Lecture's IaaC - MAA Lecture: Carlo Ratti

Where: IAAC,C/ Pujades 102, Poble Nou, Barcelona
Date: Monday  the 28th of November

Time: 19.30pm- 21.00pm
Title: Senseable Cities

An architect and engineer by training, Carlo Ratti practices in Italy and
teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs
the Senseable City Lab. He graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and
the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and later earned his
MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. Ratti has co-authored
over 200 publications and holds several patents. His work has been
exhibited worldwide at venues such as the Venice Biennale, the Design
Museum Barcelona, the Science Museum in London, GAFTA in San
Francisco and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. His Digital Water
Pavilion at the 2008 World Expo was hailed by Time Magazine as one of
the Best Inventions of the Year.

In June 2007 the Italian Minister of Culture named Carlo Ratti as a
member of the Italian Design Council - an advisory board to the Italian
Government that includes 25 leaders of design in Italy. He was also
named 2009 Inaugural Innovator in Residence by the Queensland
Government, included in Esquire Magazine’s ‘2008 Best & Brightest’ list
and in Thames&Hudson’s selection of ‘60 innovators’ shaping our creative
future.

In 2010 Blueprint Magazine selected him as one of the ‘25 People
Who Will Change the World of Design’ and Forbes listed him as one of
the ‘Names You Need To Know’ in 2011. He was recently a presenter at
TED 2011 and is serving as a member of the World Economic Forum
Global Agenda Council for Urban Management.