Institute for Latent Publics
Cities are built on the many who are never asked.
The Institute for Latent Publics studies how those publics can be made legible — and how far the answers can be trusted.
What we study
01
Revealing latent publics from data.
How the activity and opinion of those who do not appear in hearings, surveys, or administrative records can be brought into how cities get planned.
02
The methodological integrity of synthetic populations.
How far a simulated response can be trusted, and where it begins to lie. This question takes up more of the work than the simulation itself.
03
Rehearsals of coexistence.
What a rehearsal of living together is worth inside a design process, now that it can be run at all.
Urban Currents
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