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Gabriela Bila Advincula

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Gabriela Bìlá is a Brazilian architect and multimedia artist, currently a PhD candidate and researcher at the MIT Media Lab's City Science group, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She focuses on discussions about the contemporary city as the core of her work, using interactive-immersive interfaces to explore how humans will adapt to technological impacts on future cities.

Her work has been featured at various venues, including the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Venice Biennale, SXSW, Boston Museum of Science, EXPO, Cooper Hewitt New York, Espaço Itaú Cultural, Museu Nacional da República, SESCs São Paulo and Instituto Tomie Ohtake.

Beyond research and design practice, Gabriela is an educator who has developed and instructed experimental courses and workshops worldwide, utilizing science fiction and media production to envision future cities.

Gabriela believes that cities are, ultimately, places of encounter. Encounters catalyze change. Better cities can be transformative.

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Gabriela Bílá Advincula’s vision for cities in motion

Two installations at the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Guggenheim Bilbao invite visitors to explore the future of urban mobility
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THEME | Urban Futures of the Amazon

Will the city swallow the forest, or will the forest reclaim the city? Or can we find a third way?The 21st century is a critical momen…
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The Community Carbon Impact

The Community Carbon Impact is a data visualization installation created by the MIT City Science group for the Boston Museum of Science's y…
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SXSW 2025 - Mobility Utopias and the Future of Urban Experiences

This presentation facilitates a conversation on possible futures of mobility, especially focusing on human experiences. Sharing our methodo…
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The Future of Mobility and AI: A Design Challenge

​How will mobility and AI shape mid-western cities? How can the human body connect to vehicles, creating seamless interfaces that augm…
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Methods of Visually Translating Reality

August 4 – 7 (SUN  – TUE), 20249–11:00pm EDTThis is an online 4-day workshop consisting of software tutorials and rapid prototyping. P…
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Atlas of the Unseen Shanghai 未见之图

In this intensive and immersive 5-day workshop, students will dive into the underlying currents shaping Shanghai's future, guided by an awa…
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Immersive Scope: A Conversational Framework for Collaborative Design

Immersive Scope is an immersive environment designed to help people visualize complex urban designs in a more engaging and accessible …
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MAS.S66 - City Sci-fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Ecology Futures

City Sci-fi  // Fall 2023 A City Science workshopFIRST CLASS:    September 13th (WED) - 2pm, E15-359Instructors:&n…
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Living Knitwork Pavilion

One of the highlighted projects merging technology with the beauty and craftsmanship of fine arts, the Living Knitwork Pavilion recently re…
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Two Mobility Futures 0∞ @Guggenheim Bilbao
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MAS.S64 - City Sci-fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Future Cities

This class is a hands-on workshop on fiction narrative and movie making.
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Building a visual world

Article by cinematographer and visual artist Sean Webley 
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City Sci-fi Spring'23: Students Projects

Final projects created in MAS.S64 City Sci-Fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Future Cities.Students were prompted to …
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Explorando soluciones locales para retos globales: re-imaginando la Costanera de Concepción

Exploring Local Solutions to Global Challenges: Reimagining the Costanera de Concepción is an event that encompasses a public program on th…
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City Sci-fi Fall '23: Student Projects

Final projects created in  MAS.S66 City Sci-Fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Ecology Futures, taught in Fall 20…
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ReImagining Mobility: Designing a zero commuting future

ReImagining Mobility: Designing Zero-Commuting Cities is an event welcoming thought leaders in transportation, urban planning, and policy a…
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Two Mobility Futures 0∞ at the Autostadt Museum

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and …
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Two Mobility Futures 0∞ @Guggenheim Bilbao

A research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an immersive exhibit.
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ReImagining Mobility event discusses the importance of collaboration and innovation for a zero-commuting city

How can we design a zero-commuting city? What are the important attributes of a walkable community? How can we invent the future of mobilit…
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Two Mobility Futures 0∞

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an im…
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With(in): Three women, three informal settlements, and the rituals of the meal as a microcosm of urban life

Advincula, Larson 2021. With(in): Three women, three informal settlements, and the rituals of the meal as a microcosm of urban life.
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City Science presents With(in) @ La Biennale di Venezia 2021

The City Science group presents an immersive window into the worlds of three women in three rapidly urbanizing areas of the world.
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With(in)

With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a s…
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Field research, film, and sharing meals

It’s said that once you eat someone’s food, you become part of them too. I am for sure a different person after the With(in) project.
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Grain Prism

The Grain Prism is a hybrid musical instrument that combines granular synthesis and live audio recordings. Presented in a capacitive touch …
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RGBox

The RGBox is an experimental game to teach fundamentals of additive color mixing theory. As opposed to the behavior of pigments that g…
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CityScope Cooper Hewitt

We are at the dawn of a mobility revolution, where autonomous vehicles will replace cars controlled by humans. We can imagine this developi…
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WITHOUT Identity

Graphics on incompletenessThe City Science Summit 2019, CITIES WITHOUT, explored a future without top-down and obsolete systems. During the…
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CITIES WITHOUT

This City Science Summit explores a future WITHOUT top-down and increasingly obsolete heavy infrastructure.