Convenor: Jane Burry, RMIT SIAL Research Fellow

Professor Carlo Ratti is an Italian architect and engineer who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. There he directs the SENSEable City Laboratory – an institution that uses the increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics to allow a new approach to the study of the built environment. He is currently the Queensland Innovator in Residence. Carlo Ratti’s work has been exhibited in leading museums worldwide, including the Kunsthaus Graz (2005), Vienna Biennale (2004, 2006, 2008), MoMA (2008), and Design Museum Barcelona (2009). Carlo has co-authored over 100 scientific publications and holds several patents. His Digital Water Pavilion at the World Expo 2008 was hailed by TIME magazine as one of the ‘Best Inventions of the Year’.

MIT SENSEable City Laboratory
http://senseable.mit.edu/

Practice: Carlo Ratti Associati, Turin/Boston
http://www.carloratti.com/

Contact: Margaret Woods, Executive Officer
Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory
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