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

Postdoctoral Researcher Kosuke Kuriyama, from Takenaka Corporation, will join SUE next month. HR is currently processing the required paperwork

Resource-Efficient Urban Intensification

A workshop with public agencies is held this Friday, 18th of October from 15:00-17:30 (SG) / 9:00-11:30 (ZRH). Venue: Foresight Room, Level 10, CREATE, UTown / Zoom Link: https://ethz.zoom.us/j/61066611168

Dense and Green Cities

• Thomas will be a speaker at the World Architecture Festival (WAF) 2024 themed “Tomorrow” that will take place in Singapore from 6 to 8 November. WAF is the world’s largest international architecture event, bringing together architects, designers, and industry leaders to showcase and celebrate the most innovative and impactful projects shaping the future of architecture and urban design. This year’s theme explores how architecture, urban design, and landscape will evolve in response to global trends, including population movement, city growth, digital technology, AI, immersive environments, and cultural change.
• Thomas was featured on Money FM 89.3 on 12 October, discussing the future of ‘Mamak (provision) shops’ in Singapore. In the segment, he shared his insights on how these shops reflect Singapore's heritage and community life, offering accessibility to the elderly and promoting a car-lite society in the context of modern urban development.

Circular Future Cities

Rudi Stouffs gave a presentation at the first meeting of the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) Singapore Forum, by invitation of SLA, MPA and OGC. He shared on Wanyu Pei's building material stock model research, among others.

Powering the City

• The CEA User meeting and the POW BIPV Symposium was held in Singapore on the 14th and 15th of October and it was a great success.
• Prof Sing Tien Foo has published an article in Business Times on District Cooling in Singapore. The article highlights how district and centralized cooling systems can reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions in Singapore’s buildings, supported by new government incentives for more sustainable cooling solutions. We hope that, at the next week’s BIPV symposium, we can discuss the increased acceptance of DC and how this could serve as a positive precedent spilling-over to the uptake of BIPV in Singapore.

Urban BioCycles Mycelium Digitalisation

ZURICH TEAM - (dbt) Digital Building Technologies and Tiziano Derme are teaching this semester a Fokus group course titled "Mycelium as building system". The course is offered as part of the AAA experiments at the Kunsthalle Zurich. AAA Experiments is an experimental exhibition developed in collaboration with students, researchers and professors of ETH Zurich, and curated by Daniel Baumann, director Kunsthalle Zürich, and Adrian Notz, former curator of the AI+Art programme at the ETH Zurich.

SINGAPORE TEAM - The SG team will be organizing a workshop titled, "Growing Fungi and their Potential in the Built Environment" at SEC next Thursday (24 October 2024) from 2-5pm. The workshop will include talks that introduces mycelium and its potential and challenges in the built environment. Participants will be invited to try their hands at making mycelium-bound composites and to brainstorm on possible applications for mycelium-bound composites. While the event is hybrid, participants are encourage to attend in-person and to register so that we can take into consideration the quantity of materials to prepare for the hands-on session.

Agropolitan Territories of Monsoon Asia

• PhD researcher FAN Lei and 4 other PhD Candidates from NUS Department of Architecture, Department of Cultural Studies in Communication and New Media, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, and Institute for International and Area Studies from Tsinghua University, submitted for a Panel Session, titled “Designing Global Asia: South, Space and Society” to Association of Asian Studies Conference 2025.
• The team had a meeting with (Institut Teknologi Sumatera) ITERA and a meeting with Resilience Development Initiative (RDI) to discuss possible collaboration for field work in Palembang, Indonesia.

Adaptive Mobility, Land Use and Infrastructure

• Dr Qiming Ye, Prof Dr Prateek Bansal, Prof Dr Bryan T Adey's new journal article 'Multi-period Charging Infrastructure Planning under Uncertainty: Challenges and Opportunities' has been accepted by the journal of Sustainable Cities and Society. This paper comprehensively reviews the state-of-the-art charging infrastructure location models regarding the problem formulation, planning models, objectives, case studies, solution algorithms, uncertain factors, transport model, travel demand estimation, the involvement of grid expansion and operations, and model representation of 11 uncertain factors. It also proposes a dynamic programming-based planning framework for solving the multi-phase charging infrastructure planning considering system stochasticity.
• The second phase of the social travel behaviour survey - island wise survey - has been launched. Zhuhan, Prof Dr Prateek Bansal were closely working with the survey firms.
• The module is in preparation for the AMIL-LAT-URA 2024 Nov workshop to be held at the LTA headquarter.

The Sea-​City Interface

• Jielin, Shuyang and Rudi have been invited to organize a workshop on AI for Design at Tongji University. The workshop will start next Wednesday and end two weeks later.
• Pengyuan give a presentation at NUS Cities Friday Brown Bags Talk session

Engagement Platform

• The team has made significant progresses on organising the infrastructure to store all the data produced by researchers in FCL Global. This a fundamental step to make sure that our data, information and knowledge is properly saved, organised and made available for the next phase of FCL. More information on this will be provided in the next EP training scheduled for the 30th of October. If you wish to attend and haven't received an invitation yet, please get in touch with Nicolò.
• Nicolò together with Julio have defined the last details of the Digital Double Symposium happening in Rome next week (see below for more details).

Future Cities Laboratory Global

• AD Research Julio Paulos recently met with the Dean of Sciences Po's Urban School, the Paris Institute of Political Studies, to explore overlapping interests and potential collaborations in urban governance research. Ranked among the top universities in political science, Sciences Po's expertise in urban governance makes it an ideal partner for developing future research initiatives.
  

• On the 24th and 25th of October, Nicolo Guariento and Julio Paulos of the Zurich Hub will be in Rome to co-organise and host a workshop on artificial intelligence and the city called Digital Double. The event is a collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for Art History, the University of Zurich and the Biblioteca Hertziana.