The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


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Phithakkitnukoon, S. and Ratti, C. (2011). Inferring Asymmetry of Inhabitant Flow using Call Detail Records. Journal of Advances in Information Technology, 2(2). >> more

"NYC Waterfalls," New York Times, 8 June 2009


"Emotional Connections," (New York Talk Exchange featured in Newsweek) 10 March 2008 >> more

NEW! Seeking to fill two sponsored research positions involving data visualization. Eligible candidates should have relevant experience in the process of visualizing data both in static and dynamic form. >> more


The SENSEable City Laboratory is seeking exceptional candidates to fill several postdoctoral positions. The focus of the research will be on complex systems at the urban/regional scale. >> more


We also seek candidates from a variety of backgrounds for positions in the lab. Application materials should be sent to senseable-applicants@mit.edu. >> more

Researchers: Carlo Ratti (Director), Assaf Biderman (Associate Director), Anwar Al-Khateeb, Afian Anwar, Eric Baczuk, Cressica Brazier, Rex Britter, Riccardo Campari, Leigh Christie, Andrea Corti, Pedro Cruz, Jennifer Dunnam, Filippo dal Fiore, Kael Greco, Kristian Kloeckl, David Lee, Nic Marchesi, Nashid Nabian, Till Nagel, Otto Ng, Walter Nicolino, Dietmar Offenhuber, Prudence Robinson, Markus Schlapfer, Oliver Senn, Stanislav Sobolevsky, Anthony Vanky, Mark Yen


Past Researchers: Clio Andris, German W Aparicio Jr., Burak Arikan, Dima Ayyash, Seckin Basturk, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Daniel Berry, Francesco Calabrese, Xiaoji Chen, Carnaven Chiu, Enrico Costanza, Dominik Dahlem, Alyx Daly, Lorenzo Davoli, Talia Dorsey, Sarah Dunbar, Luigi Farrauto, Chris Fematt, Lucie Boyce Flather, Saba Ghole, Fabien Girardin, Daniel Gutierrez, Gabriel Grise, Cesar Harada, Guy Hoffman, Lindsey Hoshaw, Anyang Hou, Sonya Huang, Robert Johnson, E Roon Kang, Aaron Koblin, Jan Kokol, Gautier Krings, Sriram Krishnan, Eugene Lee, Xiongjiu Liao, Alyson Liss, Charles Liu, Liang Liu, Giusy Di Lorenzo, Jia Lou, David Lu, Diego Maniloff, Claudio Martani, Mauro Martino, Andrea Mattiello, Vincenzo Manzoni, Stephen Miles, Sey Min, Justin Moe, Mahsan Mohsenin, Eugenio Morello, Marina Neophytou, Giovanni de Niederhausern, Christine Outram, Paolo Patelli, James Patten, Francisco Camara Pereira, Santi Phithakkitnukoon, Francesco Pilla, Fabio Pinelli, Adam Pruden, Riccardo Pulselli, Pietro Pusceddu, François Proulx, Rahul Rajagopalan, Martin Ramos, Jon Reades, Bernd Resch, Stephane Roche, Francisca Rojas, Basant Sagar, Darshan Santani, Stefan Seer, Susannes Seitinger, Andres Sevtsuk, Aaron Siegel, Luca Simeone, Louis Sirota, Christian Somner, Najeeb Marc Tarazi, Musstanser Tinauli, Vlad Trifa, Andrea Vaccari, Kenny Verbeeck, Nathan Villagaray-Carski, Angela Wang, Yao Wang, Sarah Williams, Malima Wolf, Dustin York, Caitlin Zacharias, Shaocong Zhou


Advisory Board: Eran Ben-Joseph, Rex Britter, Gillian Crampton Smith, Joseph Ferreira, Dennis Frenchman, Hiroshi Ishii, Michael Joroff, Bruno Latour, Frank Levy, Antoine Picon, Adele Santos, Saskia Sassen, Lawrence Vale, Mirko Zardini


Administrative Assistant: Arthur Pesaturo