‘OUT’: How Space-Inspired Architecture Could Help Save the Planet

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A Satellite Symphony - Photo by Luca Capuano, courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.

The OUT section of the 2025 Venice Biennale explores how space-driven innovation can build and shape a sustainable future through architecture.

Collective Intelligens: Learning from Shared Wisdom in Architecture

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PROTEST ACHITECTURE FROM GERMAN CLIMATE - Photo by Andrea Avezzù, courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.

The ‘Collective Intelligens’ section at the 2025 Venice Biennale shows how the knowledge communities have passed down across generations can inspire resilient, people-driven architecture and become a pivotal tool to trigger change.

Artificial Intelligens: AI, robots, 3D-printing and data science at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

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'Artificial Intelligens' section of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale - Photo by Andrea Avezzù, courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.

The Artificial Intelligence section of Carlo Ratti’s Biennale shows how technology is shaping the world around us—from the spaces we live in to the systems that keep society running.

Expo 2025 Osaka: Twenty Striking Pavilions

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Netherlands Pavilion Osaka Expo 2025 - ©Plomp.

Renaissance gardens, traditional fishing boats and desert villages inspire the architecture of these striking pavilions at Expo 2025 Osaka.

Intelligens: Carlo Ratti’s Venice Architecture Biennale, a preview

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Circularity Handbook Installation at the INTELLIGENS exhibition in Venice - Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia 2025.

Titled Intelligens, Carlo Ratti’s Biennale focuses on architecture that tackles climate change and today’s global issues with a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach. Kengo Kuma presents a high-tech installation upcycling fallen trees, Ukrainian architects harness AI to rebuild their country, and astronauts invite us to focus on our planet first.

Food and Beverage blend with design at Milan Design Week 2024

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Bis Spoon by Terra ice cream shop - Courtesy of Terra Gelato

Coffee, exotic rums, balsamic vinegar and gelato are the ingredients of some of the best Food and Beverage projects and exhibitions at Milan Design Week 2024.

12 mesmerising installations at Milan Design Week 2023

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GROHE SPA, HEALTH THROUGH WATER installation at Milan Design 2023 - ©GROHE.

A botanical garden turned into an interactive board game, human mandalas, and architectural reflections. 12 mesmerising installations at Milan Design Week 2023.

Brera Design District 2022: Archipanic’s design route in the heart of Milan

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Bera Design District 2022 - Photo by © Mattia Vacca,

There is a lot to discover along the cobbled street of the Brera Design District 2022. Flagship stores of leading Italian and international brands, exhibitions in historic palaces, design apartments, an eclectic symposium and a ‘foamy’ concept cocktail bar.

Ten blooming exhibitions at Milan Design Week 2022

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'Floating Forest' by Stefano Boeri interiors x Timberland - Courtesy of Timberland.

Californian springs, giant olive shoots with golden leaves, floating forests and choreographies with flowers and drones. Milan Design Week celebrates nature with blooming exhibitions.

Italy Pavilion by Carlo Ratti at Dubai Expo is an experiment of circular and reconfigurable architecture

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Italy Pavilion @ Expo Dubai 2020 - Photo by Michele Nastasi, courtesy of CRA - Carlo Ratti Associati.

Italy Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai features three boat hulls as the structure’s roof, a multimedia facade made with two million recycled plastic bottles and a natural climate mitigation system that substitutes air conditioning.

Natural Capital: Carlo Ratti visualises trees’ key role in reducing CO2 through data

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NATURAL CAPITAL by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati x ENI - Photo by Marco Beck Peccoz, courtesy of CRA.

Energy company Eni and CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati present the ‘Natural Capital’ exhibition highlighting the importance of protecting and conserving forests. At the Brera Botanical Garden, a landscape of floating bubbles visualises through data how much CO2 each human produces and how much each tree species can capture and store.

Fuorisalone 2018: 7 secret gardens, eclectic forests and green pavilions in Milan

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piuarch @ Milan Design Week 2018 - Photo by piuarch

Four seasons flourishing under the same roof, a glowing-city at Brera Botanic Orchard and a forest of lanterns under the castle. Nature conquers Milan Design Week 2018; discover green pavilions by Kengo Kuma, piuarch, Mario Cucinella, Carlo Ratti and more…

Carlo Ratti’s responsive workspace for Fondazione Agnelli tunes new working habits with the internet of things

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Fondazione Agnelli by Carlo Ratti Associati - Photo by Beppe Giardino.

Personalized thermal bubbles, suspended nets and a co-working office in the orchard. Carlo Ratti Associati completed a digitally responsive architecture for Fondazione Agnelli. The new hub in Turin embraces new ways of net-working by using bigdata and the internet of things.

Vitra Design Museum explores our love-hate relationship with robots

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"Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine" - Photo by Mark Niedermann; courtesy of Vistra Design Museum.

From Terminator to smart floor sweepers but also 3D printers for bridges and responsive fashion designs. Shall we trust robots? Vitra Design Museum looks into our complex relationship with intelligent machines that could either save our lives or steal our job.

Water mobility: self-driving boats and the internet of sailing, get ready for high-tech hydrodynamics

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Quadrofoil Q2S.

Water mobility: personal submarines and navigating floating gyms, the ultimate water-bike but also self-driving Roboats crossing Amsterdam canals… With 70% of the planet covered in water, the future of traveling might come as a gliding technology.