Carlo Ratti

Carlo Ratti 0 loves cities and the built environment. Ranked as one of the top ten most-cited scholars in urban planning and one of the leading designers in America, he focuses on intelligent systems and the convergence between the natural and artificial worlds. Recently nominated curator of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, he aims to foster a public conversation 1 on our urban habitat, starting from his work at the intersection between academic research 2, innovative design 3,
and start-up entrepreneurship.

Public conversation

Carlo’s opinions on cities, technology, and the future are contributing to a global conversation. Follow his hottest takes across the pages of his books, opinion essays, interviews, and social media.


Atlas of the Senseable City
2023
Carlo Ratti, Antoine Picon
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The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life
2016
Carlo Ratti, Matthew Claudel
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Open Source Architecture
2015
Carlo Ratti, Matthew Claudel
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Decoding the City: Urbanism in the Age of Big Data
2014
Carlo Ratti, Dietmar Offenhuber
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Architettura Open Source
2014
Carlo Ratti
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Senseable City Guide
2011
SENSEable City Lab
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  1. C40 Green and Thriving Neighbourhoods Workshop
    C40 Cities

    Vancouver, Canada

    15/05/2024
  2. Interdisciplinary Incentive Design Workshop
    UCLA Anderson School of Management

    Chicago, United States

    17/05/2024
  3. UCLA INCENTIVE DESIGN CONFERENCE
    UCLA

    Chicago, United States

    18/05/2024
  4. Festival dell’Economia Keynote: L’abitare tra il dire e il fare
    Festival dell'Economia Trento 2024

    Trento, Italy

    23/05/2024
  5. CTSCAPE 2024 Forum
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)

    Daejeon, South Korea

    30/05/2024
  6. ULI EUROPE ANNUAL CONFERENCE
    Urban Land Institute

    Milan, Italy

    11/06/2024

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗚𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗮 𝗕𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗶 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘇𝗶𝗮, 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗼 𝗥𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗶  “The Exhibition will search for a path forward, proposing that intelligent solutions to pressing problems can take many forms. It will present a collection of design proposals and many other experiments, exploring a definition of ‘intelligence’ as an ability to adapt to the environment with limited resources, knowledge, or power. Objects, buildings, and urban plans will be arranged along the axis of a multiple and widespread intelligence – organized as natural, artificial, collective, and combinations of the three. While some ideas are destined to fail, others may point us toward redemption”.  You can read Carlo’s whole statement here → www.labiennale.org - LINK IN STORIES  #BiennaleArchitettura2025 #IntelliGens #CarloRatti #LaBiennaleDiVenezia #BiennaleArchitettura @labiennale  📸 Brendan Zhang
𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗘  There are only two days left to see sunRICE, our installation for Milan Design Week 2024, in the fantastic setting of the Orto Botanico di Brera.  The installations, inspired by Yona Friedman’s metabolic structures, represent our latest step in experimenting with materials. After tomatoes, coffee, and mycelium, we are now focusing on rice: the world’s most consumed cereal. This becomes a reflection on how we conceive the built world and how we can use the waste from the materials of our daily lives.  What can we do with rice waste? The debate is just beginning, but with sunRICE, we want to say that we shouldn’t limit ourselves. The possibilities are endless, and as we often say here at CRA, our best project is the one that we are yet to do!  @crassociati #CarloRatti @italorotastudio @internimagazine @eni @fuorisalone @ricehouse.it #InterniFuoriSalone #milanodesignweek #milanodesignweek2024 #mdw2024

Academic research

How can we use new tools to uncover our cities’ hidden secrets? Our team at the MIT Senseable City Lab is publishing new findings all the time. Read on for some of our latest discoveries…

