Research
FCL Global is structured around 13 research modules investigating specific case studies in key geographical regions around the globe.
FCL Global is structured around 13 research modules investigating specific case studies in key geographical regions around the globe.
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Research modules at Future Cities Laboratory Global are organised and linked in four different clusters by virtue of complementary expertise, approach, or scale or research.
This cluster focuses on the improvement of material processes (digital fabrication, energy generation, building material reuse) involved in sustainable construction and habitation of high-density settlements at building and city-district scales.
This cluster focuses on the connective tissue of settlement systems (roads, rail, ports and airports, waterways) and their transformative effects on land use patterns, working at city-district, the sea-city interface, regional and transnational scales.
This cluster focuses on emergent edge-city and hinterland regions, to integrate food production, water management, ecosystem services, hybrid land uses and biodiversity in sustainable extended urbanisation.
This cluster focuses on the development of innovative cyber-physical design processes (cognitive, collaborative, participatory, digitally-enhanced) by which the forms, patterns and functions of settlement systems may be arranged in sustainable ways.
This cluster groups various software development efforts at FCL Global to create and maintain a suite of desktop applications, web services, software addons, plugins and processing pipelines. We aim to unify and merge the functionality of new and existing software into a universal frontend and standardized processing middleware to provide a complete, open-source platform.
Research modules at Future Cities Laboratory Global are organised and linked in four different clusters by virtue of complementary expertise, approach, or scale or research.
