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To facilitate interaction, collaboration, synergy, and exchange within the FCL Global ecosystem, which comprises internal members, entities, external partners, and stakeholders, we employ a platform model.
Read more Published 05. July 2024 (Updated 1 week ago)
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Prof. Dr Stefanie Hellweg, Future Cities Laboratory's PI for CFC, has been awarded the SETAC Europe Award for Lifetime Achievement in Life Cycle Assessment.
Read more Published 05. July 2024
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Dr Julio Paulos will serve a five-year term at the Swiss Young Academy, which gives a voice to young academics in Switzerland.
Read more Published 05. June 2024
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As part of the exhibition titled TIME SPACE EXISTENCE, organised by the European Cultural Centre (ECC), FCL Global presented the results of its research into the sustainable future development of cities.
Read more Published 28. May 2024
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FCL Global gave Dr Alfonso Vegara a tour of the Arch-Tech lab and introduced him to programme's research activities.
Read more Published 21. May 2024
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FCL Global Executive Director Prof. Sacha Menz and the programme were featured in NZZ’s biannual special issue.
Read more Published 03. May 2024
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Are you a practicing architect, policymaker, or urban planner? Take part in our 5 minute survey on how architectural cognition knowledge and tools can best be integrated into practice.
Read more Published 30. April 2024 (Updated 1 month ago)
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Find out about the three core research pillars that encompass our framework.
Read more Published 07. March 2024 (Updated 3 months ago)
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🚀 Exciting news 🚀 Our project vision just got a major upgrade! We're thrilled to announce revised motivation, goal, approach that will take us to even greater heights! Stay tuned for the journey ahead!
Read more Published 05. March 2024 (Updated 3 months ago)
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Meet the team based at ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Read more Published 05. March 2024 (Updated 5 days ago)
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WP1 has completed the empirical groundwork for our module by demonstrating how social spatial interaction is distributed in Singapore.
Read more Published 28. February 2024 (Updated 4 months ago)
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A newly published paper by Prof Dr Prateek Bansal on discrete choice experiments with eye-tracking: how far we have come and ways forward, is available in the Journal of Choice Modelling.
Read more Published 28. February 2024 (Updated 4 months ago)
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BIO's Exhibition table
Read more Published 28. February 2024 (Updated 1 month ago)
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Exhibition content of Dense and Green Cities displayed as an interactive table exhibit in ETH Zurich.
Read more Published 28. February 2024 (Updated 1 month ago)
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The document is a brief report on the event summarising the event details, attendees and content of the different sessions.
Read more Published 28. February 2024
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The EFF module will have the research overture on March 8th.
Read more Published 28. February 2024 (Updated 4 months ago)
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The exhibition held during Future Cities Laboratory Global Conference October 2023 hosted at ETH Zürich showcased the results of ongoing research activities across all modules. You can find our exhibit here.
Read more Published 28. February 2024 (Updated 1 month ago)
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Embark on a journey into the future of sustainable cities at the FCL Global Conference and Exhibition, hosted by ETH Zurich on October 12-13, 2023. Explore the exhibition content from Circular Future Cities on this page!
Read more Published 28. February 2024 (Updated 1 month ago)
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The exhibition held during Future Cities Laboratory Global Conference October 2023 hosted at ETH Zürich 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.
Read more Published 16. February 2024 (Updated 1 month ago)
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Meet the team based at the Singapore-ETH Centre.
Read more Published 29. January 2024 (Updated 5 days ago)
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Missed the conference? Access resources and recordings of keynote speakers and their insights in this summary.
Read more Published 31. December 2023
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Our proposed approach is, focusing on a topical coupling towards an integration of both evidence-based design and design-based evidence principles. Similar to Design and Science, the concept of Semantic Urban Elements is a process and the outcome of that process.
