Professor Carlo Ratti, director of SENSEable City, MIT, and Carlo Ratti Associati (Torino, Boston, London) is in Australia this March, when he will give a series of talks and RMIT student workshops. Returning to Melbourne for the second part of a Fellowship program with the International Specialised Skills Institute (ISS), he will take part of a range of programs with students and professionals, in collaboration with RMIT University and the City of Melbourne.
On Monday 24 March, he gives a talk at the University of Melbourne on the topic of urban mobility, drawn from experiments underway in cities around the world including Singapore, Copenhagen, Cape Town and New York. On Tuesday 25 March, he gives a business lecture at the Melbourne office of Ernst & Young, followed by a professional masterclass at the RMIT Design Hub. On Thursday 27 March he addresses an invited audience at Melbourne Town Hall (places still available), along with City of Melbourne Design Director, Professor Rob Adams, discussing the Melbourne Floating Garden – his collaborative project with The City of Melbourne and RMIT, for the Turning Basin site on the Yarra River.
