Margaret Church

Each year the City Science Network hosts a talks series where City Science Labs present and share their research to the Network and collabo…

The University of Guadalajara (UdeG) established a Master's Degree in City Science (Maestría en Ciencia de la Ciudad or MCCd). The degree i…

The City Science Lab @ Guadalajara was established in 2019 via a cooperation agreement between the University of Guadalajara and the City S…

Members of the MIT City Science team visited Gipuzkoa, Spain in December 2023 for an event, workshop, and meetings with stakeholders. The t…

City Science and Andorra Research + Innovation teams are currently working on two research directions: Food Waste in Andorra, Insight …

The City Science Network is a collaboration of institutions + researchers sharing a the goal of enabling more livable, equitable communities

The MIT team traveled to Concepcion, Chile in May of 2023 for a workshop and presentations with the City Science Lab @ Biobío. The event wa…

Representatives from the City Science Lab @ Shanghai (Tongji University) visited the MIT Media Lab to sign a continuation of their cooperat…

This past year the City Science team welcomed esteemed researchers from throughout the City Science Network to present their current resear…

Alex Berke and Kent Larson of the Media Lab's City Science group co-authored a paper around these issues, recently published in Appetite.

On June 8, 2023, a delegation from the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) visited the MIT Media Lab to meet with faculty and researchers rega…

Final projects created in MAS.S64 City Sci-Fi: Speculative Movie Making Towards the Design of Future Cities.Students were prompted to …

On March 1, 2023 the MIT City Science team hosted an event to formally announce the start of the City Science Lab@Gipuzkoa 

The 2022 City Science Summit is a collaboration between MIT City Science, the City Science Network and the Norman Foster Foundation.

There has been extensive news on this collabotation. For the most recent news on the City Science Lab Biobío, visit their site or instagram…

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…

Two installations at the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Guggenheim Bilbao invite visitors to explore the future of urban mobility

Article by cinematographer and visual artist Sean Webley 

Prototyping and testing space of Two Mobility Futures 0∞.  

How  new mobility patterns influence what carry and possess?

How will new mobility patterns shape the built environment?

For this project, the teams will explore the concept of a 15-minute city using various urban simulations.

The summit theme, Cities WITH(in), challenged the eight City Science Network labs to seek opportunities for their research to impact local s

ARC, a unit of the HCMC Department of Planning and Architecture, is uniquely positioned for this collaboration.

Get to know more about Maggie Church, the program coordinator for the City Science research group, through this MIT SA+P profile.

With(in)captured a fragment of Eva, Gihan, MamaG and their communities’ stories. The nature of this work poses challenges for retelling the…

Below is a selection of  press coverage of the collaboration between the MIT Media Lab City Science group at the University of Guadala…

Lomas del Centinela is a growing community on a hilltop in Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico. It borders the Bosque del Centinela, an important …

Team members from Aalto University visited the Media Lab’s City Science group to discuss ongoing collaborations and new projects.

This online professional short course offers people around the globe an opportunity to learn from Kent Larson and the City Science team as …

The Finding Places project was presented in February 2019 at the Edge of Government conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Kumbhathon is a year-round initiative to identify and address the challenges of cities in developing countries. It is not just a hackathon …

In January 2019, members of the City Science team traveled to Andorra to further explore Andorra’s innovation opportunity to improve urban …

Highlights from the Andorra workshop

Researchers from the City Science group conducted a workshop at HafenCity University's City Science Lab in Hamburg, Germany.

The City Science team hosted the second summit in Shanghai, China in May 2018.

Speakers at the City Science Summit 2018–hosted by the MIT Media Lab City Science group and Tongji University.  

Rapid urbanization causes a need for new mobility modes which may not be totally dependent on cars.

Public buildings account for the greatest energy demands in the Andorran economy. As part of the City Science Lab @Andorra, a team of scien…

Ramesh Raskar receives award at ACM SIGGRAPH 2017Raskar, who directs the Camera Culture research group at the MIT Media Lab, is this y…

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