Read more Published 05. December 2023 (Updated 1 month ago)
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Clustering of urban functions can foster spatial interactions. We aim to develop a quantitative theory of urban design and study places of social gathering in Singapore and Zürich and derive the key planning and design attributes.
Read more Published 05. December 2023 (Updated 1 month ago)
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Cognitive science research methods, including behavioural experiments, psychophysiological measurements, eye-tracking and agent modelling, can provide valuable insights. They can inform designers in planning urban and architectural interventions to enhance the wellbeing and comfort of urban populations.
Read more Published 04. December 2023 (Updated 1 month ago)
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Our module aims to design landscapes for resilient and sustainable cities harnessing the potential of blue-green infrastructures. We use point-cloud models for the precise documentation of critical infrastructures like the complex irrigation and drainage systems of Antananarivo.
Read more Published 04. December 2023 (Updated 1 month ago)
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Drawing from case-study regions in Asia and Europe and specific sites within the Zurich region, the project aims at better understanding processes of extended urbanisation in agricultural territories.
Read more Published 04. December 2023 (Updated 1 month ago)
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We are investigating the various types of AGURA that are emerging in Monsoon Asia, where they are concentrated. We consider the potential of these areas to address the overarching challenges of urbanisation and agricultural intensification. We adopt the term ‘agropolitan’ to signal the ideal mix of conditions that would serve that goal.
Read more Published 04. December 2023 (Updated 1 month ago)
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The Sea-City Interface project focuses on mitigating climate impacts at the sea-city fringes in rapidly urbanising cities in tropical Asia.
Read more Published 01. December 2023 (Updated 1 month ago)
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CEC investigates relationships between urban patterns and urban functions in the domains of biodiversity, climate & energy, hydrology, socio-economics, and public health across cities.
Read more Published 01. December 2023 (Updated 1 month ago)
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The Adaptive Mobility, Infrastructure and Land-use module [AMIL], started in January 2023, envisions to improve infrastructure planning processes to better and faster meet the needs of stakeholders (e.g., carbon neutrality, 45-Minute City by 2050).
Read more Published 30. November 2023 (Updated 1 month ago)
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In nature, mycelium fosters organic matter decomposition and mushroom growth. In technology, it serves as an eco-friendly bio-binder for low-embodied-energy bio-composites. Its dual role as a binder and degrader in mycelium-bound composites (MBC) may enable a sustainable, resource-borrowing approach to circular construction.
Read more Published 30. November 2023 (Updated 1 month ago)
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Interdisciplinary research activities of the POW module spanning expertise from engineering to social sciences, from physics to economics, from Zurich to Singapore, for now and the future. The four major themes “Life Cycle”, “Energy Design”, “Mobility”, and “Socioeconomics” are respectively introduced on this exhibition stand.
Read more Published 30. November 2023 (Updated 1 month ago)
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Contemporary urban planning and design practice is increasingly exploring the development of sustainable integrated districts (SIDs) as a model for high-density high-liveability future cities. SIDs aim to fully realise the potential of urban innovations and systems solutions by deploying and integrating them at the district scale. Density and sustainability in SIDs are seen as mutually dependent and synergistic.
Read more Published 30. November 2023 (Updated 1 month ago)
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The need for decentralized information management practices to enable a circular economy is becoming increasingly evident. Building material stock is a crucial inventory of secondary resources which contain comprehensive information for analyzing the potential of material reuse and urban harvesting.
Read more Published 30. November 2023 (Updated 1 month ago)
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Future Cities Laboratory Global started in December 2020 with the unexpected challange to bring together in the middle of the COVID19 pandemic two research hubs separated by 13’000km, 13 different research modules with a variety of approaches, methods and case studies and a diverse community of researchers.
Read more Published 28. November 2023 (Updated 1 month ago)
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This FCL Global-led paper uses Kampung Admiralty as a case study to explore the user-space interactions in complex and vertically integrated urban built environments, for effective future planning and design.
Read more Published 11. August 2023
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