An architect and engineer by training, Professor Carlo Ratti teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he directs the Senseable City Lab, and is a founding partner of the international design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati. He graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and the \u00c9cole Nationale des Ponts et Chauss\u00e9es in Paris, and later earned his MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A leading voice in the debate on new technologies\u2019 impact on urban life and design, Carlo has co-authored over 500 publications, including \u201cThe City of Tomorrow\u201d (Yale University Press, with Matthew Claudel), and holds several technical patents. His articles and interviews have appeared on international media including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Scientific American, BBC, Project Syndicate, Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 Ore, Domus. His work has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the Venice Biennale, the Design Museum Barcelona, the Science Museum in London, MAXXI in Rome, and MoMA in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carlo has been featured in Esquire Magazine\u2019s \u2018Best & Brightest\u2019 list and in Thames & Hudson\u2019s selection of \u201860 innovators\u2019 shaping our creative future. Blueprint Magazine included him as one of the \u201825 People Who Will Change the World of Design\u2019, Forbes listed him as one of the \u2018Names You Need To Know\u2019 and Fast Company named him as one of the \u201950 Most Influen-tial Designers in America\u2019. He was also featured in Wired Magazine\u2019s
\u2018Smart List: 50 people who will change the world\u2019. Three of his projects \u2013 the Digital Water Pavilion, the Copenhagen Wheel and Scribit \u2013 have been included by TIME Magazine in the list of the \u2018Best Inventions of the Year\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carlo has been a presenter at TED (in 2011 and 2015), program director at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow, curator of the BMW Guggenheim Pavilion in Berlin, and was named Inaugural Innovator in Residence by the Queensland Government. He was the curator of the Future Food District pavilion for the 2015 World Expo in Milan and chief curator of the “Eyes of the City” section at the 2019 UABB
Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism of Shenzhen. He is currently serving as cochair of the World Economic Forum\u2019s Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Professor of Urban Technologies, MIT and Planning Director, MIT Senseable City Lab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1306,"menu_order":25,"template":"","categories":[14],"speaker-type":[31],"yoast_head":"\n