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If designers, planners, and administrators are to succeed in shaping a grand design for the cities of tomorrow, they can’t rely on the same outdated tools and methods their predecessors used. That’s because answering 21st Century threats like population growth, climate change, joblessness, and technological disruption—to name just a few—will require solutions equal in power to the problems they...
HELLO, ROBOT. Design Between Human and Machine: Part 5
Image: Future Food District, Installation for the World Expo 2015, Milan © Carlo Ratti Associati, photo: Del no Sisto Lignani This series of articles by Carlo Ratti with Daniele Belleri was first published as a catalogue for the Vitra Design Museum's "Hello Robot" exhibition. It is republished here by permission. PART V – PeRmAnenT ciTieS, TRAnSienT inTeRAcTionS At the beginning of the ubiquitous robotics...
HELLO, ROBOT. Design Between Human and Machine: Part 4
Image: Brion Cemetery by Carlo Scarpa This series of articles by Carlo Ratti with Daniele Belleri was first published as a catalogue for the Vitra Design Museum's "Hello Robot" exhibition. It is republished here by permission. PART iV – A cemeTeRY, AFTeR ALL Even assuming that we can solve the hacking issue, will we really end up with a living, tailored architecture that...
HELLO, ROBOT. Design Between Human and Machine: Part 3
Image: Helium Sensors with Smart City Stack This series of articles by Carlo Ratti with Daniele Belleri was first published as a catalogue for the Vitra Design Museum's "Hello Robot" exhibition. It is republished here by permission. PART iii – RiSKY RoBoTicS Despite its ability to meet our needs, the idea of a robotic house still prompts some disturbing thoughts. Living within a...
HELLO, ROBOT. Design Between Human and Machine: Part 2
Image: Carlo Ratti Associati. Digital Water Pavilion for the Zaragoza Expo 2008. © Carlo Ratti Associati, photo: Ramak Fazel This series of articles by Carlo Ratti with Daniele Belleri was first published as a catalogue for the Vitra Design Museum's "Hello Robot" exhibition. It is republished here by permission. PART ii – A RoBoT “FoR LiVing in” The phenomenon that has allowed robots to...
HELLO, ROBOT. Design Between Human and Machine: Part 1
This series of articles by Carlo Ratti with Daniele Belleri was first published as a catalogue for the Vitra Design Museum's "Hello Robot" exhibition. It is republished here by permission. Part 1 - THE UBIQUITOUS ROBOT According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, a robot is “any automatically operated machine that replaces human effort”. For the sake of this essay, however, we will adopt a...
Future of Architects: Extinction or Irrelevance
Post author Barbara White Bryson speaking at the DFC’s Leadership Summit on Collaboration Across the Design Continuum This article is copied with permission from DesignIntelligence. Eric Cesal was frustrated when he graduated from architecture school in the winter of 2008, the year the financial world and architecture world came apart. In his book, Down Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice...
Designing the Digital City
Giving visual and spatial form to big societal ideas can be a designer's greatest challenge. But in an era when so many of those ideas are shaped by digital technology, how do we transform forces that are inherently invisible and make them visible? Designing meaningful architectural and urban form is a big problem when faced with a near endless...
Building Anti-Fragile Cities—A Primer
Have our aspirations for sustainable, livable cities of tomorrow been burned to the ground? Image: B. Fuller's Expo67 Habitat dome in flames. "It's not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change." In a world where massive technological and social change is the norm rather than the exception, cities are the front line response to that change. But...
Design Exchange Toronto Exhibit—Nature or Nurture?
Does evolution design better than we do? MESH Cities is in an exhibit at Toronto's Design Exchange exploring that question. It's an honour to be exhibiting with designers like Mahtab Oskuee, Brent Cordner, Philip Beesley, Fugitive Glue, and Design Tennis. The following is a slightly extended version of the text we've included in the show. Do humans design better than nature? That’s a rhetorical question to...
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