How MIT Builds Cities Using Lego and Augmented Reality

The MIT Media Lab is using innovation to boil efficient teamwork down to a science. With an enhanced ability to communicate across teams, MIT is creating a workplace that shares ideas in unprecedented ways. The Changing Places group at MIT tackles large challenges like fighting pollution and urban modeling; the latter of which is being solved by using a combination of lego bricks and augmented reality.

Professor Alex Sandy Pentland, director of the MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics labs, co-author of Social Contract for the AI Age, and member of AIWS City’s Board of Leaders, introduce these concepts in this video: