Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds

www.ted.com With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT's Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets -- like the calls we make, the garbage we throw away -- to create surprising visualizations of city life. And he and his team create dazzling interactive environments from moving water and flying light, powered by simple gestures caught through sensors.

[@rr7firefly]

I remember when I was a child I learned about Biofeedback. It was an awakening experience, realizing that in some systems there is a continuous corrective capacity. This is cool -- let us always remember that Architecture is an art form that deals with aesthetic issues in a phenomenological context.

[@ChalleFoV3]

Great talk, but what made me return was his jacket. Does anyone know where I can get it?

[@nikicool23]

we have to start somewhere....it may be expensive at the moment....but things and theories develop....i think it might actually...be really...grt...to map the movement in the cities..it gives a grt scope for better urban planning and thoughtful designing...

[@jpmthemonk]

The London cloud looks like a really cool experience - inside and just as something to look up and see.

[@Jotto999]

I thought the water building thing was really neat, but having those pixels dancing around would be dazzling!

[@Icemario87]

I just noticed TED has a circle and a slash over a dollar sign at the end of their videos... awesome.

[@quantumdance662]

@JornikHendrix actually people just started to think in "pixels". And, in my opinion, that is the right way. Because everything IS in "pixels" - Atoms are pixels, molecules are, rocks, water drops, animals, humans, cars, buildings , etc... its just the matter of how close/far you are to an object to consider it a "pixel". When you see a person face to face you wont notice it, but as you move away, you will =)

[@Dixavd]

I live in the U.K. and whenever I put on the Local news (I am counted as within London even though I am not in the city itself) it talks about the Olympics and the projected buildings ect... being built and I have never heard of this - the closest I have heard of was the prototype sphere screens allowing anyone form any angle to see the same 2D image but this seems amazing I wonder if it is the built on version of that.

[@PsychedelikMonk]

@MrIbrahimO I was hoping he'd have an answer for that too! Especially since, having played with various sizes myself, I find the smaller they are, the slighter the breeze needed to knock them way off course. Not to mention the current average flight time v charge time... I'm a bit dubious.

[@elchafa337]

Wow the background is trippy

[@JornikHendrix]

@WokenOne That is quite right my virtual companion, we know that everything due to perspective from far away looks like a dot and that everything can be analysed in dots-pixels(pointillism, TV etc) but we live in 20freekin11 where we should be thinking even more advanced. our thoughts are dots but if we put them together we might get something extraordinary!!! Keep thinking creatively.

[@Talon3000]

That glowing cloud of pixels reminds me of the movie Megamind. That guy used something similar

[@Rubatacchini]

cool!!! ...I just hope that something like this will NOT be used to put adverts above our heads

[@jadedimp]

that is awesome.

[@Shaunt1]

Amazing technology!

[@TheEclecticFrog]

@Rubatacchini It will.

[@samsmd]

a very interesting presentation

[@JornikHendrix]

why do we still think in pixels??? Pretty cool stuff though. Architecture and interaction FTW!!!

[@EntinludeX]

@JunnyICurosi "Stand, would you kindly. Sit, would you kindly..."

[@1966human]

That car monitor is ridiculous - i mean honestly

[@txdmsk]

@Rubatacchini I'd rather have adverts above my head than before KZbin videos ^^

[@gulllars]

@rlclaveau it would be fun the first time, then annoying after a while, and then just ambient noise. Imagine having a group of hackers making a program to organize and co-ordinate 61445 of these helicopters into a 256*240 8-bit display (3 LEDs in R/G/B with 3 levles of brightness) +5 sound (4.1) and then proceeding to play NES on it in the sky over a public area unannounced... That would be so awesome.

[@laojace]

@JornikHendrix Small is the new big :D

[@suvantolas2608]

very incentive, somebody may think that they are doing something unrealistic, but gradually, the dawn of new possibility might have come.

[@mukeh111]

Concept is cool. but all I can think about is 3D ads.

[@RunSofrieRun]

where is the building? any pictures?

[@artifactingreality]

yes but... what the fuck does the proposed London Cloud actually do?

[@EllaABo]

I want this. :]

[@worshipcatalyst1]

I'm probably related to him. Nice.

[@jacoblarrinaga4910]

cool! though remember it's not what you have (or inherit through blood), it's what you do with it! hopefully we'll catch a TED Talk from you as well in the future

[@nesaprotu]

open your mind

[@AgrivatedKillah]

Anybody thinking about that Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode where Carl got his foot cut off by an advertisement? I'm kind of nervous lol jk.. but this is awesome.

[@Yaheuben66]

*sniff, sniff*-- I smell Project Blue Beam

[@TheGrapplingMonkey]

@GHortaV really really reeeeaallly good. I thought it is kind of stupid, but than i realized, I AM THE FIRST! So i did it anyway. Hope you´ll have the pleasure one day, too!

[@zanderzander05]

Is it just me or did he not mention a single original idea?

[@Ficktao]

Am I the only one who doesn't understand what the last project was all about?

[@laojace]

omg i want such my local mall to have such interactive doors.... and when it malfunctions. MUAHAHA GET WET PEOPLE :D

[@fragelme]

Future pollution of corporate visuals.

[@psyoptech]

While the idea is there for a better world, the millitary still uses most ideas for a reason that doesn't help the masses....

[@TheSpankymonkey]

@rlclaveau - People see what they want to see. ;-)

[@alexandreg1828]

He was talking about global warming like he was in 2021/22

[@brod2man]

so our phones are tracking our locations

[@mbs0202]

3:18

[@EntinludeX]

Awwww....

[@ridingboy]

Pixels? Sensors? Wow. This is so 90's. Nothing new.

[@Murakamizo]

wow, the animation of the dancer was so so woeful. I don't understand why some tech people like to show this disgusting low quality awkward body animations. The flying pixels are so marketing oriented, the cost is huge, a lot of energy wasted. why? they are showing 2D images with it, boring, 3D images are also boring. We don't need flying super expensive pixels, we need projects that could use sensible information about how to think and use energy on cities. Like the f1 but useful

[@JornikHendrix]

go pixels!

[@Vultcha_]

hmm.... the future fossils of holograms?

[@GHortaV]

@damuschka Wow! how does it feel to be the first one to type a comment on a video?? I've been wanting to do it for years! : /

[@D3mi4n]

Cellular Automata

[@t0yo]

Didn't know the ignorant "first" posting type of crowd actually watches TedTalks =/

[@EntinludeX]

tenth!

[@POLlyy23]

when italy cheated themselves to a world cup.

[@TheAussieSwim]

Italy got the the grand final because they cheated against Australia

[@Biathine]

sixth

[@bukon90]

fourth

[@TheGrapplingMonkey]

first

[@gailforce]

tedious.