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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Researchers: Carlo Ratti (Director), Assaf Biderman (Associate Director), Alexander Amini, Afian Anwar, Rex Britter, Aurimas Bukauskas, Riccardo Campari, Leigh Christie, Matthias Danzmayr, Sebastian Grauwin, Kael Greco, Christopher Green, Cesare Griffa, Benedikt Gross, Chaogui Kang, Kristian Kloeckl, Kevin Kung, Vincent Lamoureux, David Lee, Joey Lee, NJ Namju Lee, Sunny Long, Otto Ng, Dietmar Offenhuber, Tao Pei, Tim Robertson, Markus Schlapfer, Oliver Senn, Kyuha Shim, Stanislav Sobolevsky, Michael Szell, Yaniv Turgeman, Anthony Vanky, Mike Xia, Eddie Xue, Cagri Hakan Zaman


Lab Manager: Gabriela Gomes
Administrative Assistant: Lauren DeRusha


Past Researchers: Anwar Al-Khateeb, Clio Andris, German W Aparicio Jr., Burak Arikan, Dima Ayyash, Eric Baczuk, Seckin Basturk, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Daniel Berry, Francesco Calabrese, Xiaoji Chen, Carnaven Chiu, Andrea Corti, Enrico Costanza, Pedro Cruz, Dominik Dahlem, Filippo dal Fiore, Alyx Daly, Lorenzo Davoli, Salvatore Di Dio, Talia Dorsey, Sarah Dunbar, Jennifer Dunnam, Luigi Farrauto, Chris Fematt, Lucie Boyce Flather, Ian Ardouin-Fumat, Saba Ghole, Fabien Girardin, Daniel Gutierrez, Gabriel Grise, Damiano Gui, Karen Hao, Cesar Harada, Guy Hoffman, Teerayut Horanont, Lindsey Hoshaw, Anyang Hou, Sonya Huang, Robert Johnson, E Roon Kang, Aaron Koblin, Jan Kokol, Gautier Krings, Sriram Krishnan, Eugene Lee, Xiongjiu Liao, Alyson Liss, Charles Liu, Liang Liu, Giusy Di Lorenzo, Jia Lou, David Lu, Diego Maniloff, Nic Marchesi, Claudio Martani, Mauro Martino, Andrea Mattiello, Vincenzo Manzoni, Stephen Miles, Sey Min, Justin Moe, Mahsan Mohsenin, Eugenio Morello, Gabriele Musella, Nashid Nabian, Brandon Nadres, Till Nagel, Marina Neophytou, Walter Nicolino, Giovanni de Niederhausern, Christine Outram, Paolo Patelli, James Patten, Francisco Camara Pereira, David Perez, Arthur Pesaturo, Santi Phithakkitnukoon, Francesco Pilla, Fabio Pinelli, Adam Pruden, Riccardo Pulselli, Pietro Pusceddu, François Proulx, Rahul Rajagopalan, Martin Ramos, Jon Reades, Bernd Resch, Prudence Robinson, Stephane Roche, Francisca Rojas, Basant Sagar, Darshan Santani, Stefan Seer, Susannes Seitinger, Andres Sevtsuk, Aaron Siegel, James Simard, Luca Simeone, Louis Sirota, Christian Somner, Zhenyu Song, Najeeb Marc Tarazi, Musstanser Tinauli, Vlad Trifa, Andrea Vaccari, Kenny Verbeeck, Nathan Villagaray-Carski, Angela Wang, Yao Wang, Sarah Williams, Malima Wolf, Ritwik Yadav, Mark Yen, Dustin York, Yuji Yoshimura, 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, Antoine Picon, Adele Santos, Saskia Sassen, Lawrence Vale, Mirko Zardini