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The Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism is hiring an External Engagement Manager! Join our team and contribute to our various projects and initiatives being developed at the Center. Link to full description and application here: lcau.mit.edu/positions #mit #hiring

The paper argues that successful integration of Gen AI for civic engagement must be powered by people who use their judgment to validate outputs, mitigate potential errors, contextualize results, and build trust between the government and the community.

NEW PAPER available here: mit-genai.pubpub.org/pub/6uejzuox/r… The LCAU brought together an interdisciplinary team on a recent paper on using Gen AI for civic engagement.

Join us and check out the website here: cdmx.mit.edu

After our three-year collaboration with LabCiudades, @motaengilmexico, and the @gobiernoCDMX_ , we are happy to share our new website that showcases work from faculty, students, and staff from @mitarchitecture, @mitsap, @mitdusp, @mitdesignx , and the LCAU.

That is a wrap on Unboxed City! Thank you to everyone who contributed to the project and saw the exhibit in person. Visit unboxedcity.mit.edu to view the full video from inside the exhibit. See you soon for further announcements and news! #ai #genai #urbanism #unboxedcity

Application link: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/clie…

The Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism is hiring a Lecturer-Researcher! Join our team and take advantage of this exciting opportunity to lecture graduate level courses and conduct research under the LCAU starting this Fall semester. #mit #urbanism #hiring

Come celebrate with us by coming to the closing event for Unboxed City: critical explorations of ai and cities on May 3rd at 5:00 pm in the East Lobby of the MIT Media Lab. Libations will be provided. Hope to see you there! #ai #urbanism #mit #unboxedcity

This time-lapse represents the physical construction process of the 16'x16' cube of Unboxed City, made of wood, in the exterior, and panels of black acrylic, in the interior. Join us in the East Lobby of the Media Lab any day until May 3rd to experience being inside the black box

We are excited to announce that the closing event for Unboxed City: critical explorations of ai and cities will be held on May 3rd at 5:00 pm in the East Lobby of the MIT Media Lab. Please save the date and come join us in celebration and conversation. #ai #urbanism #unboxedcity

Join @BetaNYC & @NYCOfficeofTech’s @NYCAnalytics for NYC School of Data, #NYC's #civictech conference, with sessions unpacking #opendata #servicedesign #PublicInterestTech. We'll have panels, workshops, classes & more! Sat, 3/23, at @CUNYLaw📆 bit.ly/sodata24-ticke… 🎟️

Can generative #AI help planners envision & implement strategies to support & revive the North American Main Street? Over @mit's 2024 IAP, Fadi Haddad led three workshops leveraging ChatGTP's DALL-E to explore this question. More: bit.ly/haddadMainStre…

In THREE DAYS we kick off the opening of our new exhibition - Unboxed City: critical explorations of ai and cities - with a PARTY! See you at 5pm on March 8th for our celebration reception, including a panel discussion at 5:30pm. For more info, visit unboxedcity.mit.edu

THIS FRIDAY we kick off the opening of our new exhibition - Unboxed City: critical explorations of ai and cities - with a PARTY! See you at 5pm on March 8th for our celebration reception, including a panel discussion at 5:30pm. For more information, visit unboxedcity.mit.edu

We want to congratulate our Spatial Equity team, including @datasew, @shumwayhannah, Adi Kupershimdt, Linh Nguyen, Enrique Casillas, and Sebastian Ives. Explore the tool yourself here to see the impacts of car-centric planning throughout New York City: spatialequity.nyc

We are excited to announce the release of the second version of the Spatial Equity NYC tool, developed in collaboration with Transportation Alternatives, that helps visualize the impacts on various aspects of urban living including mobility, public health, and the environment.

Come to the opening of our exhibition - unboxed city: critical explorations of [ai] and cities - March 8th at 5pm in the East Lobby of the MIT Media Lab and be sure to visit our exhibit from March 8th to May 7th. #ai #urbanism #cities #unboxedcity #generativeai

@kanarinka See the full video, as well as the rest of our recap at: regenerate.mit.edu/gallery-1 #ai #urbanplanning #regenerate #climatechange #mit

Sara Beery was joined by Theodora Dryer, and Tawanna Dillahunt, with Catherine D’Ignazio, @kanarinka, as moderator. Beery had this to say about the divide between practitioners and the public when it comes to who should be using data to envision a just climate future.