Kent Larson
Professor of the Practice
Director, City Science Initiative (MIT Media Lab)
Primary DLC
MIT Media Lab
MIT Room:
E15-368
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Design and Computation Technology
Responsive Urban Housing
Ubiquitous Technologies
Living Lab Experiments
City Science Initiative
Responsive Urban Housing
Ubiquitous Technologies
Living Lab Experiments
City Science Initiative
Research Summary
Larson is an architect, director of City Science at the MIT Media Lab, and co-director of the Norman Foster Institute on Sustainable Cities based in Madrid. His research is focused on urban and architectural design, urban modeling and simulation, transformable micro-housing, living laboratories, ultralight autonomous mobility, and algorithmic dynamic zoning.
The City Science research group proposes that new strategies must be found to create the places where people live and work in addition to the mobility systems that connect them, in order to meet the profound challenges of the future.
The City Science research group proposes that new strategies must be found to create the places where people live and work in addition to the mobility systems that connect them, in order to meet the profound challenges of the future.
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Projects
December 13, 2017MIT Media Lab
Singapore Pedestrian Accessibility
Principal Investigator Kent Larson
December 13, 2017MIT Media LabcityIO: Cloud-Based Urban Data Platform
Principal Investigator Kent Larson
December 13, 2017MIT Media LabTorque: Open-Source Autonomous Platform for Educational and Service Design Applications
Principal Investigator Kent Larson
December 13, 2017MIT Media LabHuman-Machine Cooperation (HMC) for Lightweight Autonomous Robots
Principal Investigator Kent Larson
December 13, 2017MIT Media LabUrban Tattoo: Scalable Urban Infrastructure for Human-Machine Cohabitation
Principal Investigator Kent Larson
December 13, 2017MIT Media LabService Deployment Simulation and Optimization for Mixed-Use Delivery Fleets
Principal Investigator Kent Larson
August 18, 2016MIT Media LabRoboscooter: Clean, Green Mobility for Today's Crowded Cities
Principal Investigator Kent Larson
August 18, 2016MIT Media LabCity I/O: Cloud-Based Urban Data Platform
Principal Investigator Kent Larson
May 12, 2015MIT Media LabCityScope Mark I: Real-Time Data Observatory
Principal Investigator Kent Larson
May 12, 2015MIT Media LabCityScope Walkability Access in Riyadh
Principal Investigator Kent Larson
May 12, 2015MIT Media LabPersuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV): An Alternative Autonomous Revolution from the Bike Lane
Principal Investigator Kent Larson
January 10, 2014MIT Media LabCityCar: Vehincles for Modern Cities
Principal Investigator Kent Larson
June 4, 2012MIT Media LabCity Science Initiative (CSI): Urban Systems for a Post-Oil, Connected World
Principal Investigator Kent Larson
July 27, 2011MIT Media LabWockets: Real-Time Activity Recognition on Mobile Phones
Principal Investigator Kent Larson
August 25, 2008MIT Media LabMIT Smart Customization Group (SCG)
Principal Investigator Kent Larson
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Video
Kent Larson - RD2017
City of the future: how changes to physical and digital infrastructure will effect and be effected by mobility
2017 MIT Research and Development Conference