- City Science
Leticia Izquierdo is a media designer and architect, and a PhD candidate in the City Science group at the MIT Media Lab. Her work explores digital media experiences, collaborative co-construction, and the role of the machine in city making.
In her research and practice, she has helped develop tools (Immersive Scope), technologies (ABM Mobility), and methods (Environmental Psychology and Speculative Design) for better, healthier cities and communities (Women’s Safety and Mobility).
Her larger vision is to create richer, more personal ways of deliberating about the future of cities: systems that adapt to audiences dispersed across time, space, and culture, and spaces and technologies that bring more people together.
Trained in architecture and computational design at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Leticia has exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale (Spanish Pavilion) and the Boston Museum of Science (Community Carbon Impact). Prior to MIT, she led urban decarbonization strategies with EIT Climate and worked on autonomous mobility integration at PIX in Guiyang, China. She also worked with the UNESCO-UN Women Chair on Gender and Technology on bringing gender perspectives into the design and operation of cities, and at the Vastu Shilpa Foundation in India on participatory design of new spaces for communities relocated by urban redevelopment.