Dear FCL Global Community,
August 9 marks National Day here in Singapore, with the SG60 celebrations marking this incredible milestone in Singapore's nation-building journey. We wish all our researchers and friends in Singapore a restful holiday.
In the coming week, Joshua Vargas, Denise Lee, and Evi Syariffudin from the [AGR] Agropolitan Territories of Monsoon Asia module, as well as Ayu Sukma Adelia and Minn Lin Wong from Cooling Singapore, will be heading to Kuala Lumpur for the ASEAN Sustainable Urbanisation Forum (ASUF). We will be conducting a new iteration of the Participate with Data workshop series, this time targeting local government leaders and urban planning practitioners from across the Southeast Asian region. We will be exploring how interactive data visualisation tools like ur-scape can facilitate participatory design workflows in diverse Southeast Asian contexts, harnessing data across scales to paint a holistic picture of multifaceted climate risks and potentials in our region.
Participants will use ur-scape to interactively visualise diverse data sources and formats, regardless of their skill level and existing familiarity with GIS tools. Through ur-scape, they are also able to interact with simulation results from Cooling Singapore and cross-reference them with other data sources. We also aim to use insights from this workshop to inform our ongoing research in data-driven participatory planning workflows as well as on interaction design for urban and climate planning support tools.
In addition, Evi Syariffudin, Module Coordinator of AGR, will deliver a keynote speech at a special session on Digital Transformation and Innovative Cities. She has reached out to several FCL modules and intra-CREATE projects — including Adaptive Mobility, Circular Future Cities, Cooling Singapore, Dense and Green Cities, Digital Underground, Semantic Urban Elements, and Urban Biocycles — to showcase their relevant projects.
Many thanks to the module coordinators and researchers who have contributed valuable input, including Ivan Beliaev, Chenyi Cai, Srilalitha Gopalakrishnan, Jonas Joerin, Matias Quintana, Goran Sibenik, Adelia Ayu Sukma, Jia Heng Teo, Minn Lin Wong, and Qiming Ye.
The ASEAN Sustainable Urbanisation Forum (ASUF) 2025 will be held on August 10-15 in Kuala Lumpur, organised by KPKT (Ministry of Housing and Local Government Malaysia) and URBANICE MALAYSIA and co-organised by the ASEAN Secretariat, UCLG ASPAC, and UN Habitat. We are thrilled to use this opportunity to build on our previous work, including ur-scape’s co-development with cities across Asia and Cooling Singapore’s strong history of multiscalar climate modelling work in Singapore, to scale techniques created at FCL Global, meeting the demands of real-world workflows in diverse urban systems.
We’re excited to represent FCL Global in KL next week, but more importantly we also can’t wait to bring back lessons from this opportunity to strengthen the interface between science and policy in our research projects.
Have a great weekend ahead,
FCL Global ASUF 2025 representatives
