Assoc. Prof. Miho Mazereeuw | Urban Risk Lab – Design Before Disaster In this talk, Miho Mazereeuw presents a design-led approach to resilience, drawing on projects from the MIT Urban Risk Lab and insights from her book Design Before Disaster. She explores how proactive, community-based design can reduce risk and strengthen adaptive capacity in vulnerable regions. The talk emphasizes community knowledge, human intelligence, and collective collaboration as central to climate action, framing...

Luca Bussolino | Carlo Ratti Associati Luca  Bussolino is a trained architect and licensed engineer who graduated with honors in Architecture from Politecnico di Torino and Politecnico di Milano in 2018. He also studied at ENSA La Villette in Paris and TU Delft, and holds a Diploma in Innovation Management from Alta Scuola Politecnica, specializing in design thinking and Industry 4.0. He joined Carlo Ratti Associati in 2018, becoming Head of Strategy and Innovation in 2022 and Partner in...

Cecilia MoSze Tham | Futurity Systems Cecilia Tham  is a Harvard-trained designer, futurist, and serial entrepreneur working at the intersection of technology, science, design, and entrepreneurship. She is the founder and CEO of Futurity Systems, a “futures-as-a-service” platform helping organizations build better futures collaboratively. A former Social Technologist at Alpha Telefónica, she has founded initiatives such as Makers of Barcelona, FabCafe, and all Women.tech. Cecilia has advised...