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Powering the City: The Role of Building Integrated Photovoltaics
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.
'Participate with Data' workshop with FCL Global and Participate in Design (P!D)
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.
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.
Global Seminar | Utilising Machine Learning techniques in support of resilient urban planning
1 Feb | Dr Yue Zhu will look at novel algorithms and techniques for analysing publicly-available data sources to build the resilience and sustainability of urban environments.
Global Seminar | A comprehensive methodological framework to understand & manage the WEF nexus
29 Jan | Prof. Dr Paolo Burlando will detail a framework to integrate and analyse water, energy and food (WEF) resources of river systems in complex contexts.
FCL Global Exhibition at Hönggerberg
Society & Institution
Until May 2024 | Currently being displayed, the 'Future Cities: Through Science. By Design. In Place. Over Time' exhibition highlights sustainable engagement and interdepencies.
Global Seminar | Resilient, Regenerative, Responsive - Sponge cities in times of climate change
In this seminar, Herbert Dreiseitl will first give a hands-on introduction with real water experiments, a basic thought exercise to understand the elastic and regenerative nature of water, which he calls 'Fluid Thinking'.
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.
'Biofrontiers: The potential of fungal-based materials in architecture' symposium
9 Oct | This FCL Global-organised symposium brings together researchers from around the world to discuss how to develop, utilise, and assess mycelium-bound composite materials in building construction.
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.
Global Seminar | EcoRevolution: Unleashing the future of sustainable construction materials
11 Sep | Dr Nazanin Saeidi and Dr Alireza Javadian explore how mycelium- and bamboo-based composites, and circular construction methodologies, can lead to a more environmental responsibility and sustainable construction sector.
FCL Global to hold two-day conference on 12-13 October
Research
12-13 Oct | With keynote speakers, engaging presentations and a striking exhibition, the upcoming conference will present work completed during the first half of programme.
Global Seminar | Biomimicry for the Tropical Built Environment
Research
23 Aug | Dr. Anuj Jain will present a design guide for the adoption of nature-inspired innovation in the tropical built environment, for a transition towards sustainable architecture.
FCL Global Research Overture 9 | Adaptive Mobility
Research
16 Aug | This event introduces the Adaptive Mobility, Infrastructure, and Land Use (AMIL) Module at FCL Global, who develop adaptive plans to navigate uncertainties for long-term desirable outcomes for carbon neutrality.
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 | Timber Heritage
26 Jul | Ryusuke Kojio of the Takenaka Corporation will look at the use of timber in historical and modern architecture, and how it contributes to the sustainability and circularity of a carbon-neutral built environment.
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.
FCL Global at the Venice Biennal 2023
20 May-26 Nov | FCL Global will be presenting their research at the exhibition titled 'By Science. By Design. In Place. Over Time' at the Biennal.
Talk: Circular bio-economy in a changing environment
15 May | Visiting PI Prof. Dr Johan Six will give us an overview of the circular bio-economy and why it is relevant in the context of today’s society.
Global Seminar | The impact of road design on traffic safety
17 May | Prof. Dr Dorothea Schaffner will discuss psychological explanations of the impact of road design on perceptions and behaviour, drawing from VR studies, and suggest practical applications for daily life.
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.
Global Seminar | Tokenising building data assets on a Blockchain for the circular economy
31 Jan | Sarad Venugopalan will explain how to use tokenised data assets on a blockchain to gather building information and coordinate the built ecosystem.
Global Seminar | Forecasting district-wide pedestrian volumes
19 Oct | This talk discusses different metrics and methods to predict pedestrian volumes in complex multilevel environments, to enable better transport planning, in Singapore.
Global Seminar | How urban design can influence walkability: A virtual reality experiment
31 Aug | Do attractive environmental features increase walkability in urban areas? Heidi Silvennoinen outlines the implications of her virtual reality experiment on urban planning and design.
Global Seminar | CKG: bridging human and artificial intelligence to support synthesis in city planning
17 Aug | Pieter Herthogs will present the Cities Knowledge Graph (CKG) project and elaborate on the importance of formal Knowledge Representation in digital planning.
"Hello. I am a black soldier fly and I am transforming the global food system".
24 Aug | SEC & NUS Researchers will present on the NRF-funded project 'Using black soldier flies in food waste management and sustainable food production in urban systems'.
Global Seminar | Data-driven urban science for Photovoltaics in Cities
27 May | FCL Global resesarchers will analyse and present a data-driven model to examine the impact of urban design decisions on solar energy provision in real-time.
Equatorial Utopia: 50 years’ Visionary Architecture in Singapore
26 Apr - 12 Jun | Co-curated with FCL Global's Dense and Green Cities, the Equatorial Utopia exhibition in Geneva will showcase developments in the built and plant environment in Singapore.
