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Kent Larson 是一位建筑师，麻省理工学院（MIT）实践教授、媒体实验室城市科学小组主任，以及位于马德里的 Norman Foster 可持续城市研究所联合主任。他的研究领域涵盖城市与建筑设计、城市建模与仿真、可变形微型住宅、生活实验室、超轻型自动驾驶交通工具以及算法动态分区。Larson 于2017年和2019年两度荣获 Ubicomp 颁发的“十年影响力奖”，以表彰其经受住时间考验、产生深远影响的研究成果。
Larson 及其团队建立了“城市科学网络”，下设十个城市科学实验室，分别位于上海、台北、多伦多、汉堡、瓜达拉哈拉、安道尔、圣塞巴斯蒂安（西班牙）、康塞普西翁（智利）和贝尔谢巴（以色列）。城市科学小组的成果近期曾在毕尔巴鄂古根海姆博物馆、威尼斯建筑双年展、纽约史密森尼库珀-休伊特设计博物馆以及波士顿科学博物馆展出。他已受邀发表主题演讲逾100场，其TED演讲观看量达130万次。
Kent Larson is an architect, MIT Professor of the Practice, director of City Science at the MIT Media Lab, and co-director of the Norman Foster Institute on Sustainable Cities based in Madrid. His research is focused on urban and architectural design, urban modeling and simulation, transformable micro-housing, living laboratories, ultralight autonomous mobility, and algorithmic dynamic zoning. Larson received 10-Year Impact Awards from Ubicomp in 2017 and 2019 for recognition of work that, with the test of time, has had the greatest impact.
Larson and his team have established the City Science Network of ten affiliated City Science Labs in Shanghai, Taipei, Toronto, Hamburg, Guadalajara, Andorra, San Sebastian (Spain), Concepcion (Chile), and Beersheba (Israel). The City Science Group's work has recently been presented at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, and the Museum of Science in Boston. He has given over 100 invited keynote talks and delivered a TED talk with 1.3 million views.
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