Department of Architecture Lecture
University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
26/09/2024
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 4.
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.
(1.1) Latest OP–EDs
(1.2) Latest Books
Atlas of the Senseable City
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The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life
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Open Source Architecture
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Decoding the City: Urbanism in the Age of Big Data
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Architettura Open Source
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Senseable City Guide
Read it Now(1.4) Social Media
Logistics moves goods, but it also shapes territory. With X-Change, Alessandria links into a wider European network: connecting the sea to the Alps, Milan, Turin, and Genova. It also stitches the city back together: center and periphery.
#XChange #CRA #FutureOfLogistics
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Welcome to Europe’s newest solar rail yard ☀️
At X-Change in Alessandria, a 2-kilometer photovoltaic canopy spans:
– Freight platforms for rail and road
– Cycling and pedestrian paths
– Urban forests and civic green space
#XChange #CRA
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What if logistics could be rethought as a form of social infrastructure? In Alessandria, CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, The Blossom Avenue Partners, LAND, GET, and Mobiliter transform a former rail yard into X-Change: a multimodal hub where energy, ecology, and public space intersect.
Read more on our website.
#XChange #CRA
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The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, "Intelligens: Natural, Artificial and Collective" invites visitors to confront the planet`s future—one maze-like installation at a time as described by The New York Times OpEd "Searching for Meaning Amid the Jumble, at the Venice Architecture Biennale".
Read the full article at the link in our bio. @labiennale #labiennaledivenezia
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There is a strong Senseable presence at the 19th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management in London! Here, a few former Senseables grabbed dinner post-conference. Great to see so many of our Labbies together!
Left to right: Maosu, Winston, Rohit, Tom, Cate, Arianna, Yuan, and Minwook, who is not SCL, but MIT LCAU!
#community #CUPUM #alumni #urbanplannjng #MIT
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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…
(2.1) Latest papers
Sustainable Cities and Society
Scientific Reports
npj Urban Sustainability
Scientific Reports
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Martin Beech (ed.) Geoengineering and Climate Change: Methods, Risks, and Governance (Scrivener), and Governance (Scrivener), Martin Beech (ed.) Geoengineering and Climate Change: Methods, Risks
(2.2) Teaching roles
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
Cambridge, United States
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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.
Start–up entrepreneurship
Carlo believes that innovation has to make it into the real world – and we have created an ecosystem of startups. We have received more than 500 million dollars to fund multiple projects internationally, in the field of micro-mobility, leisure, and construction.
