Futurecraft

Architecture, design and environment – unique projects developed with cutting-edge technology. These are at the core of an exhibition on the work of Carlo Ratti at Spazio Fmg.

The “Futurecraft” exhibition explores new areas of design action that venture beyond the mere perception of buildings to look at the fusion of different methods and technologies.

The exhibition focuses on the professional worlds linked to the work of Carlo Ratti, an architect, engineer and researcher as well as curator and designer of the Future Food District for Expo 2015.

MIT Senseable City Laboratory and its Waterfly, a cutting-edge application of drone technology to study and protect water quality, Carlo Ratti Associati and the Digital Water Pavilion developed for Expo 2008 in Zaragoza, Superpedestrian and Makr Shakr with a robotic bartending system – all showcase a multidisciplinary approach that lays the foundations for Tomorrow by Design.

The exhibition is a pathway allowing experimentation with an imagined world that keeps the individual at the centre of an ecosystem redesigned to optimise quality of life.

“In his professional practice, Carlo Ratti draws input from all fields of knowledge and turns it into projects”, says Luca Molinari, scientific head of Spazio FMG and curator of the exhibition, “He does so via futuristic but real and functioning objects of his own invention: from a wheel that explains to cyclists how to optimise their pedalling to a plotter that can write and erase vertically and the table-cum-chair with endless configurations designed for Cassina.”