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29/05/2026

The family is changing. So is the home.

Today, la Repubblica published an op-ed by Carlo Ratti exploring the ideas behind The Polyamorous Home, the special issue of Interni Magazine guest edited by Carlo this month.

The article argues that the traditional household is giving way to a more complex ecology of coexistence. Animals, machines, plants, microbes, and increasingly intelligent technologies are becoming part of everyday domestic life.

As the cast of inhabitants expands, architecture must adapt. The home is no longer a static container for human activity. It is becoming a living ecosystem, shaped by new relationships between human and non-human actors alike.

Under the direction of Gilda Bojardi, Interni has long explored how design and architecture respond to societal change. The Polyamorous Home extends that conversation into the domestic transformations unfolding today.

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18/05/2026

Meet the world's sexiest robot, as chosen by Cicciolina.

Somewhere between Persian cats, pet pythons, hybrid roses and humanoid fantasies, her Roman “Noah’s ark” becomes the setting for a conversation in Interni Magazine’s May issue, The Polyamorous Home, guest edited by Carlo Ratti.

In conversation with Carlo Antonelli, Cicciolina reflects on animals, freedom, desire, fantasy — and the increasingly blurry line between humans and machines.

"I am a little leaf: I go where the winds and whims take me."

On newsstands now.

15/05/2026

08/05/2026

It’s been a little over a week since Carlo Ratti joined Bloomberg Philanthropies and The Aspen Institute at Bloomberg CityLab 2026 in Madrid.

His talk, “The Future of Public Space: Refinding the Plaza,” explored how cities are changing as we move through them faster, linger less, and increasingly experience urban life through digital layers. AI gives us new tools to study these dynamics, but also new possibilities to redesign the public realm itself.

Thanks to everyone involved for the conversations and exchange across the summit.



Images courtesy of Bloomberg Philanthropies.

07/05/2026

Family, reassembled.

For Interni Magazines’s May issue, guest edited by Carlo Ratti, The Polyamorous Home reframes domestic space as shared and shifting.

With Antonio Marras, Family Portrait brings this into form — where garments, bodies, and machines coexist.

The old family is dead. What replaces it is already here.

Fashion Design and Styling: Antonio Marras
Photography: Andrea Pugiotto
Producer: Javier Madero
Editorial: Carlo Antonelli
Robotics Engineer: Dmytro Fursov
Dog Model: Dwight, with Laura Girardi
Human Model: Sahara Mignone
Producer: Javier Madero
Many thanks to Luca Cipelletti

06/05/2026

WELCOME TO THE POLYAMOROUS HOME

No more mom, dad, 2.5 kids and a golden retriever. The house is already occupied, bacteria in the fridge, plants pushing through walls, insects, animals, devices, things we invited and things we didn’t.

In Interni Magazine’s May issue, guest edited by Carlo Ratti, The Polyamorous Home names it for what it is, a pile up of bacteria, plants, insects, animals, people, and robots, all at once, crossing over, crowding in, and spilling across boundaries. The house reshaped by whoever shows up and sticks around.

Somewhere in there, sexy robots ranked by Cicciolina and pooch pads by Diane von Furstenberg.

Come inside, we’ve been waiting for you.

Images from Family Portrait, the editorial featured in Interni May 2026: The Polyamorous Home.

Fashion Design and Styling: Antonio Marras
Photography: Andrea Pugiotto
Robotics Engineer: Dmytro Fursov
Dog Model: Dwight, with Laura Girardi
Human Model: Sahara Mignone
Producer: Javier Madero

30/04/2026

What Happened to Hanging Out?

Bloomberg CityLab just wrapped in Madrid, and among speakers yesterday Carlo Ratti shared some startling data on why our streets feel so different lately.

According to MIT Senseable City Lab data, the social city is in a tailspin:

• Lingering is down: Only 26% of us stop to "hang out" in public (down from 43% in the 80s).
• We’re in a rush: Walking speeds have increased by 15%.
• We’re alone: Solo walking has spiked by 68%.

The takeaway? We need to move beyond optimizing for efficiency and use data as a tool for stewardship, redesigning the modern agora to protect our fragile social fabric before it thins out for good.

Read on Bloomberg below.

Many thanks to The Aspen Institute and Bloomberg Philanthropies

Speakers discussed topics from playgrounds to the night economy.

20/04/2026

Longer lives are quietly reshaping the city.

Retirement is becoming an active chapter of urban life rather than a departure from it, as Carlo Ratti writes in La Repubblica.

More time in the city changes how space is used. It stretches daily rhythms, mixes generations, and asks for places that support ongoing interaction—not just work routines.

Design, in this sense, has to follow life as it unfolds, not just organize it in advance.

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20/04/2026

Milan Design Week is full of new objects. This year, it might also be about new recipes.

In Il Sole24 Ore, Carlo Ratti reflects on what design can learn from cooking. The kitchen works through trial and adjustment. You work with what is available, you correct along the way, and the outcome is never entirely fixed.

Applied to architecture, this way of thinking suggests a more open approach.

Spaces can adapt, respond, and change over time instead of being locked into a single, final state.

There is a different attitude here. Design becomes something that develops through use and interaction.

In time for Milan Design Week, a simple prompt: how would our buildings look if they were shaped the way we prepare a meal?

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