MIT Media Lab's Journal of Design and Science Is a Radical New Kind of Publication | WIRED

The MIT Media Lab has launched a new kind of academic journal that embodies its "antidisciplinary" ethos.

Save this story Save this story Last fall Joi Ito, the director of the MIT Media Lab, stood onstage during the Lab’s 30th anniversary celebration and made a declaration. “Connecting science and design is the future of the Media Lab,” he told audience members, many of whom are experienced in both disciplines. The subtext of Ito’s statement was that the world is quickly changing. Science, design, art, and engineering, long considered their own areas of focus, are no longer domains to be explored in isolation, but together, in the hopes of expediting progress and discovery. Ito's announcement was

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