Looking beyond smart cities

Chameleon is a wall mounted sensor system that uses machine learning to classify building activity.We present the system as an alternativ...

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

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ is a research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an ...

Climate change presents an existential threat to human civilization, and the IPCC report of August 2021 sounds like “a death knell for co...

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What will be the impact of shared autonomous micro-mobility systems? Will autonomy make the micro-mobility systems even more attractive?&...

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

Tangible Swarm is a tool that displays relevant information about a robotics system (e.g., multi-robot, swarm, etc.) in real time wh...

RoboScope is a transformable, tangible-interface developed for the CityScope platform. This interface allows for on-demand, three-di...

Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science group proposes the Informality Crowdsourced Database. This platfor...

Protegiendo el bosque del CentinelaPromover y brindar las herramientas necesarias en el comportamiento del fuego y en el manejo de incide...

Huertos Comunitarios Keyhole en Lomas del Centinela Keyhole Community Gardens in Lomas del Centinela

Somos centinelas: hacia una educación sin barreras de accesoWe are Sentinels: Towards an education without access barriersLa Un...

The Algorithmic Zoning project explores dynamically reconfigurable incentives that encourage the pro-social development of urban areas so...

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Country-scale analysis of high-resolution mobility patterns and infection spreadThe MI...

This project aims to explore how the Covid-19 pandemic might have further increased social inequalities by impacting those who were ...

Breathing Planet is an actuated expandable object that uses an iris structure as the underlying mechanism. It has a light source in the c...

Following The Power of Without agenda, the City Science Group proposes the Technologies Toolkit.  This research aims to translate th...

 UN Habitat recognized in its Global Report on Human Settlements an effort to address informality with unconventional approaches, fo...

Novel Antenna-Based Controller for Musical ExpressionTune Field is a 3-dimensional tangible interface that combines and alters previously...

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

Agent Based Modeling for behaviours, building occupancy loads and risk infection at the University of Guadalajara. In collaboration ...

Whispers Of The Mountain is a voice activated sensor fusion system mounted on downhill snow skis. The system can record 6 axis accelerati...

Planning Through Deliberation and DataJettSen is  a system architecture design for an open source mobile sensor fusion implementatio...

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

A lightweight research platform to develop autonomous technology Designed to transform bicycle-sharing systems into an on-demand mob...

Governments and researchers around the world are implementing digital contact tracing solutions to stem the spread of infectious disease,...

With(in) is a multi-stage project that includes an exhibit, installation, qualitative exploration, and visual storytelling.This is a...

An interactive  platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs ÉlyséesCityScope Champs-Élysée is a ...

Agent-Based Modelling for water management: a study case of the Bac Hung Hai irrigation system in the Red River Delta, Vietnam.

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

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

Human activities, such as research, innovation and industry, concentrate disproportionately in large cities. The ten most innovative citi...

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

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

SoapCam is a WIP Human Computer Interaction system that motivates proper hand washing routines."Hand hygiene is the most important measur...

This is a two-part project. One part is about reality. The other part is science fiction. Both are about mobile, blockchain, and cryptogr...

Proxymix is a visualization tool to understand the influence of spatial configuration on human collaboration. This agent-based model at t...

How do you image a city that doesn't exist? DeepScope is a novel platform for interactive, real-time, and setup-less urban design vi...

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

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

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

College of Design and Innovation of Tongji University, Shanghai, and the MIT Media Lab's City Science group are co-developing a version o...

Unfolding the way we move. Mobility has shaped the built environment since humans started settling together. From industrial towns t...

An environment of plants and mirrors that extends beyond the terrarium walls. 

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

This project aims to create a modular platform for exploring micro-kitchens that are culture specific. Cooking is a personal experience t...

Autonomous vehicles (AVs), drones, and other types of robots will revolutionize our way of traveling and understanding urban space. In or...

MoCho (short for "Mobility Choices") is a CityScope module focused on mobility choices and societal impacts. This tool helps pr...