ComplexUrban spans four international research networks and multiple institutions to advance transdisciplinary architectural and urban research by merging social, environmental, and design sciences through the lens of complexity theory, synthesising computational design, artificial intelligence, and complexity-based methodologies.
DACAS is an ESRC funded Strategic Network.
It was part of the Urban Transformations (UT) program coordinated between 2015 and 2020 by Professor Michael Keith from the University of Oxford, showcasing research on cities. The UT portfolio included over 120 research projects that engaged with the challenges and opportunities of an increasingly urban world.
Ulysses Sengupta and Rob Hyde discussing Smart Cities in an article in The Guardian.
Urgent and complex challenges are frequently addressed as if they were merely visual design issues.
Keynote presentation and resultant case studies from the 2016 Joint DACAS ICTP-SAIFR Workshop.
Summary Smart city approaches promise technology-based opportunities to build sustainable urban futures. However, it is…
An examination of the impact of smart cities on communities, data collection, and citizenship.
Implications of the emergence of Complexity Theories of Cities (CTC)
Brochure for the DACAS Summer School at the Manchester School of Architecture
This presentation will elaborate the view that cities as complex systems are typified by co-evolutionary behaviour and organization.