Center for Intelligent Environments (CENTIENTS) supports ground-breaking research and brings together the world’s foremost leaders, scholars, innovators, and intellectuals -from engineering to psychology to business to policy- to engage in dialogue and debate, to forward work on intelligent built environments, as well as to form partnerships that promote human-centered design and integration of intelligent technologies into built environments.

To address old and new challenges, CENTIENTS builds on the fourth industrial revolution’s advances, which incorporates automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and smart technologies into conventional industry practices, and the built environment overall. Incorporating these technologies, research trajectories, and innovation opportunities into a broader set of changes, including stronger partnership networks, greater agility and flexibility, and thoughtful futureproofing, CENTIENTS promises to unlock the industry’s full potential to deliver lasting value.

Mission

Center for Intelligent Environments (CENTIENTS) is a community of internationally recognized researchers and industry partners, who collaborate to explore and produce substantial, holistic, and far-sighted research on topics of the built environment.  With a mission to develop and promote sustainability, resilience, health and well-being, and fundamentally intelligent systems to shape a better world, CENTIENTS stands to be a geographic epicenter for solving some of the grand challenges faced in the design, engineering, construction, use and operation of the built environment. 

Our vision is to facilitate a broad, far-reaching research and conversation about how to design, introduce, and oversee user-centered solutions in ways that make environments not only more supportive of engineering and organizational goals but also safer, healthier, more humane, and capable of producing joy and well-being in the humans that use them.