Artist
Carlo Ratti
Carlo Ratti
Italian architect, engineer, inventor, educator and activist.
An architect and engineer by training, Professor Carlo Ratti teaches at MIT, where he directs the Senseable City Laboratory, and is a founding partner of the international design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati based in Turin and New York. A leading voice in the debate on new technologies’ impact on urban life, he has been included in Wired Magazine’s ‘Smart List: 50 People Who Will Change the World’. He is currently serving as co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization.
We imagine the city of tomorrow as a scene where the natural and the artificial will increasingly intersect.
The New Humanity!
VITAE
We imagine the city of tomorrow as a scene where the natural and the artificial will increasingly intersect.
VITAE, a new building with vineyard in the center of Milan, epitomizes this attitude, as both the workspace for scientific researchers and their temporary residences.
VITAE
The occupants of VITAE embrace different personas during different times of the day: at work, they embark on a quest for a better, more innovative tomorrow; in their free time, they cultivate an interest that goes back to over a millennium.
The occupants of VITAE embrace different personas during different times of the day.
Carlo Ratti explains his piece of art for The New Humanity project.
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