5:45 pm - 6:30 pm
Senseable City Lab
Assaf Biderman, Associate Director of MIT SENSEable City Lab
Small and distributed computers have become an integral part of our lives. With the
ubiquity of wireless connectivity they now recombine with our physical environment.
Information about urban conditions can be captured in real-time, processed, and fed back
into cities, enabling new ways to monitor, understand, and experience them.
We can synchronize transportation systems, allocate energy in a smarter way, reuse our waste
optimally, or respond more rapidly to emergencies. More importantly, the citizen is in
the center of this momentous change. When empowered by real-time information about
what’s happening around us, our capacity to make smarter decisions and new types of
contribution is greatly enhanced. Like the Internet, the networked city invites participation
from individuals, organizations, companies, and governments to program and design the digital
architectures that will craft our urban future.
In this talk, various projects that explore this new condition will be discussed: real-time
maps that use the digital exhaust of communication networks to describe urban mobility and
environmental conditions, the flows of locatable trash, and mobile applications that
automatically track an individual's CO2 output.
Suggested Readings
Description of MIT SENSEable Lab
MIT SENSEable City Lab website
Additional Readings
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