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Carlo Ratti

Architect, founder of the Carlo Ratti Associati design firm, Carlo Ratti is a researcher and professor at MIT, and the director of the MIT SENSEable City Lab—one of the leading research centers on the city and new technologies. His approach to urban spaces is based on the central place occupied by information, which is disrupting the very nature of cities as well as their day-to-day operations. This has led him to develop the concept of the “real-time city.”   Carlo Ratti Associati

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Urban and digital convergence

Carlo Ratti

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Urban and digital convergence

Carlo Ratti is an architect and the director of the Senseable City Lab of the MIT, a research institute that develops tools through design and science to learn about cities. The internet of things allows us to manage urban systems in a more efficient way: waste, traffic, lighting, etc. The biological world is increasingly converging with digital and physical environments. As an expert of Open-Source architecture, Ratti explains how collaborative systems are essential tools to build the cities of tomorrow.

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Cities of Information

Carlo Ratti

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Cities of Information

An ever-increasing number of economic and institutional entities have taken up the subject of digital urbanism to conceive and design the smart cities of tomorrow, but also to program the technological shift that affects the cities of today. Spearheading this research is Professor Carlo Ratti, who describes the central role played by information in the development of cities and the way it is redefining their vision, their very nature and their day-to-day operations. He then describes for Stream the urban data processing experiments that his MIT laboratory, the SENSEable Lab, has conducted. These have led to the concept of the “real-time city”, which is equipped with sensors to capture and process data in addition to being characterized by “opportunistic remote sensing” of data that is generated by the behavior of the residents themselves. Managing and inhabiting cities becomes more efficient through this open-source approach. Carlo Ratti is an architect, founder of the Carlo Ratti Associati design firm. He is a researcher and teaches at the MIT SENSEable City Lab.

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