An architect and engineer by training, Dr Carlo Ratti works on the future of cities and the built environment. He is a Professor of the Practice of Urban Technologies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, where he directs the Senseable City Lab, and is a Full Professor in the Department of Architecture, Built Environment, and Construction Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. He is a founding partner of the international architecture and innovation office CRA - Carlo Ratti Associati and has established several tech start-ups in the United States and Europe. Dr Ratti graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris and later carried out his MPhil and PhD work at the University of Cambridge - completing his PhD thesis as a Fulbright Scholar at MIT. In December 2023, he was named as Curator of the Venice Biennale Architettura 2025.

❝We ought to be curious like a modern flâneur, or flâneuse! Walk the streets, observe, imagine. Like William Whyte with his Super 8, use today’s tools – digital video, AI - to uncover hidden patterns and overlooked spaces. Let data guide design, and design spark imagination. This is how we reclaim our cities: one insight, one intervention, one moment of civic curiosity at a time.❞ — Dr Carlo Ratti on "Curiosity"