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

> Matias Quintana and NUS PI Filip Biljecki gave presentations at the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, and the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University.

> Matias Quintana gave a guest lecture at the School of Architecture at Tianjin University.

> The paper "Global urban visual perception varies across demographics and personalities" led by Matias Quintana and co-authored with Filip Biljecki, has been published in Nature Cities: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-025-00330-x

Circular Future Cities

A journal paper “From lifecycle material tracking to urban-scale material stock modeling: A tool for building material assessment from low-LOD BIM models” authored by Wanyu Pei, Xinzhe Wang, Philip F. Yuan, Rudi Stouffs is published by Resources, Conservation and Recycling. The paper can be accessed through: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2025.108659

Urban BioCycles Mycelium Digitalisation

- We have contributed signages made using mycelium-based composites to the upcoming APRU Food Security and Agritech Symposium 2025 that will be held at CREATE from 2 - 4 November 2025. We will also be exhibiting some of our existing work at the symposium as well. Link to APRU Food Secutiry and Agritech Symposium 2025: https://www.apru.org/event/apru-food-security-and-agritech-conference-2025/

- We will be presenting a poster and showcasing samples in the upcoming Singapore Centre for 3D Printing (SC3DP) open house that will be held on 7 November 2025 at The Arc, NTU, Singapore. Link to SC3DP Open House: https://namic.sg/events/sc3dp-open-house-2025/

The Sea-​City Interface

The paper "A Category-Theoretic Formalism for Architectural Design Generation: A Parametric Modelling Demonstration" authored by Anders Ang, Jielin Chen and Rudi Stouffs, has been published in the book Formal Methods in Architecture: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Formal Methods in Architecture (7FMA), Porto 2024 (eds. B. Marques, C. Ruivo, D.L. Viana, J.V. Vaz), Springer