Events
Launch Event: Building Responsible Smart Cities
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 Trending Thoughts “Islam, Politics, and Society in Southeast Asia”
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.
LKYCIC Seminar Series: “Quantifying Uncertainty in Climate Science: Towards More Reliable Inference”
How can we make better decisions in climate-sensitive domains like health and urban design, when the data we rely on is noisy and uncertain?
LKYCIC Seminar Series: “From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft: New trends of urban governance transformation in post-pandemic China”
The global financial crisis started a new context of late capitalism and austerity urbanism. Instead of a unidirectional governance transformation towards entrepreneurialism, rising finance and financialization, pervasive state roles in state capitalism, and post-growth municipal radicalism are competing trends.
LKYCIC Seminar Series: “Strata Malls: Rejuvenating Everyday Heritage from the Building to the Precinct”
Do ageing strata malls deserve a second life? Can its rejuvenation have an impact on the surrounding precinct or its spirit live on even when it gets demolished?
LKYCIC Seminar Series: “Reciprocal Mind–Environment Construction In The Human Neurodevelopmental Niche”
In real behavioural ecologies, adaptive learning requires simultaneous exploration of both motor control (“policy”) and environmental task structure (“world model”), each posing its own form of search complexity.
[2 CPD Points] LKYCIC Trending Thoughts “The Evolving Landscape of Community Spaces in Singapore”
Synopsis
As Singapore’s urban fabric continues to evolve, community spaces play an increasingly pivotal role in fostering social integration, inclusivity and wellbeing. This presentation examines the transformation of these spaces in Singapore, illustrating how the synthesis of design, context and programmatic offerings, combined with engaged citizenry, contribute to building social capital. Through case studies such as
LKYCIC Seminar Series: “Light Field Modelling and Applications in Complex Urban Scenarios”
Synopsis
Growing concerns on climate change are driving emerging exploration of renewable energy transition, and it has been acknowledged that effectively penetrating renewable energy into urban systems plays a key role in facilitating this transition process. However, the uncertainty in renewable energy supply and the flexibility in energy demand at fine spatiotemporal resolutions significantly hinders a
LKY CIC Brownbag Lunchtime Talk: “Geospatial Knowledge Graph for Urban Studies”
Synopsis
Cities are evolving into increasingly differentiated, complex, and diverse systems. Fundamental drivers of urban forms, such as energy, mobility, and information technology, have transformed radically within the past decade. These shifts have given rise to new lifestyles, alongside changing demographic and migration patterns, prompting a need for new social structures and a rethinking of spatial
LKY CIC Brown Bag Lunchtime Talk: “Living in a Warmer World” (Rescheduled from 18 Sep)
Synopsis
Cities around the world are increasingly facing the challenges posed by the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, exacerbated by rising global temperatures due to climate change. The impacts of UHI go beyond mere discomfort, carrying significant health and economic consequences for urban populations. This talk will present findings from Project HeatSafe, a collaborative, multidisciplinary research
