Showcasing the visualisation tools on touch screens in the Value Lab Asia in Singapore (Photo: Future Cities Laboratory, 2013).
'Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen, have we got something to show you! Prepare to be impressed!' With a nice touch of showmanship, Ian Smith, Principal Investigator at the Future Cities Lab (FCL), was presenting the Simulation Platform Research Module. For me, it was one of my first real experiences of FCL. The occasion, rather improbably, was the mid-term review of Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), a research programme of the Singapore-ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability (SEC). We were standing in FCL's 'Value Lab Asia' in Singapore, which is dominated by a display screen taking up an entire wall and three smaller screens. An international evaluation committee was being shown some of the exciting simulation products developed during the first three years of research at SEC. The FCL programme, which commenced in 2010, is composed of ten research modules led by professors at ETH Zürich, and three assistant professorships. The overall goal is improving the sustainability of cities, and individual FCL projects cover topics as diverse as new building materials, digital fabrication, mobility and transportation planning, urban design, urban sociology and territorial planning.
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