Speaker Profile: Carlo Ratti

Carlo Ratti is an architect and engineer who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He directs the SENSEable City Laboratory, a research initiative with MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning and Media Lab, which explores the increasing use of sensors and hand-held electronics and their relationship to the built environment. He is founding partner and principal of Carlo Ratti Associati, an international architectural design practice based in Turin.

Carlo graduated from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees in Paris, France with a M.S in Civil Engineering. He holds an MPhil in Environmental Design and a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Cambridge, U.K. A junior fellow of the Aspen Institute, Carlo has co-authored over eighty scientific publications and several patents. He is a regular contributor of articles on architecture to Domus, Casabella and the leading Italian newspapers La Stampa and Il Sole 24 Ore (Domenica).

Why LIFT

For Carlo, LIFT is going to be a lift to the next big thing…

What Carlo expects

Carlo expects the conference to be an opportunity to meeting old friends, make new ones in a place which is all about exchanging ideas…