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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Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

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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

SENSEable city lab is chairing workshops at UCMedia 2010


"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, German W Aparicio Jr., Rex Britter, Francesco Calabrese, Xiaoji Chen, Carnaven Chiu, Alyx Daly, Jennifer Dunnam, Luigi Farrauto, Filippo dal Fiore, Robert Johnson, E Roon Kang, Kristian Kloeckl, Aaron Koblin, David Lee, Eugene Lee, Giusy Di Lorenzo, Mauro Martino, Vincenzo Manzoni, Stephen Miles, Mahsan Mohsenin, Sey Min, Nashid Nabian, Walter Nicolino, Dietmar Offenhuber, Christine Outram, Francisco Camara Pereira, Santi Phithakkitnukoon, Adam Pruden, Francisca Rojas, Basant Sagar, Christian Somner, Angela Wang, Malima Wolf


Past Researchers: Burak Arikan, Dima Ayyash, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Daniel Berry, Enrico Costanza, Lorenzo Davoli, Talia Dorsey, Sarah Dunbar, Chris Fematt, Lucie Boyce Flather, Saba Ghole, Fabien Girardin, Daniel Gutierrez, Gabriel Grise, Cesar Harada, Guy Hoffman, Anyang Hou, Sonya Huang, Jan Kokol, Gautier Krings, Sriram Krishnan, Xiongjiu Liao, Alyson Liss, Liang Liu, Jia Lou, David Lu, Andrea Mattiello, Justin Moe, Eugenio Morello, Marina Neophytou, Giovanni de Niederhausern, James Patten, Fabio Pinelli, Riccardo Pulselli, Pietro Pusceddu, François Proulx, Rahul Rajagopalan, Martin Ramos, Jon Reades, Bernd Resch, Susannes Seitinger, Andres Sevtsuk, Louis Sirota, Najeeb Marc Tarazi, Musstanser Tinauli, Andrea Vaccari, Kenny Verbeeck, Yao Wang, Sarah Williams, Caitlin Zacharias, Shaocong Zhou


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


Senior Administrative Assistant: Bettina M. Urcuioli
Communications: Lindsey Hoshaw