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New journal from MITPress

Journal of Design and Science MITPress


The MIT Media Lab and the MIT Press have jointly launched the Journal of Design and Science (JoDS), an online, open-access journal that aims to capture the antidisciplinary ethos of the MIT Media Lab while opening new connections between science and design. Head over to jods.mitpress.mit.edu to learn more and read the first few contributions from Joichi Ito, Neri Oxman, Danny Hillis, and Kevin Slavin.

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