Urban Innovation
Projects
EcoPod is a temporary pop-up lab experience designed to engage communities with local environmental data and expertise for climate resilience.
With Project Eclipse, the Urban Innovation Initiative presents a full stack -from sensors to analytics- air quality sensing platform for cities. The goal is a radical increase (10x – 100x) in the geographic granularity of environmental sensing in cities in…
Using search query data from Bing, we estimate demand for employment across a variety of employment sectors and at county geographic scale in the U.S. We then show how demand for different types of work aligns with various population demographics.…
EarthTones is a cosmetic-inspired wearable chemical sensing powders designed to detect the exposure levels of harmful environmental factors through color change.
Established:
We believe that the future of food will be supported by the infrastructure of the information age paired with new agricultural movements like aquaponics and urban farming. A world of connected devices, made intelligent and efficient through computational algorithms and…
Project Florence is an artistic representation of a Plant-Human Interface Experience that is built on top of a scientific analysis of the plant and its environment. Paired with the ability to receive human input, the plant can return a response,…