We are defined by the people we bring together

The Responsive Cities Institute began as a partnership between OSPA and the Escola Livre de Arquitetura (ELA). The two came together to create the Responsive Cities MBA. Its success led to an institute focused on innovation in urbanism and architecture.

Today the Institute is a hub for education, research and consulting. It combines architecture and urbanism with the market and technology to act with purpose in cities.

In this view, urban planning and urban economics go together, and so do reflection and action. Data science is the foundation, but the purpose goes beyond the numbers: to understand what the data means in people's lives and to change it, so that cities become more humane and more responsive.