Gabriela Bila Advincula

City Science
Contact Information:
Groups
  • Urban Futures Research Scientist

Gabriela Bílá is an architect, multimedia designer and artist born in Brasília, Brazil. She uses discussions over the contemporary city as the raw material of her work, combining new media and tangible interfaces to reimagine cities. 

Gabriela graduated at MIT Media Lab and is currently enrolled as a research scientist at the City Science group. Her Master's thesis was exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 Arsenale, featuring an immersive window to life in rapidly urbanizing communities around the world. She also directed the immersive installation Two Mobility Futures 0∞, on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. 

Gabriela Bílá is an architect, multimedia designer and artist born in Brasília, Brazil. She uses discussions over the contemporary city as the raw material of her work, combining new media and tangible interfaces to reimagine cities. 

Gabriela graduated at MIT Media Lab and is currently enrolled as a research scientist at the City Science group. Her Master's thesis was exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 Arsenale, featuring an immersive window to life in rapidly urbanizing communities around the world. She also directed the immersive installation Two Mobility Futures 0∞, on display at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. 

Article Research

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
Course Research

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.
Event Events

Two Mobility Futures 0∞ @Guggenheim Bilbao

A research project that encompasses storytelling, a democratic decision making platform, a city model, and an immersive exhibit.
Article Research

Building a visual world

Article by cinematographer and visual artist Sean Webley 
Project Research

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…
Publication Research

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.
Event Events

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.
Project Research

With(in)

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

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.
Project Research

Grain Prism

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

RGBox

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

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…
Project Research

WITHOUT Identity

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

CITIES WITHOUT

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