Carlo Ratti calls for redesign of "dinosaur" hospitals and universities for the post-coronavirus era
Hospitals and universities are "dinosaurs" that need to be redesigned in the wake of coronavirus, according to architect Carlo Ratti. More
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Live interview with architect Carlo Ratti as part of Virtual Design Festival
Architect Carlo Ratti spoke to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival. More
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Carlo Ratti's Pura-Case uses "ozone power" to sanitise clothes
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati has designed a concept for a battery-powered wardrobe purifier that uses ozone to remove bacteria and viruses from the user's clothes. More
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Shipping-container intensive care unit installed at Turin hospital
A two-bed intensive care unit within a shipping container, designed by Italian architects Carlo Ratti and Italo Rota, has been built at a hospital in Turin and is being used to treat patients fighting the coronavirus. More
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Carlo Ratti's Eyes of the City exhibition in Shenzhen tracks visitors with facial-recognition tech
Architect and MIT professor Carlo Ratti stokes the surveillance debate with his biennale exhibition, which is set in a working train station in China and uses facial-recognition technology. More
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Daan Roosegaarde partners with Scribit to bring space waste into people's living rooms
Designer Daan Roosegaarde is the latest creative to collaborate with Carlo Ratti's Scribit project, creating a robot-drawn illustration based on his ongoing research into space waste. More
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Carlo Ratti's orange squeezer serves juice in bioplastic cups made from the peel
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati has developed an orange juice bar that turns the waste fruit peel into 3D-printed bioplastic cups to drink the contents from, as an example of the circular economy in practice. More
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RoundAround dynamic "bridge" is made of autonomous boats
Carlo Ratti and his team at MIT's Senseable City Lab have come up with a "bridge" made of continuously circling autonomous boats for a tricky patch of Amsterdam's waterway. More
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Olafur Eliasson and Carlo Ratti collaborate on robot that charts the sun
Artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Carlo Ratti have collaborated on a celestial mapping robot that brings together their hit design brands Little Sun and Scribit. More
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Carlo Ratti uses drones to create "world's first crowdsourced graffiti"
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati used a swarm of drones to graffiti this artwork in Turin that is based on visual content submitted by hundreds of contributors. More
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Carlo Ratti imagines how Boulevard Périphérique in Paris will look in 2050
Paris' famous Périphérique ring road could have its car lanes slashed by half and replaced by a playground in the switch to driverless cars, says Carlo Ratti. More
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"China is one of the best places for experimenting" with urban technology says Carlo Ratti
All eyes should be on China in the race to develop smart cities, says architect Carlo Ratti, who is co-curating this year's Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen. More
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Carlo Ratti grows Gaudí-inspired structures with a kilometre of mushroom mycelium
Italian architect Carlo Ratti has grown a series of arched architectural structures from mushroom mycelium, which will be returned to the soil after Milan design week is over, in a fully circular fashion. More
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Carlo Ratti designs driverless robotic bar called Guido
Italian architect Carlo Ratti has revealed his concept for an autonomous robotic cafe and bar that would make on-demand cocktails for city-dwellers wherever they are. More
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Carlo Ratti develops Livingboard prefab housing system for rural India
Architect Carlo Ratti has worked with Indian non-profit WeRise to develop a system of low-cost housing with a prefabricated core that homeowners can build any structure they like on top of. More
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Carlo Ratti and Sidewalk Labs collaborate to build reconfigurable Dynamic Street
Italian architect Carlo Ratti and Alphabet company Sidewalk Labs have worked together on a modular paving system that can change the use of a street throughout the day. More
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Nino robotic bartender can make "any drink in seconds"
Italian architect Carlo Ratti and his company Makr Shakr have launched a mass-market robotic cocktail maker. More
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Algorithms could reduce taxi numbers by half, says Carlo Ratti
Cities would need half as many taxis if human drivers were replaced with robots, according to new research coordinated by Carlo Ratti, director of MIT's Senseable City Lab. More
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Carlo Ratti's scribing robot turns walls into "digital content canvases"
Italian architect Carlo Ratti has created an internet-connected writing robot that is able to draw and erase images on any surface. More
