MIT Design Laboratory
MIT Mobile Experience lab
multidisciplianry workshops spring 2007
METRO 2.0
SMART CROWD IN PARIS
Working in close collaboration with the French public transportation
authority (RATP), we want to creatively re-imagine the Metro as
an information and communication ecosystem.
We will consider three aspects
1. Smart mobs.
Metro and RER transport about 10 millions passengers per day; this
crowd is now wirelessly connected and informed in real time.
What are the emerging activities and passengers' behaviors?
2. Economic Models
Which are the new economical models that characterize the activities
of passengers? Can we imagine services and forms of exchange
that take into account the increased ad-hoc connectivity?
3. Territory
How are the flow of people traveling in the metro connected with the
urban territory and with the local business?
The goal of Metro 2.0 is to creatively rethink the travelers’ crowd
as smart mob, connected with the urban environmentas well as imagining
emerging economical models that new information and communication
technologies allow.
Students will work in multidisciplinary teams and will create scenarios to
rethink the Parisian Metro. Participants in the seminar will visit Paris
at the beginning of the course in order to explore the public transportation
system, the city and its inhabitants.
The course is taught within Design without Boundaries MAS.967
In collaboration with RATP, Paris and the kind support of MIT FRANCE.
First meeting: Tuesday February 6, MIT Design Laboratory, E48-319, 4-5:30pm
Instructors: William J. Mitchell, Federico Casalegno
Tue 4-5.30pm, Design Laboratory, E48-319
12 credits, Prereq: permission of the instructor
MIT mobile experience lab
Director Federico Casalegno
238 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, USA
MIT Building E48-319
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