Livin’ on the Edge

“Maybe Venice is a city that can save the world,” Carlo Ratti, architect, curator, educator describes in a BBC video article.

He continues “Architecture is about survival. We need to bring together all different forms of intelligence: natural, artificial and collective.”

“There’s something wrong in the world today, I don’t know what it is.”

-Aerosmith. Boys from Boston. NH even. Apparently they agree.

BBC and Rolex are embarking on a project to explore the arts.

https://www.bbc.com/arts/arts-in-motion?id=p0ldjbq4

A Living Lab

“Venice could be an incredible lab. Somehow you could say, Venice today is the world tomorrow.”

At about 1:00 in the video, Carlo says “I think the main issue for the design and architecture world in 2025 is about adaptation.”

“Architecture and design are about the future. And so they are about optimism, about how we can change things, the present, into something else.”

“And as a great philosopher, Karl Popper said, optimism, you know, is a duty.”

Resilience & Disruption Newsletter

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