In this newly-released video, Carlo Ratti, founder of Carlo Ratti Associati, and BIG's Bjarke Ingels discuss their visions for the EuropaCity project, an experimental living lab which tests the impact of digital technologies on our urban life - just a stone throw's away from Paris. 

''What about using in your development to test some of this in order to let it evolve almost as if Living Lab -a place with sound of the future of can actually be invented. In this evolution, ı think we should also try to engage people, you know they should be like a collaborative effort. It should be a way all together we can come and decide on how these places living tomorrow will be?'' says Carlo Ratti.  

''A city is not just an accumulation of buildings, it is actually an entire man-made equal system where you design not just the flow of people to the streets but actually the flow of resources through the city. One of things that I quite unique with the project like EuropaCity is that we are creating something that is at the scale of neighborhood. In one holistic design, not it is gonna be  the same but we can also explore synergies so that the things that in normal city would be separate and have no possibility for synergy. We can actually tie them together creating an entire man-made equal system'' says Bjarke Ingels. 

EuropaCity by BIG. image courtesy of BIG.

An architect and engineer by training, Carlo practices in Italy and teaches at MIT, where he directs the Senseable City Lab. In 2011, Fast Company named him as one of the “50 Most Influential Designers in America” and Wired Magazine featured him in their “Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world”. Carlo's latest project is ’Mile’, The World’s Highest Vertical Park And Observation Deck for New York. 

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