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Young Urbanists of Southeast Asia2023-present
Global Approaches to Urban Intelligence
Project Name
FCL x HUAI: Global Approaches to Urban Intelligence
Project Date
April 2026
Affiliation
Harvard Urban AI and Future Cities Laboratory Global
Team
Joshua VARGAS, Co-Convenor
Haozhuo YANG, Co-Convenor
XIN Huang, Co-Convenor
Rimshi AGRAWAL, Co-Convenor
Joshua's Contribution
Event Coordination: logistics and speaker coordination
Communications and Branding: visual identity and promotional materials
Outreach: speaker recruitment and audience engagement
Web Development: lecture series website development
Interaction Design: user experience for event platform
- Expert Interviews
- Event Management
- Public Speaking
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Event
- Urban Development
- Technology and Society
- Urban Futures
- HTML/CSS/JS
- React
Future Cities Laboratory Global, in partnership with Harvard Urban AI, presented 'FCL x HUAI: Global Approaches to Urban Intelligence' — a joint international lecture series exploring emerging methodologies by bringing together experts from across the urban AI world. The panels were free, open to the public, and held online via Zoom. On April 20, an in-person keynote was held at Gund Hall in the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, with a lecture delivered by Prof. Dr. Thomas Schroepfer, Director of the Future Cities Laboratory Global Singapore hub and Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). This lecture series brought together leading researchers on AI and cities, spanning Boston-Cambridge, Zurich, and Singapore.
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Future Cities Laboratory Global, in partnership with Harvard Urban AI, presented “FCL x HUAI: Global Approaches to Urban Intelligence” — a joint international lecture series exploring emerging methodologies by bringing together experts from across the urban AI world.
The panels were free, open to the public, and held online via Zoom. On April 20, an in-person keynote was held at Gund Hall in the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, with a lecture delivered by Prof. Dr. Thomas Schroepfer, Director of the Future Cities Laboratory Global Singapore hub and Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).
This lecture series brought together leading researchers on AI and cities, spanning Boston-Cambridge, Zurich, and Singapore to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming urban planning, design, and governance.
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