A Commune for the sharing economy

Five months after we premiered it at Milan's Salone del Mobile, we are happy to announce that Lift-Bit, our responsive seating system developed with the support of Vitra, was named a finalist in Fast Company's 2016 Innovation By Design awards (category "Experimental"). In addition to that, since a few weeks our Internet-of-Things sofa is on show within the "Alchemists of Art and Science” exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz (until August 2017).
If you can't make it to Austria, Lift-Bit is available for pre-order online. Keep shapeshifting with us! (photo by Mybosswas)

Makr Shakr, the startup of Carlo Ratti Associati that is synonymous with the world's first robotic bartender, has just ended a fabulous festive season and it's now ready to cross the Atlantic for an autumn tour! From July to September, Makr Shakr on the Road has traveled across Europe - first entertaining crowds at Rihanna, Muse, and Iron Maiden's gigs in Bucharest, then concocting a record 1486 cocktails at London's New Scientist Live festival. From the 22 October, our mobile unit will rock the party at the QuickBooks Connect event in San Jose, California. Follow the next adventures on Makr Shakr's Instagram account.

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The EIU's Empowering City report includes a contribution by Carlo Ratti on how digital technologies are transforming society, industry, and political participation in our cities.

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Dezeen reports on the Pankhasari Retreat, the project by Carlo Ratti Associati and Michele Bonino for a digitally connected co-living and co-working space in the Indian Himalayas.

In this op-ed, Carlo and Dirk Helbing reflect on the risks of algorithmic management and the need of randomness in our lives (read it also on The Straits Times, La Vanguardia)

"The potential of Big Data, both transformative and destructive, is self-evident." Richard J. Williams reviews The City of Tomorrow, the latest book by Carlo and Matthew Claudel.

Fortune explores the Roboat project — a research by MIT and AMS that seeks to design and test the world's first fleet of autonomous boats in the city of Amsterdam.

Carlo and Daniele Belleri write about Constant's "New Babylon" utopia as an inspiration for today's Senseable City. A preview of the article appeared on La Stampa.

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