Principal Investigator Carlo Ratti
Co-investigators Assaf Biderman , Paolo Santi , Umberto Fugiglando , Irina Franklin , Katja Schechtner
Project Website http://senseabledb.mit.edu/
Project Start Date May 2006
The real-time city is real! As layers of networks and digital information blanket urban space, new approaches to the study of the built environment are emerging. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed—as are the tools we use to design them. The mission of the Senseable City Laboratory -- a research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- is to anticipate these changes and study them from a critical point of view.
Not bound by the methodologies of a single field, the Lab is characterized by an omni-disciplinary approach: it speaks the language of designers, planners, engineers, physicists, biologists and social scientists.
Senseable is as fluent with industry partners as it is with metropolitan governments, individual citizens and disadvantaged communities. Through design and science, the Lab develops and deploys tools to learn about cities—so that cities can learn about us.
MIT’s Senseable City Lab is against racism and all forms of discrimination. We encourage applications from minorities and other under-represented groups. MIT graduate students are welcome to apply at any time to our open positions. Apply today and join us in our mission of making cities more diverse and inclusive.