The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory
Assaf Biderman, co-director of the MIT SENSEable City Laboratory, discusses his lab's work.
11 (Pecha Kuchas followed by discussion panel) Carlo Ratti Director, SENSEable City Lab, MIT Panelists: Clara Gaymard, CEO & National Executive, GE France, Lorenza Martínez, Undersecretary of Industry and Commerce, Ministry of Economy, Mexico, Karoline Steen, Head of ...
digital water pavillion in use in front of the 2008 Wolrd Expo in Zaragoza
digital water pavillion in use in front of the Zaragoza 2008 World Expo
7 Assaf Biderman, Associate Director, SENSEable City Lab, MIT
12 Filippo dal Fiore, Co-Head of Partners Relations and Technology Transfer, SENSEable City Lab, MIT
A project by the SENSEable City Lab, MIT. Today, more than a third of global CO2 emissions are generated by transportation. CO2GO, a new type of smartphone application, is an effective tool that assists in making smarter individual transportation choices to collectively reduce carbon ...
9 (Pecha Kuchas followed by discussion panel) Moderator: Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Visiting Lecturer, MIT Panelists: Rich Friedrich, Director of the Strategy and Innovation Office, HP Labs, Eric Paulos, Assistant Professor Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, ...
5 (Pecha Kuchas followed by discussion session) The human experience of technologies within cities, and how it is impacting life and lifestyle changes Moderator: Adam Bly, Founder and CEO of Seed Media Group Panelists: Joeseph Paradiso, Director Responsive Environments Group, MIT, Skylar ...
10 (Pecha Kuchas followed by discussion panel) Moderator: Carol Coletta, President & CEO, CEOs for Cities Panelists: Simon Willis, Vice President Worldwide Public Sector, Internet Business Solutions Group, Cisco, Gianluca Salvatori, President and CEO, Manifattura domani, Pedro Miranda, ...
6 (Pecha Kuchas followed by discussion session) Moderator: Mathieu Lefevre, Executive Director, New Cities Foundation Panelists: Martin Fleming, Vice President IBM, Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, Beatriz Lara Bartolome,? Chief Innovation Officer, ...
4 (Pecha Kuchas and discussion session) Past, present and future casestudies of technologies in urban environments Moderator: Dennis Frenchman, Leventhal Professor of Urban Design and Planning, MIT Panelists: Stefan Köhler, Mayor of Friedrichshafen (Skype), Nicola Villa, Global Director of ...
