"The City of Tomorrow": a Presentation by MIT Professor Carlo Ratti
from Thursday, November 30, 2017 5:00PM to Thursday, November 30, 2017 7:15PM
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Carlo Ratti Associati's NYC office and Cornell Tech request the pleasure of your company at "The City of Tomorrow", a presentation by Carlo Ratti, professor of the Practice of Urban Technologies and director of the SENSEable City Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The presentation will be held at Cornell Tech's Bloomberg Auditorium on November 30th, 2017, starting at 6pm, and it will be introduced by Dan Huttenlocher, founding Dean and Vice Provost of Cornell Tech. The event will be followed by an Italian aperitivo offered by Carlo Ratti Associati's NYC office. Please visit the event's page on Carlo Ratti Associati's website. Dezeen is media partner for this event. ABOUT CARLO RATTI An architect and engineer by training, Professor Carlo Ratti teaches at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the Senseable City Lab, and is a founding partner of the international design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA). He graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and later earned his MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. Ratti has co-authored over 500 publications (including "The City of Tomorrow", Yale University Press, 2016, with Matthew Claudel) and holds several patents. His work has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the Venice Biennale, the Design Museum in Barcelona, the Science Museum in London, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Two of his projects – the Digital Water Pavilion and the Copenhagen Wheel – have been included by TIME Magazine in the list of the ‘Best Inventions of the Year’. He has been featured in Esquire Magazine’s "Best and Brightest" list and in Wired Magazine’s "Smart List." Blueprint Magazine included him among the "25 People who will Change the World of Design," and Fast Company named him as one of the "50 Most Influential Designers in America." Ratti was a presenter at TED, curator of the Future Food District pavilion for the 2015 World Expo in Milan, and is currently serving as both a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Cities and special adviser on Urban Innovation to the European Commission. As well as being a regular contributor to Project Syndicate, he has written for international media including The New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Scientific American, BBC, and others. carloratti.com ABOUT DEZEEN Dezeen is the world’s most popular and influential architecture and design magazine, and the winner of numerous awards for journalism and publishing. Our mission is simple: to bring you a carefully edited selection of the best architecture, design and interiors projects and news from around the world. Dezeen was launched at the end of November 2006 and has grown rapidly ever since. Our audience has grown each year and by February 2017 we were getting 2.5 million unique visitors per month, making us one of the 7,500 most popular websites on the planet according to Alexa, as well as the most popular website about design. dezeen.com
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