The real-time city is now real! 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, a new research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


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SENSEable City Laboratory

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Calabrese F., Kloeckl K., Ratti C., 2007, "Wikicity: Real-Time Urban Environments", IEEE Pervasive Computing, special issue on Urban Computing >> more

"NYC Waterfalls," New York Times, 8 June 2009;

"Emotional Connections," (New York Talk Exchange featured in Newsweek) 10 March 2008 >> more

SENSEable City Lab has funded positions for PhD, Master students, and post-doctoral fellowships. We also host visiting scholars and PhD students >> more

Researchers: Carlo Ratti (Director), Assaf Biderman (Associate Director), Clio Andris, Rex Britter, Francesco Calabrese, Carnaven Chiu, Lorenzo Davoli, Jennifer Dunnam, Filippo dal Fiore, Anyang Hou, E Roon Kang, Gautier Krings, David Lee, Liang Liu, Giusy Di Lorenzo, Mauro Martino, Nashid Nabian, Marina Neophytou, Giovanni de Niederhausern, Dietmar Offenhuber, Christine Outram, Francisco Camara Pereira, Francisca Rojas, Andres Sevtsuk, Musstanser Tinauli, Andrea Vaccari, Caitlin Zacharias, Shaocong Zhou


Past Researchers: Burak Arikan, Daniel Berry, Enrico Costanza, Talia Dorsey, Sarah Dunbar, Chris Fematt, Lucie Boyce Flather, Saba Ghole, Fabien Girardin, Daniel Gutierrez, Gabriel Grise, Guy Hoffman, Sonya Huang, Kristian Kloeckl, Sriram Krishnan, Xiongjiu Liao, Alyson Liss, Jia Lou, David Lu, Andrea Mattiello, Justin Moe, Eugenio Morello, James Patten, Fabio Pinelli, Riccardo Pulselli, Pietro Pusceddu, François Proulx, Martin Ramos, Jon Reades, Bernd Resch, Susannes Seitinger, Najeeb Marc Tarazi, Kenny Verbeeck, Yao Wang, Sarah Williams


Advisory Board: Eran Ben-Joseph, Rex Britter, Gillian Crampton Smith, Joseph Ferreira, Dennis Frenchman, Hiroshi Ishii, Michael Joroff, Bruno Latour, Frank Levy, William Mitchell, Antoine Picon, Adele Santos, Saskia Sassen, Lawrence Vale, Mirko Zardini


Administrative Assistant: Bettina M. Urcuioli