Carlo Ratti

Background

Architect and engineer by training, Professor Carlo Ratti teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he heads the Senseable City Laboratory, and is also one of the founders of the Carlo Ratti Associati Bureau of International Design and Innovation. He graduated from the Polytechnic University of Turin and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and later received a master's degree and a PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK). He is actively involved in the debate about the impact of new technologies on urban life and design, and has co-authored more than 500 publications, including The City of the Future (Yale University Press, with Matthew Claudel), and holds several technical patents. His articles and interviews have been published in international media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The WashingtonPost, 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 in Barcelona, the Science Museum in London, MAXXI in Rome and MoMA in New York. Carlo was included in Esquire Magazine's Best & Brightest list and Thames & Hudson's list of "60 Innovators" Shaping Our Creative Future.

He is currently the Co-Chairman of the Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization at the World Economic Forum.