Global Seminar | Why a ‘smart city’ is more than 5G and AI
23 Feb | Calum Handforth on redefining a truly 'smart' city as one based on the innovation, collaboration and aspirations of its population
Research Overture 7: Resilient Blue-Green Infrastructures
16 Feb | Researchers from FCL Global present a new approach to design and plan functioning blue and green infrastructures
Research Overture 6: Extended Urbanisation in Agricultural Territories
15 Dec | Researchers of the New Urban Agendas under Planetary Urbanisation module will speak on design strategies and issues of urbanisation in agricultural territories.
Global Seminar | Games and participatory modelling for urban planning
8 Dec | Dr Nicolas Salliou presents the use of games in exploring urban transformation pathways, and the possibilities of games for change in sustainable development. Recording available now.
Research Overture 5: Mycelium Digitalisation
3 Nov | Co-Investigators of the Urban Biocycles Mycelium Digitalisation research module will present how fungi-based materials can be digitally fabricated for sustainable construction.
The future of civic landscapes
Dr Matthew Skjonsberg pointed to the future of settlement systems through the lens of history in a keynote presentation to Swiss civic organisations at Gësprache am Fluss.
Global Seminar | Powering Digital Urban Twins
6 Oct | Dr Heiko Aydt will elaborate on the Simulation-as-a-Service (SaaS) approach and its potential to enable the use of digital urban twins in ways not currently possible.
Research Overture 4: Dense and Green Cities
29 Sep | Prof. Sacha Menz and Prof. Dr Thomas Schröpfer from FCL Global present on the research and design of sustainable integrated districts (SIDs) as a model for future cities.
Research Overture 3: Circular Future Cities
8 Sep | Asst. Prof. Daniel Hall and Dr Pieter Herthogs from FCL Global discuss systemic innovations that support circular economy concepts in the construction sector.
Research Overture: Powering the City
30 Jun | How can building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) help us transition towards renewable energysystems to power future low-carbon cities?
Research Overture: Agropolitan Territories
2 Jun | The seminar introduces FCL's research on urbanisation and food production in Monsoon Asia, with an "agropolitan" outlook to urbanisation based on the relationship between future cities and future agriculture.
Planning built environments for change
26 Mar | Dr Pieter Herthogs will speak about the concepts, approaches and digital tools in planning a more adaptive built environment, as part of the URA's Design and Planning Lab talks.
FCL Global launch event
What are the challenges that FCL Global seek to tackle and what is our approach? Hear from the directors of FCL Global and our partner institutions at the onilne launch event.
Urban Design and the Technological Shift in Transportation
How can urban design steer the impact of technological disruptions in the transport sector? View the recorded webinar by Tanvi Maheshwari, Prof. Stephen Marshall and Prof. Kay W. Axhausen.
Dense+Green Cities exhibition
29 Aug 20 - 16 Feb 21 | Dense and Green Cities will be part of the Open Space exhibition in Venice, presenting the interaction between buildings and the city as an ecological system.
VR in research on cycling infrastructure
3 June | This webinar by Mohsen Nazemi introduces virtual reality (VR) as a method in research on cycling and discusses the application of PTV Vissim in creating 360-degree environments.
Ecosystem Services in Urban Landscapes
29 Jun | How can tropical cities maximise the benefits from nature? Explore how urban ecosystem services can improve cities and how this can be applied in design through this webinar.
Dense+Green Cities webinar
The Dense+Green Cities webinar is now available for viewing. The webinar was held in conjunction with the exhibition by the Dense and Green Building Typologies team at FCL.
Moving towards low-carbon cities
26 Mar | Multi-Scale Energy Systems for Low-Carbon Cities (MUSES) will present findings on the interactions between urban and energy systems design and going low-carbon at this webinar.
Designing better monitoring systems
18 Mar | How can existing civil infrastructure be better managed? This lunch talk will discuss how quantitative methods can be used to improve the design of monitoring systems to better manage civil infrastructure.
Spatial Planning in Switzerland
5 Feb | How successful has spatial planning been in Switzerland? This lunch talk will discuss the achievements, lessons learnt and challenges of spatial planning in Switzerland.
Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture
Dec - Mar | The Future Cities Laboratory presents a series of digital research tools at the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture 2019.
Grand Projet book presentation
16 Dec | Join Prof. em. Kees Christiaanse and Dr Naomi Hanakata at the book presentation, followed by a discussion with Prof. em. Dieter Läpple and Prof. Bruns-Berentelg from the HafenCity University Hamburg.
Decarbonizing Energy Systems
27 Nov | How can local energy systems be operated CO2-free? Prof. Matthias Sulzer will present the Energy Hub approach, which allows regionally specific solutions to be designed at different scales.
Game.UP – Gamification in Urban Planning
20 Nov | How can elements of game design be used in urban planning communication? This lunch talk will discuss the communication challenges within public participation between stakeholders.
Decarbonising the Energy Sector Roundtable
3 Dec | How can concepts and strategies for zero carbon cities and communities, circular economy, and urban planning transform today's cities into carbon-free cities? Join us at the roundtable on 3 December.