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City Science Andorra

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

in City Science
Kent Larson · Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor +8 more
#design #architecture #data +12 more
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OpenAg EDU

Today's students have grown up in a world of rapidly evolving technology, and they are natural-born experimenters, programmers, and tinke...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Caleb Harper · Hildreth England +3 more
#environment #learning
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Ocean Cultures

Māori have a long and deep connection to their island and ocean ecosystem. The Māori concept of Rahui focuses on traditional methods...

in Open Ocean
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#developing countries #environment #genetics +2 more
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Big Ocean, Big Data

More ocean data has been collected in the last two years than in all previous years combined, and we are on a path to continue to break t...

in Open Ocean
Katy Croff Bell · Neil Gaikwad
#data #environment #machine learning +3 more
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Ecology, Evolution, and Engineering for Empowered Brains

EEEeb Spring 2019:  Urban OceansMarch 24, April 7 and 21, May 19, June 2 To register, please visit this lin...

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar +2 more
#ecology #environment #kids +2 more
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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...

in City Science
Guadalupe Babio Fernandez · Ariel Noyman +6 more
#design #computer vision #human-computer interaction +20 more
Project Research

Elowan: A plant-robot hybrid

Elowan is a cybernetic lifeform, a plant in direct dialogue with a machine. Using its own internal electrical signals, the plant is inter...

in Fluid Interfaces
Harpreet Sareen · Pattie Maes
#robotics #design #art +6 more
Project Research

Personal Food Computer

The OpenAg™ Personal Food Computer is a tabletop-sized, controlled environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems ...

in Open Agriculture (OpenAg)
Caleb Harper · Babak Babakinejad +7 more
#robotics #design #agriculture +10 more
Project Research

Andorra | Energy + Environment

View the main City Science Andorra project profile.

in City Science
Arnaud Grignard · Juanita Devis +3 more
#architecture #energy #environment +6 more
Project Research

Micronauts

Microbes are the foundation upon which life on Earth depends: they set the boundaries of habitability for all plants and animals and crea...

in Open Ocean
Devora Najjar · Caroline Rozendo
#art #augmented reality #environment +3 more
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Identifying the Human Impacts of Climate Change

Climate change is going to alter the environments that we depend on in myriad ways. We're using data to identify and quantify these poten...

in Scalable Cooperation
Nick Obradovich · Manuel Cebrian +4 more
#environment #government #health +5 more
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Theme | Mobility On-Demand

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

in City Science · City Science Network
Abhishek Agarwal · Kent Larson +8 more
#artificial intelligence #civic technology #cryptocurrency +9 more
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Persuasive Electric Vehicle (PEV)

An Alternative Autonomous Revolution System design for emerging urban contexts and societal aspirationsThe Persuasive Electric Vehic...

in City Science · City Science Network
Abhishek Agarwal · Yi-Cheng Jiang +6 more
#civic technology #energy #environment +3 more
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LEGO Wayfinder

The LEGO Wayfinder project combines LEGO, robotics, and seawater into a playground of project-based learning and citizen science for budd...

in Open Ocean · ML Learning
Katy Croff Bell · Avery Normandin +2 more
#robotics #environment #kids +5 more
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Preventing Tick-Borne Disease by Permanently Immunizing Mice

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically in...

in Sculpting Evolution
Kevin Esvelt · Joanna Buchthal
#agriculture #bioengineering #crowdsourcing +5 more
Project Research

Synthetic Apiary

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

in Mediated Matter
Neri Oxman · Jorge Duro-Royo +2 more
#bioengineering #construction #environment +2 more
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Responsive Science

Responsive Science is a way of conducting research that invites openness and community involvement from the earliest stages of each proje...

in Sculpting Evolution
Avery Normandin · Devora Najjar
#communications #ecology #environment +4 more
Project Research

Mindful Photons: Context-Aware Lighting

Light enables our visual perception. It is the most common medium for displaying digital information. Light regulates our circadian rhyth...

in Responsive Environments
Joseph A. Paradiso · Nan Zhao +1 more
#architecture #cognition #environment +5 more
Project Research

Doppelmarsh: Cross-Reality Environmental Sensor Data Browser

Doppelmarsh is a cross-reality sensor data browser built for experimenting with presence and multimodal sensory experiences. Built on evo...

in Responsive Environments
Don Derek Haddad · Gershon Dublon +4 more
#environment #sensors
Project Research

Living Observatory: Sensor Networks for Documenting and Experiencing Ecology

Living Observatory is an initiative for documenting and interpreting ecological change that will allow people, individually and collectiv...

in Responsive Environments · Terrestrial Sensing
Glorianna Davenport · Joseph A. Paradiso +4 more
#virtual reality #augmented reality #ecology +4 more

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