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Ariel Noyman, City Science group, MIT Media Lab
Tracking points of unrest in informal settlements in real-time. The sensor is a small, handheld device with a button that people can press …
Climate change presents an existential threat to human civilization, and the IPCC report of August 2021 sounds “a death knell for coal and …
The City Science group collaborated with the Ford company from 2019 to 2020 on modeling the transformation of Corktown, Detroit into a high…
Climate change presents an existential threat to human civilization, and the IPCC report of August 2021 sounds like “a death knell for coal…
We are pleased to introduce the newest member of the City Science Network, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam. As part of this collaboration,…
The City Science group is collaborating on several projects in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the project pages linked b…
Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new wor…
Aalto University, Finland, and the MIT Media Lab’s City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for urban a…
Vélotropolis is a prototype supply-demand visualization tool designed with the aim to quickly highlight the gap in the provision of bike la…
Amoeba Wall: a context aware wall system. Amoetecture is a set of amoeba-like dynamic spatial elements, including transformable floors, cei…
By 2030, nine billion people will populate the globe and six out of every 10 will live in cities. The future of global food production will…
Amoeba Wall: A context aware wall system: Amoetecture is a set of amoeba-like dynamic spatial elements, including transformable floors…
We recently led a workshop in Saudi Arabia, with staff from the Riyadh Development Authority, to test a new version of our CityScope platfo…
We demonstrate how the CityHome, which has a very small footprint, can function as an apartment two to three times that size. This is achie…
Designed as a platform to enable rich contextual data collection in real homes, BoxLab uses a broad array of wireless sensing devices to st…
Memento is a home-based reminder system that allows users to associate customized voice reminders with specific activities in their daily l…
MITes (MIT environmental sensors) are low-cost, wireless devices for collecting data about human behavior and the state of the environment.…
Planning a city is a complex task requiring collaboration between multiple stakeholders with different, and often conflicting, goals and ob…
RePlace is a 3D data visualization platform that takes the normally invisible activity of sensors and data loggers and overlays that inform…
The CityCar electric automobile, developed and prototyped by Smart Cities, is designed to meet the demand for enclosed personal mobility – …
