Rafi Segal is an architect and Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at MIT. His practice involves design and research on the architectural, urban, and regional scale, currently focused on how emerging notions of collectivity can impact the design of buildings and cities. Segal directs Future Urban Collectives, a new design-research lab at MIT that explores the relation between digital platforms and physical communities asking how architecture and urbanism can support and scale cohabitation, coproduction, and coexistence. He holds a PhD from Princeton University and a M.Sc and B.Arch from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.