Carlo Ratti is an architect, professor, inventor, entrepreneur, and the director of MIT’s Senseable City Lab, so he looks at the world through multiple lenses. For the MEET Digital Culture Center near one of the historic gates of Milan, he applied thinking from a variety of disciplines to the challenge of creating a physical space for people curious about the virtual realm. “I’m interested in the convergence of the digital and the physical, the artificial and the natural,” says Ratti.