21st century cities as platforms for development qualicidades seminar/ rio de janeiro / 2016 ricardo alvarez / senseable city lab / mit
[i] work here
Urban imagination and social innovation through design & science
1900 / .23 BN 2011 / 3.6 BN 2050 / 6.3 BN un world urbanization prospects 2012
Forms of traditional settlement
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Gridded
conceptual space
physical space
real space
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industrial
post-industrial
information
knowledge
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digital sensor an electronic or electrochemical sensor, where data conversion and data transmission are done digitally.
- microphone - camera x 2 - fingerprint - capacitive multi-touch panel - photometer - proximity - gps sensor - magnetometer - accelerometer - 3-axis gyroscope - barometer - wireless
- 2003
5,000,000,000 GB 48 HOURS Source: Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt (http://http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/04/schmidt-data/) Symbol from The Noun Project collection.
scale urban
data
particular context
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+ research engineer
+ designer
+ data scientist
‌high quality visualisations
software developer
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MSE of inter frames thermal values variations
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ricardo alvarez jraf@mit.edu