Interviews 3D Software to Boost Low-Cost Housing Options: Encoding Architecture with Larry Sass Larry Sass is an architectural designer and researcher exploring digital design and fabrication across scales. Sass offers a compelling case for 3D modelling software as a challenge to current industry standards to democratize housing construction as a process.
Interviews Technology and Nature: Protecting Biodiversity for Public Good with Aditi Jha Aditi Jha is a 2023 Sloan Fellows MBA at MIT Sloan. She has worked with the World Bank, the UN and large conglomerates on integrating sustainability (ESG) across high environmental impact sectors like transport, energy, and agriculture.
Defining Public Interest Technology: A Conversation with ChatGPT In the past year, ChatGPT has become the focus of intense discussion. Its inventors and advocates should consider carefully both the ways that tools like ChatGPT can be used and the guardrails that need to be constructed so that artificial intelligence (AI) is not used unfairly or inappropriately.
Digitalization and the City: Connectivity as a Tool for Identifying Systemic Gaps with Surbhi Agarwal Surbhi Agrawal is an architect, urban designer and Master in City Planning candidate in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) at MIT. She is also a part of the Senseable City Lab. Agrawal’s work lies at the intersection of urban planning and digital technologies in cities.
Transit Optimization: Technology Shaping the Future of Work and Mobility with Jim Aloisi and Jinhua Zhao Fundamental changes to how we work and commute have forced public transit agencies to contend with a new normal after the Covid-19 pandemic. Jim Aloisi and Jinhua Zhao of MIT's Transit Lab propose a way forward.
Interviews Evaluating Public Participation in Energy Policy with Anushree Chaudhuri Anushree Chaudhuri is a third-year undergraduate and soon-to-be master's in city planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP). She also holds a second bachelor's degree in economics from MIT.