• Login
  • Register

Work for a Member company and need a Member Portal account? Register here with your company email address.

Looking beyond smart cities

Creative Commons

Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Ariel Noyman, City Science group, MIT Media Lab

Group Contact:
Archived
Project Research

Technologies Toolkit

Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Technologies Toolkit. This research aims to translate the knowle…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Real-Time Safety Mapping Through Community Sensors

We developed a small, handheld sensor to track when and where people feel unsafe in urban areas that are still growing or changing. The dev…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

MAS.552 Modeling low-carbon entrepreneurial cities - Students projects - Spring 2022

Climate change presents an existential threat to human civilization, and the IPCC report of August 2021 sounds “a death knell for coal and …
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Corktown Urban Performance

The City Science group collaborated with the Ford company from 2019 to 2020 on modeling the transformation of Corktown, Detroit into a high…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

MAS.552 Modeling Zero-Carbon Cities - Students projects - Fall 2021

Climate change presents an existential threat to human civilization, and the IPCC report of August 2021 sounds like “a death knell for coal…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

City Science Lab @ Ho Chi Minh City

We are pleased to introduce the newest member of the City Science Network, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam. As part of this collaboration,…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Resilient Communities and COVID-19

The City Science group is collaborating on several projects in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the project pages linked b…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Spatial Flux: Body and architecture in space

Structurally, zero gravity means that we do not have to contend with architecture's greatest arch-nemesis, gravity. This opens up a new wor…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

City Science Lab @ Aalto

Aalto University, Finland, and the MIT Media Lab’s City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for urban a…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Vélotropolis: a bike lane supply-demand visual analytics tool

Vélotropolis is a prototype supply-demand visualization tool designed with the aim to quickly highlight the gap in the provision of bike la…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Amoetecture

Amoeba Wall: a context aware wall system. Amoetecture is a set of amoeba-like dynamic spatial elements, including transformable floors, cei…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

CityFARM

By 2030, nine billion people will populate the globe and six out of every 10 will live in cities. The future of global food production will…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Amoeba Wall: A context-aware wall system

Amoeba Wall: A context aware wall system: Amoetecture is a set of amoeba-like dynamic spatial elements, including transformable floors…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

CityScope Riyadh

We recently led a workshop in Saudi Arabia, with staff from the Riyadh Development Authority, to test a new version of our CityScope platfo…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

CityHome

We demonstrate how the CityHome, which has a very small footprint, can function as an apartment two to three times that size. This is achie…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

BoxLab

Designed as a platform to enable rich contextual data collection in real homes, BoxLab uses a broad array of wireless sensing devices to st…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Memento

Memento is a home-based reminder system that allows users to associate customized voice reminders with specific activities in their daily l…
Archived
Project Research

MITes: Portable Wireless Sensors for Studying Behavior in Natural Settings

MITes (MIT environmental sensors) are low-cost, wireless devices for collecting data about human behavior and the state of the environment.…
Archived
Project Research

City Game

Planning a city is a complex task requiring collaboration between multiple stakeholders with different, and often conflicting, goals and ob…
Archived
Project Research

RePlace

RePlace is a 3D data visualization platform that takes the normally invisible activity of sensors and data loggers and overlays that inform…
Archived
Archived
Project Research

CityCar

The CityCar electric automobile, developed and prototyped by Smart Cities, is designed to meet the demand for enclosed personal mobility – …
Archived