For decades science fiction—from The Jetsons to Blade Runner -- projected the intelligent building, the smart home, the responsive house. Today these visions are on the verge of reality. With technologies in play and more on the way—sensors, microprocessors, wireless networking, flat displays, now we ask: Can we design our built environment, blending physical and virtual worlds, to make life better?

The Home 2020 Studio X will propose a vision for digital life in the near future. We’ll create a prototype to illustrate this vision. We’ll operate as a design/build studio: our full-scale building will demonstrate the ideas we develop.