Sanwo-Olu unveils Senseable Lagos Lab in Isimi Tech Valley

15 May 2023

The program, sponsored by Nigeria's premier residential real estate business, LandWey Investment Ltd., was introduced during the first Lagos Future City Week organized by LandWey.
Governor Sanwo-Olu, who was represented at the occasion by Solape Hammond, praised Landwey Investment for recruiting the cooperation. The opening of the Senseable Lagos Lab follows our climate adaptation and sustainable resilience strategy for Lagos. Waste management, flood risk management, green construction, and other programs will help us handle this. This alliance will help us solve some, if not all, of these difficulties.

Carlo Ratti, co-founder, and director of MIT Senseable City Labs addressed the audience on the research initiative's goal and worldwide solutions.

"This is our first relationship in Africa, so we're excited." Sustainable city building has helped us appreciate each city's uniqueness. We utilize data to solve each company's unique problems. We're enthusiastic to use data to solve Lagos' environmental problems, Ratti said.

Hammond remarked, “I wholeheartedly commend Landwey Investment for attracting this partnership. The Senseable Lagos Lab launch is a very exciting project for us as it follows our climate adaptation and sustainable resilience plan for Lagos. We have identified many projects which will help us address this including; waste management, flood risk, green building, and some other challenges. Thus, it is exciting to see the fruition of this partnership as it would help us address some if not all of these challenges.”


The Senseable Lagos Lab will bring together scholars from several academic fields to collaborate on creative real-world demonstrations in Lagos State. MIT Senseable City Lab's work has been presented at the Venice Biennale, the Design Museum in Barcelona, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and MoMA in New York. The Digital Water Pavilion won TIME's Best Invention of the Year in 2007 and 2014. (Copenhagen Wheel).
Isimi Tech Valley and MIT Senseable City Lab intend to give data-led long-term solutions to the ever-growing megacity, which will promote investment.

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