Carlo Ratti...2012/06/09 · Carlo Ratti Carlo F. Ratti is an Italian architect and engineer who...
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11/06/12 PopTech : People : Carlo Ratti 1/5 poptech.org/people/carlo_ratti Twitter Tumblr Facebook Email Newsletter Search poptech.org Go About Initiatives Fellows Conferences & Events Labs Blog Videos People Carlo Ratti Carlo F. Ratti is an Italian architect and engineer who practices in Torino, Italy, and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, where he directs the MIT SENSEable City Lab. In 2002 Ratti established the design office carlorattiassociati – Walter Nicolino and Carlo Ratti in Torino, Italy. The office was selected at the 2004 Venice Biennale as one of the top Italian practices. In May 2007 the office presented a design for a pavilion featuring walls made of “digital water” at the entrance to the 2008 International Exhibition in Zaragoza, Spain. Their Digital Water Pavilion, chosen by TIME Magazine as one of the Best Inventions of 2007, was unveiled at its official opening on June 12, 2008, at Expo 2008. In 2004, Ratti established the MIT SENSEable City Lab, an MIT research group that explores the “real-time city” by studying the increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics, and their relationship to the built environment. In February 2008 the SENSEable City Lab presented an installation at the MoMA in New York as part of the exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind.” Called NYTE — the New York Talk Exchange—the project illustrates the global exchange of information in real-time by visualizing volumes of long-distance telephone and Internet data flowing between New York and cities around the world. The group’s work on cities and technology was featured in an entire pavilion at the 2006 Venice Biennale, including a widely-praised project that showed the “heartbeat” of the city of Rome mapped through the analysis of cellphone networks. Previously, the group was involved in the design of 1,000 tsunami-resistant houses in Sri Lanka for the Prajnopaya Foundation. Ratti has authored over 100 academic papers. One of these, published in the journal Environment and Planning B in 2004, stimulated a lively scholarly debate over the merits of
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Carlo F. Ratti is an Italian architect and engineer who practices in Torino, Italy, and teaches at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, where he directs the MIT SENSEable City Lab. In2002 Ratti established the design office carlorattiassociati – Walter Nicolino and Carlo Ratti in Torino,Italy. The office was selected at the 2004 Venice Biennale as one of the top Italian practices. In May2007 the office presented a design for a pavilion featuring walls made of “digital water” at the entranceto the 2008 International Exhibition in Zaragoza, Spain. Their Digital Water Pavilion, chosen by TIMEMagazine as one of the Best Inventions of 2007, was unveiled at its official opening on June 12, 2008,at Expo 2008. In 2004, Ratti established the MIT SENSEable City Lab, an MIT research group thatexplores the “real-time city” by studying the increasing deployment of sensors and hand-heldelectronics, and their relationship to the built environment. In February 2008 the SENSEable City Labpresented an installation at the MoMA in New York as part of the exhibition “Design and the ElasticMind.” Called NYTE — the New York Talk Exchange—the project illustrates the global exchange ofinformation in real-time by visualizing volumes of long-distance telephone and Internet data flowingbetween New York and cities around the world. The group’s work on cities and technology wasfeatured in an entire pavilion at the 2006 Venice Biennale, including a widely-praised project thatshowed the “heartbeat” of the city of Rome mapped through the analysis of cellphone networks.Previously, the group was involved in the design of 1,000 tsunami-resistant houses in Sri Lanka for thePrajnopaya Foundation. Ratti has authored over 100 academic papers. One of these, published in thejournal Environment and Planning B in 2004, stimulated a lively scholarly debate over the merits of
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Space Syntax. In December 2008 he was included in Esquire Magazine’s Best and Brightest list andwas featured in Seed Magazine’s Salon, together with mathematician Steven Strogatz. In January 2009he presented as a delegate to the World Economic Forum in Davos.Read less
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Tags: Ecology Environment Innovation PopTech 2010 waterOn a lighter note, data and the feeling of awe, from @shashashasha. (One image looks familiar!)http://t.co/G11kk5NQ
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People and their technology: Talk to Me opens at the MoMAthis weekendMuseum of Modern Art design department curator Paola Antonelli’s latest show, “Talk to Me,” opens atthe MoMA on July 24, and it has all the makings of a hit. Featuring about 200 design objects, the showpulls together an array of items from art, commercial, and academic spaces that exemplify how peopleand machines interface with one another. The …
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connected statesThere’s always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people,projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week’s highlights follows.
The Connected States of America is the newest project from PopTech 2010 presenter CarloRatti and the SENSEable City Lab at MIT. Read more »
Uncovering the connected states of AmericaThe Connected States of America is the newest project to come out of the SENSEable City Lab at MIT.With PopTech 2010 presenter Carlo Ratti leading the charge, this initiative takes a look at howcommunities are redefining themselves within the United States, tracking social interactions by studyinganonymous, aggregated mobile phone data.
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Carlo Ratti's conveyor belt oil extractorDuring the recent Gulf of Mexico oil spill, 800 skimmers were deployed to recover oil from the water’ssurface. Through this method, only three percent of the oil was collected. Because the boats need tocollect and then separate oil from water but return to shore to do so, it’s an inefficient process.
So what if there were a way to create an inexpensive, scale-able, and …
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