City Science Summit Andorra
In September 2017 the City Science group launched the first City Science Summit, held in Andorra, where urban planners, industry leaders, and researchers came together to create a vibrant network of smart cities.
Main Stage Presentations - September 14 and 15, 2017
The first City Science Summit aimed to share the collective knowledge of the City Science Network to understand and plan changes to our communities and our future cities. The summit highlighted the global collaborations and goal to build tools to predict the impact of new urban systems to enable more entrepreneurial, livable, high-performing districts. These urban data observatories also aim to simulate the impact of urban design, energy networks, mobility systems and other urban interventions. The two day conference was hosted in the Andorra Innovation Center and featured PechaKucha style presentations from network researchers followed by round table discussions and presentations. In addition, the summit aimed to extend CityScope capabilities and to test the deployment of urban innovations in a local context.
Presentations were made by the following researchers, leaders, and government officials:
Keynote Speakers
Kent Larson, MIT Media Lab + Gilbert Saboya, Government of Andorra
CityScope: Modeling and Simulation
Ariel Noyman - CityScope - MIT Media Lab
Arnaud Grignard - Agent Based Modelling - MIT Media Lab
Jörg Noennig - HCU CityScience Lab - HCU
Ronan Doorley - Urban mobility modeling with mobile phone data - Trinity College/MIT Media Lab
Su Yun Sheng - CityScope Tongi - Tongji University
Disrupting Mobility
Michael Lin - Persuasive Electric Vehicle - MIT Media Lab
Wolfgang Gruel - Share use and Electric Vehicle - Daimler Mobility
Florian Lennert - User testing real work with EVs - London School of Economics
Christopher Borroni-Bird - Low cost E-cart: "Mobility Solutions for all the World" - Qualcomm
Community Engagement and Innovation
Luis Alonso - Data-Driven, evidence-based simulation of urban dynamics - MIT Media Lab
Nuria Macia - TerMITes, Kids, Learning - ActuaTECH
Ángel Pérez - Lima: “A city between the Pyrenees and the Andes” - Universidad del Pacifico
Antti Ahlava - Aalto campus innovation - Aalto University
Yann Baucis - Building innovation environment in Andorra - ActuaTECH
Housing, Wellness, Energy, Blockchain
Kent Larson - Micro Housing - MIT Media Lab
Albert Moles - Microgrids a new way to share energy - FEDA
Kau Li-Jen - An intelligent mattress system - National Taipei University of Technology
Marc Pons - Solar Energy - OBSA
John Clippinger - City commons - MIT Media Lab, Founder, Token, Harvard
The Andorra Innovation Hub
The Andorra Innovation Hub is part of the Actua Initiative whic brings together various ministries, government agencies, associations and private sector entities to improve the competitiveness, innovation and sustainability. The Innovation Hub explores technological innovations from mobility, to data modeling and aggregation to use of CityScope for urban design, understanding and planning.
City Science Lab @ Andorra
Andorra and the City Science research group at the MIT Media Lab are taking on the challenge of turning Andorra into an “Internationally Recognized Intelligent Country.” The Andorra Living Lab project combines different research topics (tourism, innovation, energy and environment, mobility, dynamic urban planning) for the future urban challenges of the country. We are collaborating on a unique initiative providing Andorrans with the research, knowledge, methods, and tools to carry out such transformation.
