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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 ...

in City Science
Carson Smuts · Gabriela Bila Advincula +8 more
#design #architecture #art +2 more
Project Research

Understanding the 15 Minute City

City Science researchers are engaging in an exploratory process to understand, develop, and model a platform with a focus on the 15-minut...

in City Science
Diego Antonelli · Pietro Dicosta +7 more
#design #human-computer interaction #civic technology +1 more
Project Research

A Co-Design Experience: Technologies for Rural Sustainability in Colombia | 2022 Edition

​🚨Applications to the 2022 Co-Design Experience are now closed🚨OverviewThe development of technology in rural environments in Colombia is...

in Space Enabled
Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar
#design #agriculture #civic technology
Project Research

OpenCBDC

ResearchTechnical Paper | Executive Summary | GithubAboutIntroductionOpenCBDC is an open source project to engage in ...

in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
Thaddeus Dryja · Thaddeus Dryja +4 more
#banking and finance #civic technology #economy +2 more
Project Research

Private Location Data for the Public Good and Urban Understanding

There is a continuous and ubiquitous collection of precise, timestamped, geolocation data from apps and devices, being amassed by private...

in City Science
Alex Berke · Esteban Moro Egido +2 more
#civic technology #privacy #security +2 more
Project Research

RealTalk for Change Boston

A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s C...

in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Sinclair Target · Wonjune Kang +14 more
#artificial intelligence #civic media #civic technology +5 more
Project Research

Regional Technology Co-Creation and Transfer Ecosystems in Latin America

🚨Application to the 2022 Co-Design Experience here bit.ly/codesign2022 🚨Historically, the term technology transfer has been ass...

in Space Enabled
Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar · Danielle Wood
#design #civic technology #technology +1 more
Project Research

The Power of Without

The Power of WITHOUT is a research theme in the City Science group. The theme proposes that heavy infrastructure solutions are not financ...

in City Science
Leticia Izquierdo Garcia · Kent Larson +5 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +18 more
Project Research

Participatory Sensemaking

How might we collect rich and complex data from community dialogues, analyze and make sense of that data? How might we design output...

in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou · Maggie Hughes
#design #civic technology #communications
Project Research

City Science Lab @ Hamburg

MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop CityScope for the neighborhood of Rothenburgsort in Hamburg, Germany. Th...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Margaret Church +3 more
#computer vision #augmented reality #civic technology +3 more
Project Research

The Atlas of Inequality

Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaura...

in Human Dynamics
Esteban Moro Egido · Alex 'Sandy' Pentland +2 more
#civic technology #economy #urban planning +4 more
Project Research

Curriculum: Power + AI

Check out the project site here. The pursuit of justice in AI requires more than just tweaking the numbers. It requires us to “study up”...

Chelsea Barabas
#artificial intelligence #civic technology
Project Research

Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...

in City Science
Abhishek Agarwal · Kent Larson +8 more
#robotics #design #artificial intelligence +11 more
Project Research

Resilience Across Scales

Resilience Across Scales is a research theme that encompasses the work of a few Media Lab Principal Investigators and their research grou...

in City Science
Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar · Cristina Panzarini +3 more
#design #architecture #civic technology +1 more
Project Research

[bike] swarm

As bikes navigate city streets after dark, they are often equipped with lights. The lights make the bikes visible to cars or other bikers...

in City Science
Alex Berke · Kent Larson +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #architecture +16 more
Project Research

Gobo

Your social media. Your rules.Gobo is an experiment, not a startup. We’re building it to change the conversation on social media and imag...

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
Belen Saldias Fuentes · Dennis Jen +5 more
#artificial intelligence #civic media #civic technology +2 more
Project Research

Algorithmic Justice League

www.ajl.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. This f...

Ethan Zuckerman · Joy Buolamwini
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #civic media +11 more
Project Research

Theme | CityScope

City Science researchers are developing a slew of tangible and digital platforms dedicated to solving spatial design and urban planning c...

in City Science
Markus Elkatsha · Kent Larson +7 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +20 more
Project Research

ChampScope

Virtual CityScope Champs-Élysées is an interactive and immersive platform that explores the future of Paris’ most important street.

in City Science
Ariel Noyman · Arnaud Grignard +3 more
#architecture #civic technology #transportation +1 more
Project Research

Income, Race, Bikes

Is the placement of bike-share docks equitable?This interactive map explores the question visually.The map shows the addition of bike-sha...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Alex Berke
#design #civic technology #cartography +2 more
Project Research

RelatiVotey

Many people think their vote doesn't count—that a single vote would not change an election's outcome—and they stay home on Election Day. ...

in Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman
#civic media #civic technology #data visualization
Project Research

LinkedOut: Codesigning societal reentry with returning citizens

LinkedOut aims to define and build solutions to facilitate societal reentry for formerly incarcerated individuals.In collaboration with t...

in Civic Media
Victoria Palacin · Ethan Zuckerman +1 more
#design #human-computer interaction #civic technology +4 more
Project Research

CityScope PlayGround: MIT East Campus

This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for ...

in City Science
Kent Larson · Ariel Noyman +1 more
#computer vision #architecture #augmented reality +5 more
Project Research

Actionable Auditing: Coordinated bias disclosure study

Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the imp...

in Civic Media
Joy Buolamwini
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #civic media +8 more
Project Research

CityMatrix

An Urban Decision-Support System Augmented by Artificial IntelligenceThe decision-making process in urban design and urban planning is ou...

in City Science
Yan Zhang · Kent Larson +2 more
#architecture #artificial intelligence #civic technology +8 more
Project Research

Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV)

An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehic...

in City Science
Abhishek Agarwal · Yi-Cheng Jiang +6 more
#design #architecture #civic technology +7 more
Project Research

Gender Shades

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
#design #computer vision #art +16 more
Project Research

Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon

In September 2014, 150 parents, engineers, designers, and healthcare practitioners gathered at the MIT Media Lab for the "Make the Breast...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Catherine D'Ignazio +4 more
#civic technology #consumer electronics #politics +2 more

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