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Carlo Ratti Associati unveils Paint by Drone - a portable system to draw on urban facades using drone formations. The first installations are planned for fall 2017 in Berlin, Germany and Turin, Italy
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International design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati has developed Paint by Drone - a portable technological solution to draw on urban facades using drone formations. Paint by Drone aims at turning any blank vertical surface into a lively space for both participatory artistic expression and the visualization of urban data. The first installations of Paint by Drone are planned for fall 2017 in Berlin, Germany, and Turin, Italy.
Paint by Drone employs a set of one-meter wide drones, each of them equipped with sensors and carrying a spray paint tank. Drones can draw content submitted digitally, via an app. The artistic input can come from either crowdsourced platforms or from a curator orchestrating the contributions of several people. In its initial implementation, the project proposes to use the facades of construction sites as giant canvases.
Paint by Drone represents a next step in Carlo Ratti Associati’s research on both vertical drawing and open-source design, which includes projects such as OSARC (Open Source Architecture) at the 2012 Istanbul Design Biennial and the Vertical Plotter system featured at Milan Expo 2015's Future Food District, which entered the Guinness World Record as the world's largest plotted image.
The new concept pushes the previous boundaries of time and space, having the potential to be installed in just a few hours and on any surface.
Please access the full press kit - with IMAGES and text - here.
More images, videos and information are available upon request: pr@carloratti.com
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Lift-Bit to hit record in Chinese show
Next month, more than 100 modules of our Lift-Bit seating system (above, in its most basic unit) will be exhibited at the Zhejiang Art Museum in Hangzhou, in what is the largest show ever of our shape-shifting sofa. Lift-Bit will be featured in the vast KUKA Furnishing Concept Design Exhibition, from the 3rd to the 10th of June. Don't miss the event if you happen to be in Eastern China! |
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Carlo Ratti receives Architizer A+ Award
We are excited to share news that Carlo Ratti is among the Special Honorees of this year's Architizer A+Awards. Carlo was conferred the Advocate Award "for his extraordinary contribution to the fields of architecture and design, championing architecture's potential to positively impact everyday life." The award ceremony will be held in New York on the 11th of May.
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SEEDS & CHIPS
MILAN, ITALY
8 MAY 2017
Seeds & Chips aims to establish Milan as an international capital of food innovation, by carrying the torch of the 2015 World Expo's legacy. Carlo Ratti will join the event's third edition, in which the guest of honor will be the former US President Barack Obama.
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CISCO'S IOT WORLD FORUM
LONDON, UK
24 MAY 2017
At this leading event hosted by Cisco at London's Tobacco Dock, Carlo will give the closing keynote, to assess both the current and prospected impacts of the Internet of Things on several industries - from hi-tech to automation, design and logistics. |
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THE SUNDAY TIMES
/ 16 APRIL 2017
The Sunday Times features Lift-Bit as one of the "most exciting new releases" at 2017 Milan Design Week. The updated design of our shape-shifting sofa, unveiled in early April, features wooden legs and a control system with capacitive sensors. You can make your pre-order now at Lift-Bit.com
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WIRED US
/ 20 APRIL 2017
Wired magazine writes about SWISH, the prototype of a wooden stool realized by CRA for Cassina, also presented at Milan Design Week. Analyzing the seat's algorithm-based design, Margaret Rhodes concludes that the project is "reinventing—or at least, seriously rethinking" the "lowly folding chair".
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FRAME
/ MARCH 2017
In this exclusive interview with FRAME, Carlo Ratti discusses how spaces - from bars to supermarkets, such as CRA's Future Food District - can evolve in a world of Big Data. In the new scenario, a major challenge for designers is to integrate technology in the built environment in a seamless way.
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ARCHITECTURAL RECORD
/ APRIL 2017
Water has been a recurring element in CRA projects - from the Digital Water Pavilion to the master plan for Currie Park in West Palm Beach, Florida. In this article, Carlo explains the reasons for such a fascination: "Water is a reconfigurable material. It allows us to develop adaptive designs".
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CORRIERE DELLA SERA
/ 5 APRIL 2017
In this editorial for a leading Italian daily, Carlo writes on how robotics and A.I. can reshape many circumstances of our individual life - starting with mobility. Nonetheless, it will be politics to ultimately determine whether new technologies will have a positive or negative impact at a societal level.
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BMW'S "THE NEXT 100" BOOK
/ DECEMBER 2016
To celebrate and reflect on BMW's 100 years of history, Carlo Ratti sits with BMW shareholder Susanne Klatten for a wide-ranging discussion on mobility and urban futures. From self-driving cars to sharing rides, "cities will dramatically change - not so much on the surface, but in the way they function."
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