As part of the Ideas Festival in March, acclaimed Italian Architect and engineer Professor Carlo Ratti presented Future Cities.

Named as ‘Queensland’s Innovator in Residence’, Ratti teaches at MIT in the United States where he is the director of the SENSEable City Laboratory – focussing on studying the environment through news techniques using senors and hand-held electronics.

Make some time to view this first half of his presentation, then click here to see Part 2.

Video courtesy of SlowTV and the Ideas Festival

ideasfestival.com.au