The Senseable City Lab will be hosting the second annual Forum on Future Cities: Coding the City on 15-16th November 2012. Building on the success of last year's Forum, we will be taking a more focused look at how technologies are serving urban citizens worldwide and enabling increased civic engagement within the process of city making and building. The Forum will bring together all the various players within the urban space including industry representatives, government officials, NGOs and academics. Further details will be announced shortly.
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| PROJECT UPDATES AND SCIENTIFIC PAPERS |
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Senseable City Lab alongside GE, is partnering with Moritz Stefaner, Drew Hemment, Studio NAND to create real-time manifestations of the worldwide emotional response to the London Olympics. It will be presented as a "sonic sculpture" as the events unfold. |
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| Markus Schlapfer is presenting The scaling of human interactions with city size at Santa Fe Institute's Can there be a Science of Cities? Carlo Ratti will also be joining Benjamin de la Pena, Rachel Cardone, Mike Mathieu, Debbie Strumsky and Melanie Walker to discuss What Problems Should a Theory of Cities Help Solve? |
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30 journalists from all over the world recently visited our new visualization lab in Singapore, part of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. The Lab recently moved to a new space at the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE). |
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| A recent paper by Michael Szell et al. has been published in Nature Scientific Reports. Entitled Understanding mobility in a social petri dish, it examines an entire society of individuals within an online game- looking at the interplay of spatial constraints, socio-economic factors, and patterns of mobility.
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The Senseable City Guide to Moscow draws together proposals from 5 MIT students who participated in this year's Digital Design Workshop. The projects presented examine digital urban interventions that deal with safety and security within Moscow, as well as the provision of tourist infrastructure. Further details available here. |
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| The BMW Guggenheim Lab has begun in Berlin. The Senseable City Lab will lead workshops from 18- 29th July covering a range of topics from Open Source Architecture, Sanitary Cities to Crowdsourced Infrastructure. |
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
- 3rd July, Carlo Ratti presenting at the World Cities Summit, Singapore.
- 4th July, the Lab presenting at the Conference of Global Cities, Urban Metabolism and Waste Management, Singapore.
- 5th July, Carlo Ratti providing a talk at the Giornata della Creativita, Rome.
- 10th July, Senseable City Lab presenting at the Reply Exchange 2012, Milan.
- 10th July, Carlo Ratti presenting at the City to City, Barcelona FAD Award 2012, Barcelona.
- 12-14th July, Markus Schlapfer and Carlo Ratti presenting at Santa Fe's Can there be a science to cities? workshop.
- 14-15th June, Assaf presenting at La Red Innova, Madrid.
- 18th July, Carlo Ratti attending WIRED's Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world dinner, London.
- 24th July, Carlo providing lecture at the joint PhD school of Turin and Milan Polytechnic in Sestrieres.
- 27th July, Lab presenting at 17th Annual High Technology Industry meeting, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
- 18-29th July, Senseable City Lab leads workshops at the BMW Guggenheim Lab.
- 30th July, Carlo Ratti delivering a talk at GE's customer center at the German Gymnasium, London.
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| EXHIBITIONS, PRIZES AND PRESENTATIONS |
- 1st June, Lab participating in the first meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban Europe, Amsterdam.
- 2nd June, Carlo is presenting at the Festival Dell'Economia, Trento, Italy.
- 4th June, Assaf Biderman providing keynote at Morgenstadt: City Insights workshop organized by the Fraunhofer Institute, Berlin.
- 5th June, the Lab is giving a seminar entitled The problem of solid waste, organized by Globo TV and the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 6th June, Assaf Biderman providing keynote at Sensors Expo, Chicago.
- 14-15th June, Assaf presenting at La Red Innova, Madrid.
- 17th June, Carlo presenting at the Festival Delle Idee organized by Repubblica, Perugia, Italy.
- 19th June, Assaf Biderman presenting at Consense 2012, Messe Stuttgart.
- 21st June, Carlo Ratti participating in the BMW i. Born Electric Tour, Rome.
- 26th June, Carlo Ratti attending the Rockefeller Foundation Innovation Forum, New York.
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