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Real Time Rome
Real Time Rome is a 2006 exhibit by the MIT Senseable City Lab, directed by professor Richard Burdett. The project used anonymized cell-phone data from sponsor Telecom Italia's Lochness platform about telecom traffic and signal strength, as well as GPS data from buses and taxis, to analyze and visualize the movement of people through Rome in real time. Prior to Real Time Rome's debut, MIT had produced a similar project in Graz, Austria. City Lab director Carlo Ratti said at the time that the City Lab planned to expand to cities including Florence and Zaragoza. The project debuted on September 8, 2006, at the Venice Biennale, an exhibition of fine arts and urban studies technology projects. During the demo, MIT projected several animations on Plexiglass screens, with data collected about five minutes before being shown. Brighter colors on the projections indicated areas of higher traffic, and visualizations of traffic spikes in the city. These included surges in cell-phone u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MIT Senseable City Lab
The MIT Senseable City Laboratory is a digital laboratory within MIT's City Design and Development group, within the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, which works in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab. The lab aims to investigate and anticipate how digital technologies are changing the way people live and their implications at the urban scale. History and description Director Carlo Ratti founded the Senseable City Lab in 2004. Its mission statement A mission statement is a short statement of why an organization exists, what its overall goal is, the goal of its operations: what kind of product or service it provides, its primary customers or market, and its geographical region of operation ... says that it seeks to creatively intervene and investigate the interface between people, technologies and the city. The Lab's work draws on diverse fields such as urban planning, architecture, design, engineering, computer science, natural science and economics to capture the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
