Events
Why Complexity Science is essential for the Understanding of how Cities work
Mr Peter Ho is the Senior Advisor to the Centre for Strategic Futures, Chairman of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore (URA), Chairman of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Chairman of the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) Governing Council, among many appointments.
What Doesn’t Break Us, Makes Us Stronger: Conflicts and Locus of Control
From the LKYCIC Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk series
This talk presents a study that investigated how conflicts affect individuals’ locus of control.
Book Launch of The City Rebooted: Networks, Connectivity and Place Identities in Singapore
LKYCIC is organizing the launch of the book “The City Rebooted: Networks, Connectivity and Place Identities in Singapore”, edited by Prof Chan Heng Chee, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Honorary Professor, Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC) and Dr Harvey Neo, Professorial Research Fellow, LKYCIC, SUTD.
Planning for Australian Cities: National Urban Policies and Future Challenges
This presentation briefly reviews the prospects for developing a national urban policy for Australia and outlines the contemporary challenges– demographic, social, environmental, economic and political – which face Australian cities in the post-Covid period.
Ideas Festival – Insights from the Humanities & Social Science: Double Seminar on “AI x Workers + Making Sense of the Future”
The Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities (LKYCIC) presents a double seminar featuring two presentations that shed light on interesting and highly pertinent topics of our times. Join us for an exciting and insightful session!
Human Smart Cities, Data Visualisation and Citizen Engagement
LKY CIC Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk – The abundance of data has promoted a technology-centric view of a Smart City. Human Smart Cities emphasise the role of citizens, their needs and a bottom-up approach to urban development and improving the quality of lives of citizens.
Promises and pitfalls of virtual nature on well-being and human-nature relations
LKY CIC Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk – Urbanization and digitalization have contributed to a physical and psychological disconnect between people and nature, which has detrimental consequences for the well-being of humans and the environment.
Urban Agetech: The Automated City as an Ageing-Friendly City?
LKY CIC Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk – Having ageing/age-friendly cities continues to be important, with people living longer and populations ageing. While an ageing/age-friendly city need not depend on automation, this talk discusses a vision of the “Automated City”, and explores how it might help enable an ageing/age-friendly city. Particular personas and examples involving urban robots will be discussed.
