Lecture by Carlo Ratti

Carlo Ratti is a scientist, designer, and public intellectual working on the future of cities and
the built environment. One of the top ten most-cited scholars in the field of urban planning,
he teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, where he directs the
Senseable City Lab, and is Distinguished Professor of urban studies at the Politecnico di Milano.
His work includes the influence of big data and digital technologies on urban life, the future of
mobility, participatory urban design and the convergence between the natural and artificial world.