The smart city and wider smart technology sector, like many new sectors, is made of many pioneering converts from its founding industries as well as a new generation of experts born into the field. Few, however, blur the lines between these two groups, and perhaps none more so than MIT professor Carlo Ratti. An architect and engineer by training, Ratti directs the Senseable City Lab at MIT. He is also a founding partner of the international design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati. 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 been listed as one of Esquire Magazine’s ‘Best & Brightest’, Thames & Hudson’s ‘60 innovators’ shaping our creative future, Blueprint Magazine’s ‘25 People Who Will Change the World of Design’, Forbes ‘Names You Need To Know’, and Fast Company ‘50 […]