- AURELVR
- DESIGN
- RESEARCH
- TEACHING
SEMANTIC URBAN ELEMENTS
Cities are becoming increasingly dynamic and complex systems - constantly changeable in form, technology and everyday life. Yet, current practices of planning and urban design remain rigid structures of review and adjustment, and are misaligned to the emerging virtualisation of the city which is permanently in flux. The emergence of knowledge graphs, artificial intelligence (AI) and the possibility of perpetually adjustable parameters demands that a new kind of planning be developed. The project asks how semantic technologies can be harnessed for urban design and planning for1) evidence-based knowledge formation;2) real-time computation; and3) new tools for collaboration and interaction, design space exploration, scenario development, and governance systems.