Gonzalo Ortega

Gonzalo Ortega is an architect and urban planner (MArch ETSAM, MIT Master in City Planning) and research associate at the MIT Senseable City Lab. With international academic and work experience in Brazil, Italy and China, Gonzalo focuses on how to make urban design and planning happen through design optimization and communication, policy-making and economic factors. He believes that new technologies, combined with the resurgence of tradition and urban values are the key to a better, more participative and interconnected urban living.