Urban visual intelligence: Studying cities with artificial intelligence and street-level imagery
Carlo Ratti, Fàbio Duarte, Yu Liu, Michael Batty, Fan Zhang, Arianna Salazar-Miranda, Min Chen, Lawrence Vale, Gary Hack
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
10/04/2024
Tools and methods for monitoring the health of the urban greenery
Carlo Ratti, Fàbio Duarte, Simone Mora, Akshit Gupta, Yakir Preisler, Venkatesha Prasad
Nature Sustainability
04/03/2024
Robust Model Predictive Control with Control Barrier Functions for Autonomous Surface Vessels
Carlo Ratti, Wei Wang, Daniela Rus, Wei Xiao, Alejandro Gonzalez-Garcia, Jan Swevers
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
11/02/2024
The trade-off between sustainability and social segregation in the 15-minute city
Arianna Salazar-Miranda, Carlo Ratti
Nature Human Behavior
05/02/2024
The 15-minute city quantified using human mobility data
Carlo Ratti, Paolo Santi, Arianna Salazar-Miranda, Cate Heine, Timur Abbiasov, Ed Glaeser, Sadegh Sabouri
Nature Human Behavior
05/02/2024
Defining a city: delineating urban areas using cell-phone data
Vincent Verbavatz, Paolo Santi, Fàbio Duarte, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Geoffrey B. West, Yu Liu, Michael Batty, Lei Dong, Gilles Duranton, Marc Barthelemy, Michael Goodchild, Denise Pumain, Wenzhong Shi, Carlo Ratti, Anthony Yeh
Nature Cities
20/01/2024

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2007-present

Professor of the Practice of Urban Technologies

MIT International Science andTechnology Initiatives (MISTI) 2009-present

Director

Politecnico di Milano 2022-present

Distinguished Professor

TTUP Tashkent 2023-present

Honorary Professor

University of Cambridge 2017-2019

Visiting Research Fellow

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 2017-2019

Visiting Professor


  1. Senseable Dubai Lab

    Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai

  2. Senseable Amsterdam Lab

    5, Kattenburgerstraat, Amsterdam

  3. KTH Royal Institute of Technology

    16, Kistagången, Kista

  4. Senseable City Lab

    Cambridge

Innovative design

A pavilion with walls of water. A skyscraper covered in plants. A renewable energy battery that doubles as a sauna. Carlo’s design firm, CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, is designing the city of tomorrow and bringing the natural and artificial worlds together.

Wood You Believe
Milan, Italy
Roccia
Turin, Italy
AI Timber
Beijing, China
Walk the Talk
Milan, Italy

  1. CRA HQ Turin

    Italy

  2. CRA London

    London

  3. CRA New York

    United States


Emerging Technologies Award
Winner

AI Timber
Netexplo
23/04/2024
German Design Award – Excellent Architecture
Winner

Urban Vision for Manifesta 14
German Design Council
05/12/2023
Best Tall Building, by Region, Asia
Winner

CapitaSpring
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)
20/11/2023
Best Tall Building, by Height, 200-299 meters
Winner

CapitaSpring
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)
20/11/2023
10 Unbuilt Projects from Established Firms
Winner

Roccia
Archdaily
11/08/2023
Honorable Mention for The International Architecture Award® for 2023
Winner

The Greenary
The Chicago Athenaeum
02/08/2023

Start–up entrepreneurship

Carlo believes that innovation has to make it into the real world – and we have created an ecosystem of startups. We gained more than 500 million dollars to fund multiple projects internationally, in the field of micro-mobility, leisure, and construction

Makr Shakr
Italy
Superpedestrian
United States of America
Biobot Analytics
United States of America

  1. Superpedestrian

    Cambridge

  2. Roccia
    Maestro Technologies

    Turin

  3. Shaker
    Makr Shakr

    Turin

  4. Greene School
    Maestro Technologies

    Palm Beach

  5. Sandbox VR
    Makr Shakr

    London

  6. Changi Airport Terminal 2
    Makr Shakr

    Singapore


Robótica Camarero Tamaño del mercado, participación, tendencias, pronóstico para 2032
ellastecuentan Spain
26/12/2023
Comment on The Future of Boozing by DenverGregg
Modern Drunkard United States of America
20/12/2023
Makr Shakr 2023: Makr Shakr’s Robots Offer Different Features to Draw in Customers For All Types of Locations!
DeliveryRank
17/12/2023
Whiteboard drawing robot
Hackster.io United States of America
16/12/2023
Over 50 Great Last Minute Geeky Tech Gifts
Paste Magazine United States of America
13/12/2023
Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas: Overview and What to Do
www.cruisehive.com United States of America
10/12/2023