One of the main notions that in the last five editions we have underlined with a lot of emphasis is the contrast in between the particularities of each bit and the common background that all of them share.

As it is explained in those introductory texts, this common background is understood as an “ideological or transversal vector“, which gives a direction to the ensemble, even if each one of its units is coming from different institutions from all over the world.

Methaphors referring to relieves, sequences or enclaves have been used in order to communicate this idea with all the richness that it embraces.

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Carlo F. Ratti (born 1971 in Turin, Italy) is an Italian architect, engineer, inventor, educator and activist founder of Carlo Ratti Associati and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he directs the MIT Senseable City Lab.

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IAAC is an international centre for Education, Fabrication and Research dedicated to the development of architecture capable of meeting the worldwide challenges in constructing 21st-century habitability.

IAAC is an international centre for Education, Fabrication and Research dedicated to the development of architecture capable of meeting the worldwide challenges in constructing 21st-century habitability.