Kent Larson
Principal Research Scientist, Directs the Media Lab's Changing Places group. at MIT Professional Education
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- Sloan School of Management
- MIT Professional Education
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MIT Professional Education
Kent Larson directs the City Science (formerly Changing Places) group at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on developing urban interventions that enable more entrepreneurial, livable, high-performance districts in cities. To that end, his projects include advanced simulation and augmented reality for urban design, transformable micro-housing for millennials, mobility-on-demand systems that create alternatives to private automobiles, and Urban Living Lab deployments in Hamburg, Andorra, Taipei, and Boston.
Larson and researchers from his group received the “10-Year Impact Award” from UbiComp 2014. This is a “test of time” award for work that, with the benefit of hindsight, has had the greatest impact over the previous decade.
Larson practiced architecture for 15 years in New York City, with design work published in Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, Global Architecture, The New York Times, A+U, and Architectural Digest. The New York Times Review of Books selected his book, Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks(2000) as one of that year’s ten best books in architecture.
Videos
Kent Larson on Resilient Communities and Sustainability - 'On Cities' Masterclass Series
Responsive Cities: Kent Larson at TEDxBoston
Kent larson Prof MIT on Smartcity innovation in europe #aegonlezing
Kent Larson: Changing Places Lab at MIT
Interview: Kent Larson, Principal Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab
Cities WITHOUT—Final thoughts from Kent Larson and Gesa Ziemer
Kent Larson: Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city
Solve at MIT: Kent Larson on "How can we design stronger, smarter cities globally?"
Kent Larson: Understanding Design
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