Architectural Cognition in Practice

- Lara delivered a talk titled 'Architectural experience as spatial and aesthetic processing in the brain' at the Place, Memory and Emotion Symposium within the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology conference held in Grenoble.

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

- Rohit Dubey and the Zurich team have submitted a paper titled "FAIRLANE: A Multi-Agent approach to priority lane management in diverse traffic composition" for review. You can find the preprint here (Link1) - Filip Biljecki is attending the conference 3D GeoInfo in Vigo, Spain

Dense and Green Cities

- Thomas has been appointed as a member of the DesignSingapore Council Methodology Advisory Panel for the Value of Design initiative. This panel is tasked with developing an impact framework to evaluate the role of design across various industries. Furthermore, the panel will supervise the extensive application of this framework to assess both past and current projects nationwide.

Adaptive Mobility, Land Use and Infrastructure

- AMIL organised the AI for Smart Mobility Symposium at the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) centre. The symposium attracted approximately 50 participants, including local stakeholders, industry partners, and researchers from local universities and institutes.

The Sea-​City Interface

- Shuyang collaborated with Wanyu kick off the DigitalFuture 2024 workshop. The worshop has 420 students from 130 universities in China and overseas.

Comparative Ecology of Cities

- Naika Meili has left the project and the hiring process for a new postdoc researcher is ongoing.

- The team has started the preparation work for design studios at NUS from Jan to June of 2025. We are assessing potential study sites in Hongkong and Melbourne. The main objective of the design studios is to test and assess the research findings in the five work packages. The upcoming postdoc researcher will coordinate the synthesis work between the five work packages.

- We submitted two research manuscripts, led by Dengkai Chi and Yue Zhu respectively.

- A manuscript titled "Quantification of tree effects on the energy demand for space cooling and dehumidification in cities across a humidity gradient: Inclusion of a building energy model into Urban Tethys-Chloris (UT&C-BEM)" is under internal review, led by Naika Meili.

Engagement Platform

FCL Global Views:

one month after the lounch of the new version of FCL Global Views and presentation to the module coordinators, the platform is getting populated: we have currently reached 21 uploaded datasets, from 4 different modules (CFC, DEN, POW, Engagement Platform), covering 3 locations (Zürich, SIngapore, Buenos Aires) and 1 global dataset. Uploaded datasets can be visulised here (link01), only by FCL members registered to the Engagement Platform. If you have spatial data that can be visualised on our platform, please get in contact with Nicolo in Zürich or Sean in Singapore.

Engagement Platform: Also the module space is getting busier with more and more content uploaded by each module. Check out the 14 module spaces here (link02).

Module Survey: The Engagement Platform team is currently updating the module survey for the current reporting period in order to better reflect the KPIs to be fulfilled by the end of the programme. The new survey will be online from the 10th of July.

Future Cities Laboratory Global

After a first successful series of Module Coordination Workshops on the four pillars of FCL Global (Science, Design, Engineering and Governance), we are now introducing a short series of workshops on AI. The first and introductory one is coming up on Wednesday the 10th of July.