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Surrogate modelling is the creation of simplified approximations of more complex, higher order models. This talk will cover the various surrogate modelling methods developed in Dr Evins’ research group.

ALEXANDER GIESCHE Schauspielhaus Zürich, in conversation with Tanja Saban, response by Gabrielle Schaad

Machine learning and generative AI has become a game-changer for solving design problems. Besides well-known applications like drug discovery, machine learning can also greatly enhance AI-assisted design in architecture, civil and mechanical engineering.

As you drive through the Gotthard massif, the landscape is constantly changing. You can see small villages along the way. Mountains and lakes characterize the panorama. What is particularly fascinating, however, is what lies beneath the Gotthard massif.

Empowering Change: Special ETH Global Lecture for International Women's Day 2024

CARSON CHAN AND MATTHEW WAGSTAFFE Emilio Ambasz Institute, MoMA, response by Lydia Xynogala

Prof. Dr Dirk Helbing will discuss and explore how decentralised solutions of self-​organisation helps to organise societies in a more resilient way. 

Representations and Learning in Computer Aided Design

THOMAS PETER ETH Zurich, response by Stefana Parascho

ETH Zurich hosts the Future Cities Laboratory Global Conference to share intermediate results of its ongoing research with a wider audience. The two-day conference features prominent keynote speakers and panel discussions, and an opportunity to interact directly with young researchers. A public exhibition showcases the results of the ongoing research activities. Bringing together science, design, engineering and governance, FCL Global actively promotes the development of more sustainable, resilient and inclusive cities, setting the stage for a more liveable urban future.

Following the global call for an ecological turn in art, architecture, and design, NTU CCA Ideas Fest III presents projects that engage, investigate, and aim to ensure food security on a healthy planet.

Building information is currently not treated as something valuable beyond its immediate scope of application. One of the reasons for this is the lack of a long term value proposition and/or clear pathways for generating revenue using building data. As a result, valuable building information is unavailable to interested individuals and data analytic companies. In order to monetise building data, it has to be first systematically generated or collected (e.g., during the construction phase of a building). Furthermore, building data must be maintained, curated and regularly updated to remain relevant and up-to-date as time passes. All this incurs costs and companies may not see the point of doing so beyond what is needed to achieve their immediate tasks at hand. Among other potential use-cases for building data assets, they may provide information about building components and their materials to entities that specialise in mining and recycling building materials, thus contributing to a circular building materials economy. Pathways for generating revenue would provide the necessary incentives to maintain and update data until the building is demolished (and possibly beyond). We believe that building data assets have a crucial role to play in the context of sustainable material flows in circular future cities. To this end we use tokenised data assets on a Blockchain as a tool to connect building owners with the consumers of building information, coordinate the activities of the built ecosystem and at the same time, maintain the economic incentives required to keep the wheels running

It is well known that the design of buildings and urban environments has a strong influence on our emotional state and experience. Urban places, in particular, are also typically experienced in various levels of human occupancy – depending on the time of day, places from main streets to parks, can be almost empty or bustling with pedestrians, patrons, residents and visitors. How does the presence of other people influence our subjective experience of places? Does the design of urban environments moderate the effects of social presence? Using multiple measurement of human emotions drawing from environmental psychology and neuroscience, we begin to understand how design and presence of people jointly modulate our experiences in cities. In this talk, I will present the conceptual background and findings from recent and ongoing work done as part of the FCL2 Cognition Perception and Behaviour in Urban Environments project and more recently the IntraCREATE SEED project ‘NICE’, and how this can contribute to the planning of future urban developments.

Liveable and Sustainable Cities: Emerging Stronger The biennial World Cities Summit (WCS) is an exclusive platform for government leaders and industry experts to address liveable and sustainable city challenges, share integrated urban solutions and forge new partnerships. Jointly organised by Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) and the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), key highlights of the Summit include the WCS Mayors Forum, the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize and the WCS Young Leaders Symposium.

The GEOSummit is and wants to continue to be an important networking event for the Swiss geo-sector, even under difficult conditions, and is intended to create added value for the participants in their everyday work.

The World Cities Summit is an exclusive platform for government leaders and industry experts to address liveable and sustainable city challenges, share integrated urban solutions and forge new partnerships. Since its inauguration in 2008, the biennial Summit has been attended by over 250 global cities and supported by leaders from government, business, international organisations and academia. Jointly organised by Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities and the Urban Redevelopment Authority, the World Cities Summit is held in conjunction with the Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) and the CleanEnviro Summit Singapore (CESG). Highlights of the Summit include the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize, the WCS Mayors Forum and City Solutions Singapore.