CARLO RATTI – MIT SENSEABLE CITY LAB/CARLORATTIASSOCIATI

CARLO RATTI – MIT SENSEABLE CITY LAB/CARLORATTIASSOCIATI
Architetto, Ingegnere e Agit-Prop, Carlo Ratti è titolare dello studio carlorattiassociati | walter
nicolino & carlo ratti di Torino e direttore del MIT SENSEable City Lab di Boston. Laureato presso il
Politecnico di Torino e l’École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées a Parigi, consegue un PhD presso
l’Università di Cambridge, UK.
Carlo detiene numerosi brevetti ed ha partecipato ad oltre 250 diverse pubblicazioni. Oltre ad
essere un regolare collaboratore di riviste specializzate in Architettura quali Domus o il quotidiano
Il Sole 24 Ore, Carlo ha scritto per la BBC, La Stampa, Scientific Amerian e The New York Times. Il
suo lavoro è stato esposto alla Biennale di Venezia, al Design Museum di Barcellona, al Science
Museum di Londra, al GAFTA di San Francisco ed al Museum of Modern Art di New York.
Carlo è stato incluso nella lista “2008 Best & Brightest” di Esquire Magazine e nella selezione di
Thames&Hudson per 60 innovatori negli ultimi 60 anni, in Blueprint Magazine’s 25 "People who
will Change the World of Design" ed in Forbes Magazine’s "People you need to know in 2011". Fast
Company lo ha inserito nella lista dei "50 Most Influential Designers in America". Inoltre e’ stato
anche incluso nella Smart List 2012 di Wired Magazine “50 People who will Change the World”. Il
progetto per il Digital Water Pavilion è stato nominato da Time Magazine una delle migliori
invenzioni dell’anno 2008. Nel 2011 Carlo è stato selezionato con il suo studio per il ‘Premio
Fondazione Renzo Piano’ come uno dei tre migliori giovani architetti italiani.
Carlo ha presentato le sue ricerche a TED 2011 ed è membro del World Economic Forum Global
Agenda Council for Urban Management, oltre ad essere program director dello Strelka Institute for
Media, Architecture and Design di Mosca e curatore del BMW Guggenheim Pavilion 2012 a
Berlino. Nel giugno 2007 il Ministro della Cultura Italiano ha nominato Carlo Ratti membro
dell’Italian Design Council – un’istituzione creata dal Governo Italiano che include 25 personalità di
spicco del design italiano. Nel 2009 Carlo è stato nominato Inaugural Innovator in Residence dallo
Stato del Queensland, Australia ed è curatore del Padiglione Future Food District per l’ Expo 2015
a Milano.
An architect and engineer by training, Carlo Ratti practices in Italy and teaches at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the Senseable City Lab. He graduated
from the Politecnico di Torino and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and later
earned his MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Carlo holds several patents and has co-authored over 250 publications. As well as being a regular
contributor to the architecture magazine Domus and the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, he has
written for the BBC, La Stampa, Scientific American and The New York Times. His work has been
exhibited worldwide at venues such as the Venice Biennale, the Design Museum Barcelona, the
Science Museum in London, GAFTA in San Francisco and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Carlo has been featured in Esquire Magazine’s ‘2008 Best & Brightest’ list and in
Thames&Hudson’s selection of ‘60 innovators’ shaping our creative future. In 2010 Blueprint
Magazine included him as one of the ‘25 People Who Will Change the World of Design’, Forbes
listed him as one of the ‘Names You Need To Know’ in 2011 and Fast Company named him as one
of the ’50 Most Influential Designers in America’. He was also featured in Wired Magazine’s ‘Smart
List 2012: 50 people who will change the world’. His Digital Water Pavilion at the 2008 World Expo
was hailed by Time Magazine as one of the ‘Best Inventions of the Year’. In 2012 Carlo was
selected with his design office as one of the top three young architects for the ’Premio Fondazione
Renzo Piano’.
Carlo has been a presenter at TED 2011, program director at the Strelka Institute for Media,
Architecture and Design in Moscow, curator of the 2012 BMW Guggenheim Pavilion in Berlin, and
was named Inaugural Innovator in Residence by the Queensland Government. The Italian Minister
of Culture also named Carlo as a member of the Italian Design Council - an advisory board to the
Italian Government that includes 25 leaders of design in Italy. He is currently serving as a member
of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Urban Management and is a curator for
the Future Food District Pavilion for Expo 2015 in Milan.