Engineering human flourishing

We build hardware, software, and experiments that explore how technology can extend human minds, bodies, senses, and relationships. Here are projects from our residencies and community since 2022.

A person in a white T-shirt, with two electrode pads stuck to their arm, leans over a wooden table to adjust a grey box of electronics and wires. A second person sits at the table's edge with wires attached to their forearm. White curtains hang behind them.

2025

Presented at the residency showcase of the Human Augmentation Summit, MIT Media Lab, on August 23, 2025. Covers are frames from the talk recordings, cropped and color-corrected.

Wearables

Somatic Bloom

Headpieces that project your emotions onto someone else

Transhuman Forms

Olfactory Sensing

Recording and reproducing smell

Affective Augmentation

Vibecheck

Matchmaking where your friends do the swiping

Worlds of Imagination

Monks with Macbooks

AugTwins, SatieLang and Future Humans

Artificial & Cyborg Minds

CodeProse

An IDE built around understanding AI-generated code

Sustainable Technology

Engagic

City council agendas, made readable

Worlds of Imagination

Akiya Collective

A design studio for social spatial technologies

Affective Augmentation

Thy Will

Augmenting your spiritual body

Artificial & Cyborg Minds

AlphaCAD

AlphaFold-inspired AI for engineering design

Sustainable Technology

SUBSTANCE

A recommendation engine for what you want when you're aware

Artificial & Cyborg Minds

Superintelligent.group

A human-AI swarm that spawns virtual companies

Artificial & Cyborg Minds

Control Systems for Space Rovers

A neuromorphic pathfinder for a simulated Mars rover

Worlds of Imagination

XR Control

Intent-based interaction in mixed reality

2024

Wearables

Strange Loops II

BCI cyborg fashion

Wearables

Preemie

A speculative artificial womb and wearable incubator

Wearables

Iris

Capture life as you see it

Sustainable Technology

BigBrother.chat

AI surveillance, made visible

Wearables

Open-Source Wearable AI — Wikipedia 2044

A fictional encyclopedia entry from the future

2023

Affective Augmentation

Enact

Augmenting relationships through AI-mediated role-play

Worlds of Imagination

Imagination Engine I

Generating abstract art through EEG

Wearables

Haptic Ring

A sixth sense for magnetic fields

Affective Augmentation

The Empathy Machine

A play between EMG and electrical muscle stimulation

Affective Augmentation

Emothesia

Interoception and interpersonal senses

Worlds of Imagination

Conceptual Tales

Learning through AI-generated analogies from story worlds

Worlds of Imagination

GameChanger

An application exploring who we could be

Wearables

iHunch

Posture as an interface

Writing

Augmentation as (a Lens for) Living

The residency zine

Writing

2022–2023 Recap

A year of symposiums, hackathons, and installations

2022

Transhuman Forms

LimbX

An eye-gaze-controlled supernumerary limb

Worlds of Imagination

AtomXR

The first natural-language-driven, in-HMD game engine

Wearables

Low-Cost AR Glasses

Affordable, open-source, actually useful

Wearables

ControlXR

A universal haptic interface for AR/VR devices

Worlds of Imagination

The Imagination Machine

Multimodal human-AI storytelling

Artificial & Cyborg Minds

XRAgents

Open-ended conversational agents for digital worlds

More from the archive

These projects are named in our records but have too little documented for a page of their own: works shown inside a larger project, showcase slots without a recording, residency projects listed on their builders’ profiles, and projects from the 2022–2023 Recap. Each opens a short summary of what we know.

2025AugTwinsA human digital twinMateo, Anushhka, Lars
2025SatieLangA programming language for generative and spatial audioMateo, Anushhka, Lars
2025Future HumansA speculative look at humans after thousands of years of technology-shaped evolutionMateo, Anushhka, Lars
2025Input Mechanisms for Autonomous Cars
2025AI-Driven Matchmaking
DaxAI SymbiontVie McCoy & Cassandra Melax
GaudiAn art projectTiberiu-Aurelian Toca
Biosensing wearables that improve cognitive healthYasmeen Hmaidan
Reconstructing images from human brain dataWith the MIT Media LabEllery Buntel
J[AR]VIS
Wormholes

Dax

Listed as a residency project on its builders' community profiles

Gaudi

Listed as a residency project on its builder's community profile

Biosensing wearables that improve cognitive health

Listed as a residency project on its builder's community profile

Reconstructing images from human brain data

Listed as a residency project on its builder's community profile

J[AR]VIS

Intelligent AR assistant that provides real-time information and insights to users within their environment. Users can ask J[AR]VIS for information about anything in their world, facilitating human curiosity in understanding the environment around them.

From the 2022–2023 Recap

Wormholes

How do we form connections across spatial boundaries in a world of digitalization? Audio-visual installation through which people in different places can see and interact with each other, examining the nature of transience, connection, and serendipity.

From the 2022–2023 Recap