Events

LKYCIC Seminar Series – Urban change in the next two decades in Singapore will be socio-spatial and multi-sourced as urban redevelopment will grow in scope and extent as the city’s built environment ages.

LKYCIC Seminar Series – As AI systems increasingly act as teammates rather than tools, understanding the human factors behind trust becomes essential.

Trending Thoughts Seminar Series – In this session, Karan Sinsinwar, Technical Director, Sustainability at AECOM Singapore, will examine how decarbonization strategies are evolving beyond conventional energy efficiency to embrace whole-life carbon thinking, digital innovation, and integrated design approaches.

LKYCIC Seminar Series – Cities are under growing pressure to become more sustainable and equitable as they face rapid urbanisation and climate change. While advances in urban sensing and volunteered geographic information are opening new doors for data-driven planning, most models remain fragmented and struggle to make sense of large-scale, diverse urban data.

LKYCIC Seminar Series – Singapore’s tropical equatorial context has enabled unique urban design approaches. This guest lecture invites everyone to understand how well-being in our city can be planned and designed for.

LKYCIC Seminar Series – Around 15,000 Malaysian students from Johor Bahru spend close to a third of their day crossing the Causeway every morning to attend local public schools in Singapore and making the same commute back home at the end of the day. Yet so little is known about their border commutes, and this talk is an effort to make legible the temporalities and spatialities of their lives in motion.

LKYCIC Seminar Series – As cities confront climate change, urbanisation, and environmental degradation, sustainable development is increasingly urgent. Landscape performance, which evaluates how outdoor spaces function socially, environmentally, and economically, offers a valuable framework for building resilient, equitable, and livable cities. Grounded in ecosystem services science, it enables planners, designers, and policymakers to make informed decisions based on measurable outcomes rather than aesthetics or tradition. This presentation examines three case studies from the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Case Study Investigation Program, where researchers, practitioners, users, and stakeholders assess long-term design impacts. Findings show how performance metrics inform planning—enhancing biodiversity, reducing runoff, and improving health and walkability—while also guiding integration into education and practice to promote environmental and community well-being.

Synopsis
Discussions on AI veer from comfort in its promises of abundance for all human lives, to discomfort that we will abandon all that makes us human.
In this talk, we unpack this polarisation. We start with

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

LKYCIC Seminar Series – This paper examines how people evaluate the creativity of AI-generated versus human-made artworks. Using commissioned works in three styles (charcoal animals, minimalist logos, and watercolor landscapes) researchers generated AI versions with Stable Diffusion. Participants rated each artwork’s creativity (0–10) and bid in auctions to assess monetary value. AI-generated landscapes were rated more creative and received higher bids. Creativity perceptions were influenced by detail, scene composition, and color use. Interestingly, visual errors did not reduce, and sometimes enhanced, creativity ratings. The study concludes that participants often preferred AI-generated art, particularly landscapes, due to their higher aesthetic appeal and creative presentation.