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Carlo Ratti Associati's NYC office & 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 & 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, & it will be introduced by Dan Huttenlocher, founding Dean & Vice Provost of Cornell Tech.
The event will be followed by an Italian aperitivo offered by Carlo Ratti Associati's NYC office.
ABOUT CARLO RATTI
An architect & engineer by training, Professor Carlo Ratti teaches at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the Senseable City Lab, & is a founding partner of the international design & innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA). He graduated from the Politecnico di Torino & the cole Nationale des Ponts et Chausses in Paris, & later earned his MPhil & 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) & 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, & The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Two of his projects - the Digital Water Pavilion & 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 & Brightest" list & in Wired Magazine's "Smart List." Blueprint Magazine included him among the "25 People who will Change the World of Design," & 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, & is currently serving as both a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Cities & 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, & others.
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