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New project to investigate people´s safety perceptions

A new research project in the Senseable Stockholm Lab will look at perceptions of safety in Kista. The researchers will include youth organizations, hoping the results can lead to concrete measures.

“The hope is that we will get a better understanding of which places in Kista that are perceived as safe and which places are not”, say Vania Ceccato, professor of urban studies at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Fabio Duarte, principal researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Read the full article here.

Learn more and watch the panel discussion City of Stockholm – Senseable Stockholm Lab: Unpacking perceived safety in urban environments with Vania Ceccato and Fabio Duarte at Digitalize in Stockholm 2022.

 

Watch the seminar Unveiling urban phenomena through digital traces with Fábio Duarte, MIT:

 

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