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Today, man no longer needs to seek heat, spotlights of heat can follow you. In a particularly heated start to the Venice Architecture Biennale, LOCAL WARMING installation attracted attention, raising several questions on energy efficiency in buildings and especially how to create personalized climates around individuals. The current prototype is on display in Venice until November 23rd, while the first commercial application of this technology is being developed for both outdoor and indoor spaces. Local Warming system has been notably featured in The Economist, Forbes, Il Sole 24 ore, Wired, The Independent and Phys.Org. 
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Carlo visited Paris on June 23rd to join the INTERNATIONAL FORUM OF THE HUMAN SMART CITY. The conference brought together the world’s highest calibre, united around a common goal: to build today, together, the living city of tomorrow. Carlo brought his expertise as to how new technologies can allow us to promote urban transformations at many levels.
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The workplace, as it turns out, is no longer defined by place. The construction of the lobby in this new complex, in Italy, is currently on-going, creating a space in which it is natural to experiment and interact with your peers. Thanks to new forms of connectivity, the way companies organize teams and build infrastructure has evolved and work can now occur anywhere, on any device.
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THE INTERNET OF EVERYTHING 
ROME / 3 JULY 2014
The Innovation Group will launch its IoE Summit in collaboration with Cisco Italia, focusing on the themes of Expo 2015. Carlo will speak on “Senseable Living” and moderate a session on "Building Smart Cities". 
EUROPEAN FORUM ALPBACH 
ALPBACH / 28-29 AUGUST 2014
European Forum Alpbach is an interdisciplinary platform for socio-political dialogue and notably about “Creating Liveable and Inclusive Cities”. Carlo will attend the panel on “Providing Affordable Housing For All”. 
Brisbane Times 
/ 1 JUNE 2014
Speaking at the International Transport Forum in Leipzig, Carlo explained why Airbnb and Uber were good examples of how access to information and “big data” can improve infrastructure and urban efficiency. 		   The Straits Times 
/ 8 JUNE 2014
During the World Cities Summit in Singapore, ideas for shaping our urban future have striggered many discussions. For Carlo, "the end result for people should be a city that is more liveable and uses less resources. 
Forbes
/ 12 JUNE 2014
Forbes showcases the Local Warming installation in Venice: a smart heating system that uses motion tracking in real-time to targets people in a building and synchronizes climate control with those occupants.		   Project Syndicate 
/ 16 JUNE 2014
The “Life in the Uber City”, originally described by Carlo in Project Syndicate, has been widely published around the world in prestigious newspapers such as El Pais, La Stampa, the Straits Times, and Finanz und Wirtschaft. 
PhysOrg
/ 16 JUNE 2014
For the first time, a standard data collection analysis has allowed us to evaluate mobility across countries taking into account time, distance and means of transportation."
 		   The Economist
/ 16 JUNE 2014
The absence of correlation between building occupancy and the amount of energy supplied, reveals that the energy used for heating could in theory be cut dramatically.  
Wales Online
/ 18 JUNE 2014
Unmanned remote controlled systems developed in Wales will be used in a research programme by MIT’s Senseable City Lab to collect and test water samples for quality analysis."		   Wired
/ 20 JUNE 2014
MIT’s Senseable City Lab is currently looking at how to reduce the amount of wasted energy by inventing a radical new way to heat our buildings. Local Warming is “almost like a personal sun”. 
CORE 77 DESIGN AWARDS awarded Makr Shakr as a runner up in the interaction category for the way it turns users into virtual barmen - exploring the dynamics of social co-creation and digital manufacturing while raising the question: what happens when we all become makers of anything and everything in this world?
 
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