Events

There will be two talks during this seminar by speakers from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and University of Sussex. Refreshments will be provided, so do register!

As Asia experiences rapid urbanization – home to over half of the world’s megacities and projected to account for 40% of global smart city investment by 2025 – governments and businesses are increasingly turning to smart city solutions to manage growth. These technologies offer opportunities to improve urban services but also raise important  concerns, including

ISTD COIL Seminar – Learn to build, run, and deploy your applications anywhere using containers. Through the 2 guest lectures & online learning course, you will be able to explain the fundamentals of Docker and containerisation.

HASS Colloquium by Ryan Holroyd – This presentation will map the structure of Chinese maritime trade in Southeast Asia from about 1570, during the Ming dynasty. It will then compare this structure to the Chinese shipping network that was re-established after the Qing dynasty’s conquest of Taiwan and the legalisation of private maritime trade in 1684.

SUTD’s Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD) Pillar is proud to be part of Singapore Archifest 2025, Singapore’s annual architectural festival commissioned by the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA).

We celebrated our students’ success with our ISTD Student Merit Award Ceremony filled with applause and proud smiles.

Human-centered AI Series – This round table brings together experts in AI, urban studies, ethics, public policy, and design to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and ensure that future smart cities remain human-centered, inclusive, and sustainable.

This talk will identify trends in contemporary Muslim societies in Southeast Asia, focusing primarily on Indonesia and Malaysia. Drawing on two and a half decades of studying political Islam in the region, the talk will explore the prevailing schools of thought in the study of Islamism in the region and what scholars have identified as the “conservative turn” in Muslim socioreligious mobilization, examine these developments against larger transnational sources of Islamist activism, and discuss how and why these dynamics have resonated with and empowered political Islam in the region in the last four decades.

ISTD Seminar by Subhajit Datta – We live in an era of algorithms. Our digital footprints let algorithms decide which doors will open for us, both literally and figuratively.

ISTD Seminar by Subhajit Datta – Software systems are everywhere. Over the past few decades, we have increasingly come to depend on these systems for our needs.