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Growing Fungi and Their Potential in the Built Environment

Read more Published 14. January 2025

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Still from eye tracking glasses within the IWSC experiment

Read more Published 14. January 2025

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Workshop with Astar

Read more Published 13. January 2025

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Power to the People

Who owns energy sources and governs the energy transition? How can people mobilize for alternatives to fossil dependencies? There is no better place to ask these questions in Germany than the Rheinisches Revier, the region around the surface mine Tagebau Hambach, where the advancing coal mines and the desire for cheap energy have shaped the territory for over a century. The region has recently emerged as one of the battlegrounds of the global climate struggle, culminating in the occupation and eviction of the hamlet of Lützerath in early 2023. The multinational energy corporation RWE (formerly the Rhein-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerke AG) governs all vital processes in the region, from geological structures to social realities and imaginaries, making it omnipresent in every aspect of life. Even as mining operations are being phased out in favor of renewable energy as part of Germany’s intended Kohleausstieg 2030, RWE remains in control of energy transition: in this corporate landscape, wind and solar parks are simply added to coal-fired power plants, based on the unchanged rationale of increasing profits that characterizes the extraction of coal. Fridays for Future, Alle Dörfer bleiben, and other activist and citizen organizations continue their struggle across the region, contesting the corporate greenwashing which deepens capital’s control of the land as well as perpetuates the interconnected crises of climate change, social polarization, cultural erasure, and ecological exhaustion. They demand not just an immediate exit from coal but also a democratically controlled and socially just transition to renewable energy. The world of ecological energy commons, democratically governed, can emerge. Power to the people!

Read more Published 13. January 2025

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Materials and components of various building systems in the Swiss building stock.

Read more Published 13. January 2025

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Selected spreads from the booK Dense and Green Urban Development, set for publication by Birkhäuser in Spring 2025.

Read more Published 13. January 2025

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Professor Rudi Stouffs has been elected as the President of The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) at the CAADRIA conference held at SUTD, Singapore. His term will span a period of two years, from 2024 to 2026.

Read more Published 12. January 2025

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Adaptive planning for EV fast charging infrastructure over multiple years under uncertainties

Read more Published 12. January 2025

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FCL official news

A better designed Singapore, from bicycle paths to sustainability

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.

Read more Published 03. August 2024

A better designed Singapore, from bicycle paths to sustainability

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Prof. Dr Stefanie Hellweg Receives SETAC Lifetime Achievement Award

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.

Read more Published 05. July 2024

Prof. Dr Stefanie Hellweg Receives SETAC Lifetime Achievement Award

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Dr Julio Paulos elected to the Swiss Young Academy

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

Read more Published 05. June 2024

Dr Julio Paulos elected to the Swiss Young Academy

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FCL Global meets Dr Alfonso Vegara in Zurich

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

Read more Published 21. May 2024

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Fewer utopias, more concrete solutions

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

Read more Published 03. May 2024

Fewer utopias, more concrete solutions

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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.

Read more Published 31. December 2023

Future cities, future ideas – A summary of the FCL Global Conference 2023

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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.

Read more Published 11. August 2023

Vertical Cities: Emergent movement and use patterns in dense vertically integrated urban spaces

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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.

Read more Published 01. August 2023

Network science-based analysis of urban green spaces in Singapore

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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.

Read more Published 08. May 2023

Not just a walk in the park

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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.

Read more Published 05. January 2023

Understanding mixed-use zoning types in Singapore through Google Maps data

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