TUESDAY Nov-9 @ 3pm EST:

SIMONE MORA /
Future Sustainable Cities_

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The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed, as are the tools we use to design them. The mission of the Senseable City Laboratory, a research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is to anticipate these changes and study them from a critical point of view. Not bound by the methodologies of a single field, the Lab is characterized by an omni-disciplinary, highly-collaborative approach: it speaks the language of designers, planners, engineers, physicists, biologists and social scientists. Through design and science, the Lab develops and deploys tools to learn about cities—so that cities can learn about us. This talk will present a portfolio of projects developed by the Lab over the last ten years, showing how blending the physical and digital worlds can open for new possibilities for the design of future sustainable cities.

Simone Mora is a Research Scientist at MIT Senseable City Lab.  His research focuses on methods for design and prototyping of Internet of Things ecologies and their application for future sustainable cities. He is  leading SCL’s City Scanner project, a platform for mobile, low-cost sensing. Dr. Mora holds a PhD in computer science from NTNU (Norway). He has contributed to more than forty scientific papers, has been a visiting scholar at City London University, and co-founded a startup company that develops educational toolkits.