Senseable on Senseable

An ethnographic study of the organizational culture and transdisciplinary nature of MIT's SENSEable City Lab

MIT's SENSEable City Lab is a transdisciplinary research group that studies the interface between cities, people and technologies and investigates how the ubiquity of digital devices and the telecommunications networks that augment our cities are impacting urban living. With an overall goal of anticipating future trends, the lab brings researchers from different academic disciplines and forms partnerships with cities, the private sector and other universities to work on groundbreaking ideas and innovative real-world demonstrations. Since it's inception in 2004, outcomes from the lab include: 200+ scientific papers published, 35+ real-world projects, 25+ exhibitions, 100+ conference keynote addresses, 5 numerous awards and representation in the global media.


The SENSEable on SENSEable project, led by the cultural anthropologist Luca Simeone, is an ethnographic study of SENSEable City Lab's organizational culture that traces the lab's radical transdisciplinary approach over a period of four months - February to May 2011. Through the summary information below and the video and pecha kucha links on this page, you will be able to uncover the key components and practices that foster such a mode of working and understand a little about what makes this unique research lab tick - enjoy!

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Science & Technology

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• Senseable city lab
• MIT
• transdisciplinary
• ehtnographic
• anthropology
• Luca Simone
• Carlo Ratti
• research university
• city
• group
• education
• multidisciplinary
• students
• researchers
• scientists
• designers
• computer
• technology
• future