2024-05-08T22:00:52-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150127200/coworking-real-estate-empire-we-company-announces-smart-cities-initiative Mackenzie Goldberg 2019-03-19T17:17:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/58/5854b238193def1be47e1e427f1e4ba2.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>We Company, formerly known as <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/9113346/wework" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WeWork</a>, has announced plans to launch a smart cities program. Since its founding in 2010, the real-estate empire has collected an enormous amount of data on how people work and live, using that information&nbsp;to shape its more than 600 spaces. As the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150114155/wework-is-making-moves-should-other-co-working-spaces-be-worried" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">global coworking company expands</a> its brand to tackle residential real estate (WeLive) and education (<a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150093521/big-and-wework-complete-first-wegrow-elementary-school-in-nyc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WeGrow</a>), it is hoping to use its aggregated information to reenvision the future of our cities.</p> <p>To do so, We Company has hired Di-Ann Eisnor, the former <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/606382/waze" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Waze</a> executive, and <a href="https://archinect.com/dror" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dror Benshetrit</a>, the designer and futurist whose eponymous studio is known for their pioneering object and installation designs. Together, the two (alongside engineers, architects, data scientists, biologists, and economists) will use their innovation of the tech sector to address problems of urbanization and climate change.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a1/a12902d27a3cee83969b7b270c265587.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a1/a12902d27a3cee83969b7b270c265587.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>WeGrow NYC, We Company's first elementary school; designed by Bjarke Ingels Group. Photo by Dave Burk.</figcaption></figure><p>In recent years,...</p>