The Community Innovators Lab (CoLab) is a center for planning and development within the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP).
CoLab supports the development and use of knowledge from excluded communities to deepen civic engagement, improve community practice, inform policy, mobilize community assets, and generate shared wealth.
Full story of international Street Chair day at: http://colabradio.mit.edu/category/street-chairs/ Installation above by John Claudia Paraschiv.
Green Grease in Sao Paulo: A Student Reflection
McKinley Sumner heard a sound his backyard one day, and realized something wasn't right. When he walked to the edge of his property line, he found tractors from the abutting coal mine digging into his land. Soon he saw his local creek, once clean and healthy, turn ...
Elmer Lloyd, a proud former coal miner, struggles to come to terms with his prize fishpond becoming a polluted acid pond at the hands of a coal company.
Knowledge Harvesting with the Mel King Fellows
Kristal Peters, MIT alumna 2010, talks about her motivations for working in Haiti post-earthquake. Kristal is part of a team that is working on housing and community redevelopment policies in Haiti.
Sixteen small business owners share their stories, demonstrating small business development is one way to transform the post-industrial city of Camden, NJ. This photo slide show was produced from research completed for a Masters in City Planning thesis. To learn more, ...
A video of Nepali language classes run by volunteer MIT graduate students. For more information about this initiative, visit: http://colabradio.mit.edu/?cat=522
Panoramic view of the Río Piedras Aqueduct, site of a Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico project.
Read the full story of how Newton County licked Atlanta sprawl, the recession, and more here.
Here is one clip of footage from Port Au Prince two months after the earthquake. A small team of MIT alumni, professors, fellows, students, and staff went to Haiti in March 2010 to help formulate a housing reconstruction plan. Here is one clip from our visit.
Here is one clip of footage from Port Au Prince two months after the earthquake. A small team of MIT alumni, professors, fellows, students, and staff went to Haiti in March 2010 to help formulate a housing reconstruction plan. Here is one clip from our visit. Boulevard Jean-Jacques ...
CoLab summer interns Zach Mills and Chris Drakeford made a movie about a new MIT Campus icon: The Clovertruck. Music Tracks: gifaproducer: Crazy Love, The Motorcycle Song oldDog: Shame
