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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.

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.

Prof. Dr Stefanie Hellweg, Future Cities Laboratory's PI for CFC, has been awarded the SETAC Europe Award for Lifetime Achievement in Life Cycle Assessment.

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.

FCL Global Executive Director Prof. Sacha Menz and the programme were featured in NZZ’s biannual special issue.  

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

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.

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.

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.

The Dense and Green Cities module from FCL Global won two awards at the Singapore Landscape Architecture Awards for their research into urban environments.

Adrian Fuhrmann of the SEC was recognised with the SFIAR Award for his previous work on the residues from black soldier fly rearing.

Using sensors, the Dense and Green Cities team from FCL Gobal studies the connectivity and socio-spatial performance of the Jurong Gateway District

Hot off the press: a new book co-edited by FCL Global PI Asst Prof. Dr Naomi Hanakata examines the urban and social changes caused by mega-events.  

22 May - 21 Nov | The Equatorial Utopia exhibition by Future Cities Laboratory will portray how architecture and urban design in Singapore have been tempered, adapted, and transformed by socio-cultural, economic, climatic, and political conditions.

The FCL Global team from ETH Zurich articulates the global vision beyond its hubs in Zurich and Singapore and explains how its research is geared towards global challenges.

VR allows one to “experience” future cycling infrastructure and provides important insights in planning. Building the 3D model to enable this experience is now faster with the Velosimulator 2.0.

Prof. Thomas Schroepfer provides a brief overview of the Dense and Green research approach, the various dimensions covered in the book and a short summary of the main research findings in an essay on Paysage.

Researchers from the Future Cities Laboratory investigate the relationships between urban forms and ecosystem services in the tropical city of Singapore and temperate city of Zurich.

How should public facilities be designed in the post COVID-19 era? Miya Irawati shared on redesigning public spaces for the new normal at two public webinars in June.

FCL has been working with the Asian Development Bank and the city of Makassar in Indonesia to answer urgent questions about how Covid-19 interacts with cities and to support pandemic management.

How are Indonesian smart cities tackling COVID-19? Dr Devisari Tunas and Dr Fabien Clavier from FCL illustrate how technology, governance, and partnerships are key to tackle COVID-19.

Eduardo Gomes, Asst Prof (Adj) Markus Schlaepfer and co-​authors describe how stakeholders can directly be engaged in the modelling and simulation process of future land developments.

How can we evaluate the quality of public space quantitatively? Researchers from FCL and FRS introduce the Public Space Quality Index (PSQI), a framework to measure public space quality.

What are the relationships between the age, sex, and income of city dwellers and their interaction with nature? Researchers from FCL investigate demographic biases in nature engagement in Singapore.

Are smart cities simple end-to-end technology adoption projects? Researchers from "Translating Smart Cities and Urban Governance in ASEAN" argue that smart cities are instead embedded in local policy processes.

How does the cooling effect of urban areas vary with the usage of different vegetation types? Dr Daniel Richards and co-authors investigate more in the paper published in Urban Forestry and Urban Greening.

Postdoctoral researcher Dr Muhammad Omer Mughal has been awarded the S.W. Tromp Award for the best Oral Presentation at the Symposium for Challenges in Applied Human Biometeorology.

How can we design signage systems in complex buildings more efficiently? Rohit K. Dubey and co-authors developed the design tool, AUTOSIGN and published their work in Computer & Graphics .

How can the public be involved in designing urban areas? The Urban Redevelopment Authority’s (URA) Skyline Issue features ETH's Quick Urban Analysis Kit (QUA-Kit),which enables the public to share ideas.

How can a house be configured according to the resource consumption patterns of its residents? Learn more about phase two of the expandable house by the Urban Rural Systems team in ArchDaily.

Can data from social media help us understand how different groups of people enjoy outdoor recreation and interact with nature within cities?

How can information theory help us to design signage systems to improve wayfinding performance and user experience? Find out in the paper by Rohit Dubey and co-authors published in Cognitive Computation.

FCL researchers facilitated a workshop on governance and systems thinking for Southeast Asian and South Asian participants in a training organised by CLC and JICA.

MATSim Singapore, developed by the FCL Engaging Mobility team, is presented as a useful tool to study large-scale mobility patterns and improve policymaking in the book Navigating a Complex World.