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Re-designing cities of the future: World Cities Summit 2024
2-4 June | As official strategic partners of the World Cities Summit 2024, FCL Global and other SEC researchers will present their latest work at the summit.
Global Seminar | Surrogate modelling of building energy use
22 Apr | Dr Ralph Evins will speak on various methods of Surrogate Modelling - the creation of simplified approximations of more complex, higher-order models.
Research Overture | Resource-Efficient Urban Intensification
8 Mar | Introducing the Resource-Efficient Urban Intensification module, which focuses on socio-spatial interactions between individuals and population groups as a key aspect of urban vitality.
Future cities, future ideas – A summary of the FCL Global Conference 2023
Missed the conference? Access resources and recordings of keynote speakers and their insights in this summary.
FCL Global Exhibition at Hönggerberg
Campus
Until May 2024 | Currently being displayed, the 'Future Cities: Through Science. By Design. In Place. Over Time' exhibition highlights sustainable engagement and interdepencies.
FCL Global panel on 'Regenerative Cities' at the MND Urban Solutions & Sustainability R&D Congress 2023
Co-curated with the Centre for Liveable Cities, FCL Global will present a panel on 'Regenerative Cities - A Nature Positive Future' at the Congress on 5 October.
Global Seminar | Understanding future city visions: Mapping smart circularity & smart cultural mobility
13 Sep | Genki Unno will evaluate how the idea of the 'smart city' is implemented and discuss evaluative frameworks to perform a comparative analysis of multiple smart city projects from Europe and Asia.
Vertical Cities: Emergent movement and use patterns in dense vertically integrated urban spaces
This FCL Global-led paper uses Kampung Admiralty as a case study to explore the user-space interactions in complex and vertically integrated urban built environments, for effective future planning and design.
Network science-based analysis of urban green spaces in Singapore
Using Spatial Network Analysis, FCL Global researchers investigate the spatial configuration of urban green spaces on pedestrian movement at one-north Park and Jurong Lakeside Garden.
Global Seminar | Bringing SimCity to real-life: challenges in land use modeling applications
Research
7 Aug | Federico Javier Fernández from URBANLY will speak about the technical and methodological problems, and solutions, to deploying data processing, visualisation and algorithmic techniques for cities.
Global Seminar | The Circular Economy Potential Model (CEP)
21 Jun | Dr Benjamin Sanchez will describe the Circular Economy Potential Model (CEP), a moving towards a new paradigm for the urban harvesting of building materials.
Not just a walk in the park
Anjanaa Devi Srikanth of FCL Global uses Spatial Network Analysis and empirical pedestrian movement datasets to study pedestrian movement patterns in one-north Park in Singapore.
Global Seminar | Vehicle-to-Grid for car-sharing: Can shared EVs support the power grid in future cities?
29 Mar | Nina Wiedemann will share on the potential of 'Vehicle-to-Grid’ (V2G) in future car-sharing systems, in ways that will benefit both vehicle owners and the urban power grid.
Overcoming challenges for sustainable settlement systems
A partnership between science, design, engineering and governance can show the way for sustainable urban development of cities and beyond, said Prof. Sacha Menz.
Global Seminar | Designing with solar materials - From urban scale to modules
22 Feb | Maximilian Gester will present results of recent BIPV workshops in Zurich, his recent Master thesis on urban integrated PV, and ongoing research on feasible structures for PV in Zurich.
FCL Global at NTU CCA IdeasFest 2023: Food
16-19 Feb | FCL Global joins the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art to present workshops, ideas and perspectives on a more sustainable future for food.
Understanding mixed-use zoning types in Singapore through Google Maps data
FCL researchers publish a method to define representative archetypes of mixed use developments in Singapore, to improve the accuracy of urban data analyses and simulations.