Jean Baptiste Labrune

Research Affiliate, MIT Media Lab

Cohorts
2026

Jean-Baptiste Labrune is a research affiliate at the MIT Media Lab whose work explores creativity, innovation, and playful cultures. Labrune develops tools that enable children, artists, and scientists to document and investigate their own creative processes, with particular interests in art-science collaboration and exaptive innovation.

Labrune holds a PhD in Computer Science from Université Paris-Sud and INRIA Futurs and has taught at art, design, and scientific institutions across Europe, including the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Beaux-Arts de Paris, and Institut Pasteur.