Open Locast: How MIT’s evolving media platform is being used to improve connections between people and their social, cultural, and physical spaces

Open Locast Universities is a partnership between the MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory and a talented, international pool of universities, the aim of which is to explore new ways of utilizing Open Locast, an interactive media platform developed by the MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory, in the urban environment. The goal is to not only to encourage civic engagement, but also to generate new forms of storytelling and civic media. Each university team developed its own independent project using the Open Locast platform.