【Subject】Digital Tools for Urban Transitions: Urban Data and Complexity
【Speaker】Dr. Deljana Iossifova, University of Manchester
【Time】15:30-17:00 am, April 11, 2017, Tuesday
【Place】Meeting Room 202, Phoenix Building
【Host】Department of Investment, School of Public Economics and Administration, SUFE
【Host Person】Professor Chen Jie, Dean of Investment Dept., SPEA
Ulysses Sengupta is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the founder of Complexity Planning and Urbanism (CPU), a research cluster and Masters atelier at the Manchester School of Architecture. CPU uses a complexity framework to develop new digital tools, computational thinking and urban theory addressing future ICT disruptions and spatio-temporal dynamics in urban processes. The research is transdisciplinary and spans Future Cities, Smart Cities, the Internet of Things, agile governance and cities as complex adaptive systems. CPU research engages with planning for evolutionary and emergent city systems, digital participation and inclusion, data platforms for resilient cities and urban simulations for sustainable future scenarios. Sengupta is Co-Investigator on the ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS). CPU and DACAS are part of ComplexUrban (www.complexurban.com)
Deljana Iossifova is Lecturer in Urban Studies at the University of Manchester. After graduating as an architect from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Iossifova led a number of award-winning master planning and architectural projects. She completed a PhD with focus on China’s urban transition at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and was a PhD Fellow at the United Nations University, Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), and research fellow at the University of Westminster. Currently, she leads the ESRC Strategic Network on Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS). Iossifova is a board member of the Urban Studies Foundation. She is lead editor of Defining the Urban (Routledge, 2017), guest editor of a special issue of the journal Cities on Urban Borderlands (Elsevier, 2013) and co-editor of Scarcity: Architecture in an age of depleting resources (Wiley, 2012). Her research is focused on urban transformations with a special interest East Asia.