Semantic Urban Elements: Linking Urban Analytics, Design, and Usage for Cyber-Physical Cities

- "Global Streetscapes – Benchmarking computer vision models for urban science and analytics" was selected for oral presentation and poster exhibition at the Science of Cities Symposium, World Cities Summit 2024 (WCS)

Dense and Green Cities

- The paper titled “Effects of the interplay between topology and function of an integrated urban development on patterns of user movement”, co-authored by Thomas, Sri, Daniel (FCL /SUTD) et al. (Roland (Univ of Geneva), Ajay (Univ of Ottawa), and Benny (NUS)), has been accepted for publication in Nature Scientific Reports. We will share the link once the article is published.

- DEN submission “Elevating Urban Ecology: Assessing the Connectivity of Skyrise Greenery in Singapore” was selected for oral presentation and poster exhibition at the Science of Cities Symposium, World Cities Summit 2024 (WCS).

- Thomas presented our work on DEN to a high-ranking delegation from Lichtenstein together with a representative from the Singapore Ministry of Communications and Information.

- Thomas has been invited as a juror to this year’s DesignEducates Awards. Other jurors include Toyo Ito, Benedetta Tagliabue, Kerstin Thompson, Reiner Mahlamäki, Zhang Ke and David Basulto from ArchDaily.

- Sri has been invited as a juror to this year's Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects Design Awards 2024.

- Sri gave a seminar talk on DEN research at the ChinaGSD X ETH FCL X MIT

- Design & Technology 2024 Spring Seminar Series on 21 March. This is an outreach initiative between FCL Global and GSD to engage the FCL Global research with the architecture studio in GSD. The first virtual seminar was very well received and we will continue with the follow-up talks in the coming weeks.

- Sri gave a lecture on the Economic Sustainability of Skyrise Greenery at NUS on 19 March 2024 to architecture students from ISD / MAUD / MLA / MBSc as part of the Biodiversity and Sustainability module. - Research work is progressing well. The SG team has completed the documentation of Singapore case studies and is working now on the international cases.

Powering the City

- Alina Galimshina published a paper in Nature Communications on Robust Retrofitting in Switzerland, based on work of her PhD. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46305-9

- Justin McCarty submitted a paper to a special issue in Renewable Energy. The paper is on high resolution PV modelling under partial shading conditions in urban environments

Agropolitan Territories of Monsoon Asia

We submitted a proposal to the Design Singapore Council to showcase urscape during Singapore Design Week. If accepted, we will be holding one of the workshops at Value Lab in September.

Adaptive Mobility, Land Use and Infrastructure

- PhD student, Jin Run Yap, has an abstract been accepted by the 2024 International Conference on Resilient Systems (ICRS). The title for the accepted abstract is ‘Adaptive Planning for Urban Resilience: Navigating Car-lite Transitions’. The conference will be held in Singapore from 28-30 Aug, 2024. (Link 1)

- A paper, with Prof Bryan Adey and Orlando Roman been co-authored, was accepted by the journal of infrastructure asset, paper title: Evaluating Intelligent Transport Systems for multiple stakeholders and considering future uncertainty: A simulation-based cost-benefit analysis of responsive gateways at the London Bridge Station (Link 2)

- Qiming Ye gave a presentation of using AI technologies to facilitate infrastructure adaptive planning, on the 9th International young scholar forum of Tongji University on Wednesday.

- The whole module is preparing the AMIL spring workshop with LTA and URA on Mar 27th.

- Research activities proceed well, with health track for each division.

The Sea-​City Interface

PhD student, Shuyang Li, submitted two abstracts to the The 6th International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2024).

Engagement Platform

SG: User research Initiative: The intent of this inittiative is to validate the hypothesis of the goals and user journeys of the stakeholders of the EP and the extent to which the EP met their objectives. Interviews were conducted with various stakeholders across Singapore and Zurich, and market research and analytics data was combined to provide a hoslitic view. These findings will be shared and discussed in a workshop involving the EP Team and ADs Research.

Test automation Initiative: The intent to enhance the software quality by automating testing of core functionalities of the EP before each release. Test automation scripting has been developed to automate the testing of registration, login, module space and newsletters.

Future Cities Laboratory Global

Next week, FCL Global, together with More-Than-Human Cinema, LUS and IRL, will be hosting a film screening evening at L200, a unique venue on the bustling Langstrasse, considered by many to be the heart of Zurich.

The three short documentary films have a unique cinematic signature. They look at how natural resources and infrastructure are the building blocks of the world we live in. All have Singapore as their context.

Come along and enjoy a nice atmosphere, drinks, appetizers and spend some time with your FCL colleagues.