Colouring Cities & Urban Futures Collective

Part of a week of activities for the IAS Research Summit - Rethinking Urban Inequalities.

The morning will open with short showcases of two open-data initiatives — Colouring Cities (our local Loughborough chapter) and Urban Futures Collective (a global and international public-sector initiative) — presenting alternative models for building shared, participatory urban modelling infrastructure. This will lead into an expert panel, "Whose Data, Whose Future? Civic Mapping and the Ethics of AI in Climate Breakdown. The panel probes will probe the epistemological differences between these approaches — what counts as acceptable knowledge, who has authority to produce it, how it is validated — and what happens when both are entangled with AI. The session will close with a critical reflection on building open-source research ecosystems, working toward a summit's manifesto the next day.

Featuring IAS Visiting Fellows - 

• Rico Henri Herzog, HafenCity University Hamburg
• Dr Anastassia Vybornova, IT University of Copenhagen
• Associate Professor Jessica Espey, University of Southampton
• Associate Professor Esra Suel, University of Zurich
• Namrata Narendra, Independent Researcher and Artist

Arrivals from 9:45 am for a 10:00 am start. For those joining in-person, lunch will be available after this session from 1:30 pm

This event is hybrid format, please use the required booking button at the bottom of the page to choose either in-person or online attendance.
(Please note that in-person spaces are limited and booking is required, so we can manage numbers for catering and also the space in the seminar room)

By booking a place at this event, attendees agree to behave in a respectful manner such that everyone feels comfortable contributing as they wish. The IAS reserves the right to eject anyone who does not abide by this policy.

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