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Itai Palti

Itai is a practicing architect, researcher, and multidisciplinary artist focusing on the relationship between people and place.

He is Director of Hume, a Science-Informed architecture and urban design practice.In 2015, Itai founded the Conscious Cities movement; a new field of research and practice for building environments that are aware and responsive, using data analysis, AI, tech, and science-informed design.

For his work in advancing changes in the design profession, he was named by Metropolis Magazine as one of 2020's 'Game Changers' in transformative ideas in Health, Social Justice, Technology, and Urbanism.

Itai is the Founder, past Director, and current Advisor to The Centre for Conscious Design. Carrying out thought leadership and advisory roles in a number of other research and policy bodies, Itai contributes to strategies that focus on systems change and the promotion of design as a socially conscious profession.

His work and writing has been featured internationally and he is a regular speaker at events focused on the built environment and human impact.

An Introduction to Conscious Cities, by Itai Palti
"To Shape and Be Shaped" - Written, directed and produced for Conscious Cities Festival 2020

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Interviews

Rebuilding Architecture: An Interview With Itai Palti
Blueprint Future
The Conscious City with Itai Palti
The Future City Podcasts
Interview: Itai Palti on the Conscious Cities Movement
The Possible
Game Changers 2020: Itai Palti and Liam Young on the Role of Tech in Creating Responsive Cities
Metropolis Magazine
Itai Palti: Architecture is to become an empathy-based profession
Venetian Letter

Talks, Videos,
Podcasts

What Counts? (The Hidden Value of Design)
Keynote at PLDC Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Science-Informed, and Conscious Design
AudaCities Humanity Design Summit
5 Words for the Future City
The City We Have in Mind, Milan, Italy
Design Minded limited series
Vox and KitchenAid, U.S.A.
AI, Empathy, and Architecture
ACM Conference, Rome, Italy
Nature and the City
The City We Have in Mind II, Milan, Italy
The Post-Pandemic City
House of Beautiful Business
Mass Transit and the Radius of Life
Moscow Urban Forum
About Cities and How They Influence Us
Next Vision Podcast

Coverage

Places where work and though leadership has been featured
Coronavirus: How can society thrive post-pandemic?
BBC
Can your city change your mind?
Curbed
How to design your home office for better focus
Google Arts & Culture
How to design a public play space where kids practice reading and STEM skills
The Conversation
Architecture and Neuroscience Collide to Design Conscious Cities
Pop-Up City
The conscious office: A manifesto for a workplace that truly understands its users
FRAME
Grey Fingers: Aging Singapore use Gardening to Fight Loneliness
Reuters
How To Spark Learning Everywhere Kids Go
KNPR
Rethinking the urban contract: A discussion
Salzburg Global Seminar
Tomorrow Living, a documentary by FRAME and Huawei Milan Aesthetic Research Center
Link to all episodes
Milan Design Week
Play in Early Childhood: The Role of Play in Any Setting
Harvard Centre on the Developing Child
Stress and Loneliness: Maintaining Mental Health in the City
MUF 2020

Writing

A selection of writing, editing, publishing, and book contributions
A Manifesto for Conscious Cities
The Guardian
Creativity will be the source of our next industrial revolution, not machines
Quartz
Introducing and sustaining learning landscapes in urban environments
Van Alen Report
Is mass transit a poisoned chalice? how transit systems may be damaging social wellbeing
Cities & Health
The healthcare community needs to champion healthy and sustainable urban living spaces
British Medical Journal
Science-Led surroundings will enhance tomorrow's productivity
The Future Laboratory
Where are cities leading us?
Conscious Cities Anthology
Cities in the Pandemic: What They Contribute and What We Miss
The CCD
Democratic Quicksand
The Jerusalem Post
Editing and Publishing
Book and Report Contributions
Designing Cultures of Care
Bloomsbury Academic
Venice Lab: Reconsidering St. Mark's Square
Marsilo Arte
How Design Can Enhance the Brain Health of a Rapidly Aging Population
HKS