A³RO
Imagining and realising different worlds
About A³RO
A³RO addresses global challenges through advanced and applied architecture-led interdisciplinary research. Architecture is essential to pursuing solutions to global social and environmental challenges as they require us to collectively imagine different worlds and invent ways to realise them together.
Through its research laboratories, A³RO operates at the intersection of the built environment, social systems, emerging technologies, and cultural memory, forging pathways toward equitable, sustainable, and critically engaged futures.
A³RO Focus
Our processes involve: Co-production and participation; AI in computer simulation and data analysis for design studies and Urban Transformation; Complex systems frameworks; Neighbourhood planning and smart participation; Building reuse, Degrowth and Urban ecology; Smart Cities and technological shifts; Narrative-driven and immersive media practices for heritage. A³RO, with its extensive stakeholder and research networks at a national, regional and international scales, will explore Action on Healthy Ageing and Design of Smart and Sustainable Future Cities as an International Centre of Excellence.
We collaborate to research the synergies and tensions between: Population growth, ageing and urbanisation; Zero Carbon Future Cities and Climate Change; Urban development and equity; Urban resilience, Smart Planning and participation; Socio-Techno-Ecological and Sustainable Transitions; Cultural politics of memory; Narrative and spatial representation.
The Core Labs
We explore pathways to desirable futures through the dynamics, synergies and tensions between the technology-focused Complexity, Planning and Urbanism laboratory [CPU]lab, the participation-focused Inclusive Cities laboratory [IC]lab, and the narrative and media-driven Future Processes laboratory [FP]lab.
