Carlo Ratti is an Italian architect, urban planner, and architecture theorist. He currently teaches at the MIT in Boston, US, and runs the MIT Senseable City Lab.
Among his most remarkable projects are the Digital Water Pavillion and the Copenhagen Wheel, both listed as “Best Inventions of the Year” by Time (in 2007 and 2014, respectively). The Copenhagen Wheel also won the prestigious Red Dot: Best of the Best award in 2014.
During a TED Talk in 2011 in Long Beach, Ratti introduced the idea of an architecture capable of sensing and responding to digital technologies that increasingly connect and transform the interactions between humans and the built environment.
Carlo Ratti is a member of the Italian Design Council (Consiglio Italiano del Design), an Italian government advisory committee composed of 25 design leaders in the country. Moreover, he was co-president of the Global Future Council on City and Urbanization of the World Economic Forum, and he acted as special advisor on Digital Smart Cities at the European Commission between 2015 and 2018.