Gabriela Bilá is a Brazilian architect, artist, and researcher at the MIT Media Lab's City Science Center, where she explores how immersive media and speculative storytelling can help imagine more locally grounded urban futures. Working at the intersection of art, technology, and urbanism, her practice combines XR, film, and participatory workshops to co-create future narratives with communities across diverse geographies. 

Through teaching and collaborative research, her work positions fiction as a method to engage collective imagination and shape alternative climate futures aligned with lived realities.

Her work has been featured at various venues, including the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Venice Biennale, SXSW, Boston Museum of Science, EXPO, COP, Cooper Hewitt NYC, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Itaú Cultural, Museu Nacional da República, SESCs São Paulo and Instituto Tomie Ohtake.

For talks, workshops, projects, or just to say hi: gba[at]mit.edu