Cities as Complex Systems

Join the Swinburne University of Technology for a panel session that calls on an urban designer with an interest in complex adaptive systems, a theoretical physicist who researches sustainability transitions and societal transformations, and a mechanical engineer with specialist knowledge of fluid dynamics to consider the question: does viewing the city as a complex system more effectively facilitate a common understanding with which to scaffold a different type of conversation around sustainable urbanisation?

This event will be presented by the Smart Cities Research Institute on Thursday, 16 September 2021 at 12.00 PM AEST / 09.00 AM WIB – and will feature speakers such as Justyna Karakiewicz (Professor in Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne’s School of Design), Fjalar de Haan is a transitionist (Deakin University’s Senior Research Fellow in the School of Life & Environmental Sciences), Richard Manasseh (Professor of Fluid Dynamics at Swinburne University of Technology’s School of Engineering), and Mark Burry (Founding Director for Swinburne University of Technology’s ‘Smart Cities Research Institute).