie Newman, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering Tim Gutowski, engages students in project-based learning leveraging the campus as a test bed for ideas. The Spring 2022 cohort of students crafted plans to reach net zero by 2050.
Additional MIT Initiatives
Cambridge Solar Map
A simulation based technique to predict the amount of electricity yield from arbitrarily placing solar PV's anywhere in the world using the City of Cambridge as an example.
Urban Modeling Interface
UMI is a design environment for architects and urban planners interested in modeling the environmental performance of neighborhoods and cities.
Real-Time Energy Monitoring
Device Research Lab and CSAIL. With MIT Green Labs seed funding, the team developed a lab-wide wireless energy monitoring system.
Fault Detection
Danielle Dahan received MIT Sustainability Incubator funding to analyze the effectiveness of fault detection and diagnostics systems using the campus as a testbed.
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Key Living Lab Partners
The Department of Facilities works directly with researchers to implement sustainability projects on campus
The MIT Transit Lab has been an essential partner, combining research with operational thought-leadership on sustainable commuting options.
Researchers in the Joint Program are actively mapping potential flooding on campus.
Channels MIT’s unique culture to create solutions to environmental challenges through activities in education, research, and convening.
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Scales of Impact
The challenges of sustainability are both local and global. Creating transformative solutions requires deep collaboration among community leaders and members on campus, city and global scales.
It starts with you on campus.
We start with you to find solutions at the campus level to serve both the institution's needs as well as to incubate new and big ideas.