As municipalities around the world try to grasp the practical opportunities and policy impacts of driverless cars, our project will be positioned to provide human-centered social scenarios, technical solutions, and infrastructural prototypes. In short, our team aims to reinvent transportation infrastructure as human infrastructure for the 21st century.

Marshall Brown is a licensed architect, principal of Marshall Brown Projects, and an Associate Professor at the IIT College of Architecture. Brown is a Graham Foundation grantee, and recently exhibited at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. He has also exhibited at the Arts Club of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and Western Exhibitions. In 2016 he appeared in the PBS documentary “Ten Towns that Changed America.” His projects and essays have appeared in several books and journals, including Metropolis, Crain’s, Architectural Record, The New York Daily News, Art Papers, and The Believer.


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