Professor Carlo Ratti
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 practice Carlo Ratti Associati. A leading voice in the debate on new technologies’ impact on urban life, his work has been exhibited in several venues worldwide, including the Venice Biennale, New York’s MoMA, London’s Science Museum, and Barcelona’s Design Museum. Two of his projects – the Digital Water Pavilion and the Copenhagen Wheel – were hailed by Time Magazine as ‘Best Inventions of the Year’. 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, and as special advisor on Urban Innovation to the European Commission.
Links
Website: https://www.carloratti.com/; http://senseable.mit.edu/
Twitter: @crassociati; @SenseableCity
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cratti
Federico Riches is an architect graduated cum laude from TU Delft in January 2017 with a thesis exploring new industrial paradigms in response to current social, economic and technological disruptions. Through his Bachelor he developed a strong interest in modular architecture which he deepened in professional experiences at Tempohousing in Amsterdam in 2013 and LOT-EK in New York in 2014. While at TU Delft, Federico was a board member of BouT student association and worked as a research assistant for the Urbanism department. More recently Federico has
developed an interest in spatial data science that he is now strengthening with a GIS & Design course at Pratt. He joined CRA in April 2017 and is currently directing CRA’s data visualisation department.
Links
Website: https://www.carloratti.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/federico-riches-2130b82b
Alberto Benetti graduated in Architecture and Building Engineering from the University of Trento in 2017 with a focus on the potential of new technologies and open-source strategies in the urban context. His master thesis “HE.RE. – a kit for temporary reactivation of urban vacancies,” developed a prototype of a software to map underused buildings by using heterogeneous sets of data to direct the installation of a network of sensing urban devices able to temporarily reactivate these buildings by creating new active public spaces for open-source strategies. Since
2016, his research has been awarded by the IEEE Smart Cities Initiative and has been presented most recently – among other occasions – at the IAAC Responsive Cities Symposium in Barcelona. After having attended the first semester of the Mario Cucinella’s School of Sustainability, he joined CRA in January 2018 as an architect.
Links
Website: https://www.carloratti.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alberto-benetti-6800aa138