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A week that infused new strength into a unique collaboration

Published Oct 27, 2021

Through collaboration between KTH Royal Institute of Technology, MIT and the City of Stockholm – supported by Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and Newsec, and hosted by Kista Science City and the Stockholm Room – the week starting with 4 October 2021 became Senseable Stockholm Lab Week.

After two years of working together remotely, researchers from both universities finally got to meet and work together with City representatives, on location in Stockholm, the object of the joint research. They got to experience different facets of the city and had the opportunity to share the results of their research and visions for recently started projects with the city, the Stockholm business community as well as residents in Stockholm.

Highlights from the week included

  • Monday: A visit to KTH Campus, including the signing of the agreement to continue financing the lab until 2024, by KTH’s president Sigbritt Karlsson, Anna König Jerlmyr, the mayor of Stockholm and Andreas Hatzigeorgiou, CEO of Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. There was also a “fika” with cinnamon buns*.
Anna König Jerlmyr, Sigrbritt Karlsson och Andreas Hatzigeorgiou skriver under ett avtal
Anna König Jerlmyr, the mayor of Stockholm, Sigbritt Karlsson, president of KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Andreas Hatzigeorgiou, CEO of Stockholm Chamber of Commerce signed the agreement to continue funding Senseable Stockholm Lab until 2024. Photo: Fredrik Persson
The Senseable Stockholm Lab Steering Group, together with Anna König Jerlmyr, the mayor of Stockholm
Anna König Jerlmyr, the mayor of Stockholm, Andreas Hatzigeorgiou, CEO of Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Sigbritt Karlsson, president of KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Carlo Ratti, director MIT Senseable City Lab, Mikael Östling, deputy president, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Anna Scheibe Lorentzi, city planning director in Stockholm. Photo: Fredrik Persson
  • Tuesday: Presentations of the lab projects by the researchers and the city’s experts, broadcast live from the City Hall on Tuesday (soon available on the lab website). This was followed by study visits to  in Stockholm House of Culture as well as  – with transportation in  pod taxis, some of them equipped with  that continuously collect environmental research data.
Senseable Stockholm Lab researchers and city representatives
Panel debate with city of Stockholm representatives and researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and MIT. Photo: Susanne Kronholm
  • Wednesday: Workshop with invited representatives of the Kista business community during Kista Data Day, arranged in collaboration with .
Large painting on paper hanging on a wall
Kista Data Day being documented during the workshop. Photo: Kista Science City
  • Thursday: Meetings with other KTH research groups and initiatives, the first step towards future research collaborations.

Throughout the week, Stockholm residents and visitors also had the opportunity to experience the lab’s research presented on screens in the Stockholm room.

The lab week was a highly anticipated event, that had been long postponed due to the pandemic. The opportunity to meet, get together and discuss the research in person set a great foundation for the coming years’ work of taking on the City of Stockholm’s challenges with cutting edge-research and innovative thinking.

*4 October is the day of the cinnamon bun in Sweden

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