Carlo Ratti is an Italian architect, urban planner and
architectural theorist. He currently teaches at MIT in Boston, USA,
and directs the MIT Senseable City Lab. Among his most notable
projects are the Digital Water Pavilion and the Copenhagen Wheel,
both of which were included in Time magazine's list of “Best
Inventions of the Year” (in 2007 and 2014). The Copenhagen Wheel
also won the prestigious Red Dot: Best of the Best award in 2014.
In a 2011 TED Talk in Long Beach, Ratti introduced the idea of
architecture that can sense and respond to the digital technologies
that increasingly interconnect and transform the interaction between humans and the built
environment. Ratti is a member of the Italian Design Council, an advisory committee to the
Italian government composed of 25 of the country's design leaders. In addition, he served as
co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanisation
and served as special advisor to the European Commission on Digital and Smart Cities from
2015 to 2018.