Information Design/2012/35 min/Reel № 12.001
ByMIT SENSEable City Laboratory
Carlo Ratti & Assaf Biderman on how cities communicate through digital technologies
I Am Not a Designer/Recorded 2012
A close reading, kept within reach.
MIT SENSEable City Laboratory takes information design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in USA in 2012, the conversation is grounded in MIT's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
Carlo Ratti and Assaf Biderman explore the way objects can communicate and tell unexpected stories.
About the speaker
MIT SENSEable City Laboratory
Massachusetts/USA
Carlo Ratti and Assaf Biderman teach at the MIT, where they are director and associate director (respectively) of the SENSEable City Laboratory.
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