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Kent Larson

Professor of the Practice
Director, City Science Initiative (MIT Media Lab)

Primary DLC

MIT Media Lab

MIT Room: E15-368
(617) 253-8799
https://www.media.mit.edu/people/kll/overview/

Assistant

David Robertson
(603) 232-7777
dmr@media.mit.edu

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Design and Computation Technology
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.

Recent Work

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