Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Within the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism, developed an ongoing-research on successful community-led affordable housing case studies in Latin America. The purpose of this research orbited around establishing a driving affordable case study research model to analyze and serve as a platform for the development of future Affordable Housing Projects worldwide.
Kawsay is a platform that connects sustainable infrastructure services to the people who have been most neglected by municipal services. Through real time data collection and high level analysis, Kawsay reveals the untapped potential market that alternative infrastructure can reach in informal communities. Kawsay provides an online platform allowing our partner utilities, NGO’s and Social Enterprises to tap into a wide set of collected statistics as well as analytical research supporting future company growth. This system gives alternative infrastructure providers the necessary user data, facts and quantitative and qualitative data to create greater social impact through a lucrative, reduced risk environment. By providing exposure to new markets, Kawsay brings together a network of partner organisations working collectively in previously under-represented communities.
Commons is a technology platform that enables individuals to make more sustainable energy consumption choices through highly-granular, real-time, smartphone-based carbon emissions tracking. Similar to how Fitbit brought personal data tracking to the health and fitness space, Joro helps users monitor and optimize energy consumption, increase energy efficiency, reduce emissions, and save money.
The MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism is committed to fostering a rigorous design culture for the large scale; by focusing disciplinary conversations about architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, and systems thinking, not about the problems of yesterday, but of tomorrow. We are motivated by the radical changes in our environment, and the role that design and research can play in addressing these. We embrace conversations with the world's top experts at MIT, to feed and foster innovation. We take pride in the fact that participants in the Center do not just talk about things; they create projects, build things, and actively change our society out in the real world; and then come together to learn from each other's experiences, publish, and debate about future directions. The MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism has been established at the initiative of the Dean and department Chairs of the School of Architecture and Planning and reflects a renewed drive to excellence in urbanism.