Carlo Ratti teaches at MIT, where he directs the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative between the Departments of Urban Studies and Planning and Media Lab. He is also Lecturer at the Harvard Design School and Visiting Lecturer at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chauss? in Paris. A civil engineer by education, Carlo graduated from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees in Paris, France. He holds an MPhil and Ph.D. degree in architecture from the University of Cambridge, U.K. He is founding partner and director of Carlo Ratti Associati, an architectural design practice based in Turin, Italy, and involved in a number of national and international schemes. A junior fellow of the Aspen Institute, he has co-authored over thirty scientific publications and several patents. He is a regular contributor of articles on architecture to Domus, Casabella and the leading Italian newspapers La Stampa and Il Sole 24 Ore (Domenica).