Where: Bldg. 20 Auditorium
Description
Today, the cities are talking to us and the way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and the impact on their physical structure. In this lecture, MIT's Carlo Ratti will show how the increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment.
Prof. Carlo Ratti will address these issues from a critical point of view through projects by the Senseable City Laboratory, a research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the International design and innovation practice Carlo Ratti Associati.
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Carlo Ratti
An architect and engineer by training, Professor Carlo Ratti teaches at MIT, where he directs the Senseable City Laboratory, and is a founding partner of the international design and innovation practice Carlo Ratti Associati. A leading voice in the debate on new technologies’ impact on urban life, his work has been exhibited in several venues worldwide, including the Venice Biennale, New York’s MoMA, London’s Science Museum, and Barcelona’s Design Museum. Two of his projects – the Digital Water Pavilion and the Copenhagen Wheel – were hailed by Time Magazine as ‘Best Inventions of the Year’. He has been included in Wired Magazine’s ‘Smart List: 50 people who will change the world’. He is currently serving as co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization, and as special advisor on Urban Innovation to the European Commission.
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