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2019 Program

Event #17

Carlo Ratti

Open Source Architecture

The figure of the “architect-hero” left a big mark in the XX century architecture. But it has not always been like this – back in the days projecting and constructing buildings and cities has always been carried out with collaborative methods and the ideas came from below rather than from the top. Something similar is happening today – and it will happen even more in the future – thanks to the Open Source movement and the new models of participation. Potentially, it represents a proper revolution in the architecture and design fields.

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Carlo Ratti, architect and engineer, teaches at MIT in Boston, where he directs the Senseable City Laboratory, and he is the founder of the international design and innovation studio Carlo Ratti Associati. His works have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Design Museum in Barcelona, the Science Museum in London and the MoMA in New York. Two of his projects - the Digital Water Pavilion and the Copenhagen Wheel - have been nominated by the Time Best Inventions of the Year. Included by Wired among the 50 people who will change the world, he is co-chair of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanisation, and special advisor to the European Commission on digital and smart cities. He has written for Einaudi Architettura Open Source (2014) and La città di domani (with M. Claudel, 2017).

2019 Program

Event #17

Carlo Ratti

Open Source Architecture

Space Exploration: today, tomorrow, and… the day after

And they called it sapiens

The future is history

Sketches

A time that is not near

Popular revolts in Medieval Europe. The Jacquerie of French peasants (1358)

Fragments of extinctions

Our future with A.I.

Will finance save the world?

Jokes on future

Taking care of oneself, of others, of the world

How is Earth’s climate changing?

The art of reading between past and future

The end of «the end of history»

Scott: future’s first explorer

Yesterday’s and tomorrow's diets. How to survive fake news?

Open Source Architecture

The inflamed mind

Will it still be possible to love you?

The race and the language: the future that does (not) expect us

Ernst Henry Shackleton. The hero who defeated the Arctic

The future of the theatre

Piano vs Groove

Popular revolts in Medieval Europe. The rebellion of the Ciompi (1378)

The destiny of a community and many religions: is there a dialogue for the future of humanity?

The Evil’s genes

The future of the word

Looking for immortality

Refugees’ future

What is the perspective of the future of Italy and of the world?

The real truth about plastic and bioplastic (maybe)

Robots of the future and plants

The chimera of peace

Re-writing the future of our children

City art versus outskirts art

Achilles, Odysseus and the truth of the future

Popular revolts in Medieval Europe.
The Jacquerie of French peasants (1358)