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FCL Global Singapore hub welcomed a delegation from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) Department of Landscape Planning and Design, Poland.

Launch of ‘Urban Ecological Corridors’ research project

FCL Global Director Prof Dr Thomas Schroepfer and Associate Director (Research) Dr Srilalitha Gopalakrishnan will be part of the lecture “Building Breathable Cities,” hosted by the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.

15 Oct | Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) Global will hold talks, roundtables and exhibitions to discuss the role of Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) in the city.  

26 Sep/ 2 Oct | FCL Global will be conducting a workshop with P!D at the Singapore Design Week 2024, covering methods for evidence-based strategic planning to enhance community engagement.

A Business Insider story on Singapore quotes Prof. Dr Thomas Schroepfer, Director, FCL Global, on improving the city with bicycle paths and future-proofing Singapore from future challenges.

Dr Julio Paulos will serve a five-year term at the Swiss Young Academy, which gives a voice to young academics in Switzerland.  

FCL Global gave Dr Alfonso Vegara a tour of the Arch-Tech lab and introduced him to programme's research activities.

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.

22 Apr | Dr Ralph Evins will speak on various methods of Surrogate Modelling - the creation of simplified approximations of more complex, higher-order models.

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.  

Missed the conference? Access resources and recordings of keynote speakers and their insights in this summary.

Until May 2024 | Currently being displayed, the 'Future Cities: Through Science. By Design. In Place. Over Time' exhibition highlights sustainable engagement and interdepencies.

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.  

A partnership between science, design, engineering and governance can show the way for sustainable urban development of cities and beyond, said Prof. Sacha Menz.

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.  

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.

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.