Leticia Izquierdo Garcia
- City Science
Leticia Izquierdo is a media designer, architect, and PhD candidate in the City Science group at the MIT Media Lab. Her work explores digital media experiences, collaborative design, and emerging technologies as agents in city making.
Her research brings futures anthropology into dialogue with participatory and computational design 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.
Before MIT, she worked in Madrid with the UNESCO-UN Women Chair on Gender and Technology, bringing gender perspectives into large-scale urban planning. In India, she collaborated with the Vastu Shilpa Foundation on participatory planning grounded in local culture and place, for communities relocated by urban redevelopment. In Guiyang, China, she worked at PIX on extending autonomous vehicle technology beyond cars into new urban experiences and robotic forms.