Research — MIT Media Lab

Scalable Cooperation

Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence

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Collective Learning

Transforming data into knowledge

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Open Agriculture (OpenAg)

Open Agriculture Initiative (OpenAg)

Social Machines

Promoting deeper learning and understanding in human networks

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Narrative Visualization for Distributed Urban Interventions

The use of data-driven methods to examine dynamic spaces, relationships, and mechanisms within an urban environment frames the city as a ...

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Autonomous micro-mobility simulation study

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

Best New Ideas in Money: The road ahead for public transit

A discussion of the future of public transportation, with a highlight of the Autonomous Bicycle project led by PhD student Naroa Coretti.

Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

Camera Culture

Making the invisible visible–inside our bodies, around us, and beyond–for health, work, and connection

CityScope Champs-Élysées

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

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Synthetic Apiary

The Synthetic Apiary proposes a new kind of environment, bridging urban and organismic scales by exploring one of the most important orga...

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Opera of the Future

Extending expression, learning, and health through innovations in musical composition, performance, and participation

Ori’s partnership with Marriott Hotels, announced at CES this week

Spinoff Ori, co-founded by alum Hasier Larrea, has announced an agreement to partner with Marriott Hotels’ Design Lab.

Sculpting Evolution

Cultivating wisdom through evolutionary and ecological engineering

Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

The Power of Without

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

The barriers to innovation

Opera of the Future alum Joe Chung writes that Boston is ideally suited to become a hub of the world’s longevity-innovation ecosystem.

City Science Lab @ Aalto

Aalto University, Finland, and the MIT Media Lab’s City Science group are co-developing a version of the MIT CityScope platform for urban...

City Science Lab @ Hamburg

MIT City Science is working with HafenCity University to develop CityScope for the neighborhood of Rothenburgsort in Hamburg, Germany. Th...

City Science Lab @ Taipei

NTUT, MIT sign ‘smart’ development agreement

City Science Lab @ Andorra

Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally ...

City Science Lab @ Toronto

City Science Lab Toronto was established in cooperation with Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. It started in 2018 and is...

City Science Network

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science LabsWe are developing concepts and key technology tha...

Mobility patterns are associated with experienced income segregation in large US cities

Moro, E., Calacci, D., Dong, X. et al. Mobility patterns are associated with experienced income segregation in large US cities. Nat Commun 12, 4633 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24899-8

The Atlas of Inequality

Segregation is hurting our societies and especially our cities. But economic inequality isn't just limited to neighborhoods. The restaura...

Driving commuters toward sustainable options

How data from Access MIT informs flexible, sustainable commutes as staff returns to campus.

Norman Foster launches 'On Cities' masterclass series

A new masterclass video series from the Norman Foster Foundation features leading experts in the fields of architecture, urbanism, and more.

Kent Larson on Resilient Communities and Sustainability | "On Cities" Masterclass Series

Kent Larson considers the societal stressors caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and those that the world will face post-pandemic.

Biennale Architettura 2021 - Presentation

The 17th International Architecture Exhibition, “How will we live together?" includes work from the City Science research group.

Andorra | Dynamic Urban Planning

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.Research in dynamic tools, mix users (citizens, workers) amenities, services, and land...

Travel Demand and Traffic Prediction with Cell Phone Data: Calibration by Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints

Doorley, R., Alonso, L., Grignard, A., Maciá, N. and Larson, K., 2020, September. Travel Demand and Traffic Prediction with Cell Phone Data: Calibration by Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints. In 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

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Ariel Noyman's work on CityScope selected for the Young Talent exhibition at Hebei International Industrial Design Week (HIDW)

The “HIDW Young Talent” exhibition addressed three topics: Manufacturing of Tomorrow, Future Craft, and City Catalyst.

Theme | Mobility On-Demand

Urban populations around the world are rapidly growing. To improve livability, urban residents must reduce dependency on fossil fuels and...

[bike] swarm

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

CityScopeAR: Urban Design and Crowdsourced Engagement Platform

Noyman, Sakai, Larson 2018. CityScopeAR: Urban Design and Crowdsourced Engagement Platform. CHI 2018, 4,2007

Human Dynamics

Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion

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Streetchange

Computer vision uncovers predictors of physical urban change

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City Science team wins Best Student Paper Award at Computing Conference 2020

Congratulations to City Science researchers Alex Berke, Jason Nawyn, Thomas Sanchez Lengeling, and group head Kent Larson!

Reversed Urbanism

Predicting Urban Performance through Behavioral Patterns in Temporal Telecom DataThis study explores a novel method to analyze diverse be...

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AI, Automation, Labor, and Cities: How to map the future of work

Should workers worry about automation and AI?Many workers, policy makers, and researchers are asking themselves exactly this question. Bu...

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Moral Machine

The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...

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Theme | CityScope

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

ChampScope

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

Urban Swarms: A new approach for autonomous waste management

A. L. Alfeo et al., "Urban Swarms: A new approach for autonomous waste management," 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2019, pp. 4233-4240.

The Deep Image of the City

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...

CityScope Volpe

CityScope Volpe is demonstrating most of the urban planning, analysis, and prediction features developed for the CityScope project. The s...

Aalto Campus-as-a-Service Simulations

How can we get more value from the same buildings? Cities contain many different resources and spaces and typically, these resources...

Reversed urbanism: Inferring urban performance through behavioral patterns in temporal telecom data

Noyman, A., Doorley, R., Xiong, Z., Alonso, L., Grignard, A., & Larson, K. (2019). Reversed urbanism: Inferring urban performance through behavioral patterns in temporal telecom data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 46(8), 1480–1498. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808319840668

BASIC: Blockchained Agent-based Simulator for Cities

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

MoCho: Mobility choices and societal impacts

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

What's your MoCho? Real-time Mode Choice Prediction Using Discrete Choice Models and a HCI Platform

Doorley, Ronan & Noyman, Ariel & Sakai, Yasushi & Larson, Kent. (2019). What's your MoCho? Real-time Mode Choice Prediction Using Discrete Choice Models and a HCI Platform. UrbComp SIGKDD 2019

City as Classroom, City as Laboratory

Often, we neglect to see the city as living, complex, and dynamic. However, shrouded by its masses of concrete and steel lie unique ecosy...

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Field Experimentation in Boston's Intertidal Zone

The Intertidal Experimentation Workshop will take place September 29 and 30 (9am to 2pm) at the MIT Media Lab, open to students ages 8-14...

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Home

How the home will be disrupted and transformed by radical technological change.

Measuring and reducing social segregation in cities

We use high-resolution geospatial data collected from mobile phones to measure social segregation at an unprecedented resolution in citie...

CityScope PlayGround: MIT East Campus

This project depicts the design, deployment and operation of a Tangible Regulation Platform, a physical-technological apparatus made for ...

Finding Places: HCI Platform for Public Participation in Refugees’ Accommodation Process

Finding Places: HCI Platform for Public Participation in Refugees’ Accommodation Process. Ariel Noyman , Tobias Holtz, Johannes Kröger, Jörg Rainer Noennig, Kent Larson. a Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab, Changing Places Group, Cambridge MA, b HafenCity University Hamburg, CityScienceLab, c HafenCity University Hamburg, Lab for Geoinformatics & Geovisualization

Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor

Frank, Morgan R., David Autor, James E. Bessen, Erik Brynjolfsson, Manuel Cebrian, David J. Deming, Maryann Feldman, et al. “Toward Understanding the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Labor.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 25, 2019, 201900949. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900949116.