Multimedia
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Design-Build: Learning by Doing
Slideshow
On July 27, Lab visitors took part in a compact building experiment that asked them, collectively, to envision, plan, and build a temporary outdoor structure within just four days. From the initial design...
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Dynamic Public Spaces
Slideshow
On July 27, The MIT SENSEable City Lab led Berlin Lab participants out into the street to examine how people interact in public space. Every hour, participants undertook “missions” to affect the activity...
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Field Trips: Clubs
Slideshow
Field Trips was a weekly itinerant lecture series on wheels that invited participants to take trips to various areas of Berlin to collectively explore and physically engage the city while sharing knowledge....
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Open-Source Architecture
Slideshow
What if the principles of open-source design were applied to architecture and urbanism? If everyone could be a designer, how would design adapt? Joseph Grima, editor in chief of Domus, joined Lab Team...
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Dissected Trash Objects
Slideshow
On July 19, the Lab invited participants to question how well they know their trash. Most people may think they know what their trash looks like, but, really, most of it is hidden. To see what possibilities...
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Carlo Ratti: Sanitary Cities and the SENSEable City
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This video presents highlights from a talk by Lab Team member Carlo Ratti, director of MIT's SENSEable City Lab. Carlo discusses the fact that now, for the first time in history, the structures people...
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Sidsel Birk Hjuler: The World’s Most Bike-Friendly Cities
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This video presents Sidsel Birk Hjuler's talk, "The World's Most Bike-Friendly Cities," in which Hjuler discusses her project, the Copenhagenize Index. Copenhagen was used as an index in this project because,...
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José Gómez-Márquez
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This video presents Berlin Lab Team member José Gómez-Márquez's vision of the Lab's purpose: "To look at the process of finding the answers to questions about the future of cities." As he sees it, the...