18 Facts About Carlo Ratti

Carlo Ratti is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he directs the MIT Senseable City Lab.

In December 2023, Carlo Ratti was appointed by outgoing president Roberto Cicutto as curator of the 19th Venice Biennale of Architecture, opening in 2025.

Carlo Ratti graduated from both the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees in Paris, France, and the Politecnico di Torino in Italy.

Carlo Ratti earned his MPhil and PhD degrees from the Martin Centre at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Carlo Ratti's work includes The Copenhagen Wheel developed by MIT Senseable City Lab explores how any bicycle could be transformed into a network-connected e-bike by sampling changing a wheel hub.

Carlo Ratti has opened a research centre in Singapore as part of an MIT-led initiative on the Future of Urban Mobility.

Carlo Ratti's work has been seminal in intelligent or smart cities.

In 2025, CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati designed the official torches for the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, titled Essential.

Carlo Ratti has taught at the Politecnico di Torino, the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Harvard University, Strelka Institute and MIT.

In 2011, Carlo Ratti was a Lab Team member and curator for the Berlin location of the BMW Guggenheim Lab.

Carlo Ratti was a program director at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow.

Carlo Ratti has been involved in several civic initiatives, most notably to preserve Italy's industrial architecture heritage.

Carlo Ratti is the founder of several start-ups in the United States and Europe.

In 2018, Carlo Ratti contributed to the launch of Scribit, a company manufacturing a portable, wall-mounted drawing robot.

Carlo Ratti has authored over 500 publications, including a book on Opensource Architecture together with Matthew Claudel for Italian publisher Einaudi and the essay "The City of Tomorrow", co-written with Matthew Claudel for Yale University Press.

Carlo Ratti has been opening the way in exploring the use of cellphone data to understand urban dynamics, which has now developed into an established field of scientific investigation.

Carlo Ratti appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity in November 2019.

Carlo Ratti's hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was "A bionic arm".