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Supercomputing: Risk and Complexity in Planning
Can planning in Germany still keep up with its traditional instruments and tools in the current world of rapid change? There is great need for action in view of ever faster innovation cycles, global dynamics, conflicts and needs, which planning practice lags behind. Potential dangers are increased by extensive land consumption, resulting sealing, the conflict…
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GreenTwins Tallinn and Helsinki: Digital Twins for more democratic, resilient and greener cities.
Green spaces in cities are of particular importance in the face of ongoing urbanisation and the anthropogenic climate change. Urban greenery affects the physical and mental health of citizens. It reduces the immediate effects of global warming such as heat islands and improves the thermal comfort of cities. In addition, plants have an impact on…
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Urban Mobility and Placemaking: Using Digital Tools
Urban spaces are subject to constant change. Urban planning and its infrastructure are complex and characterised by different interests.In the framework of the research project CapeReviso, we are developing a tool for urban and transport planning in order to achieve an improved and more democratic basis for decisions. The planning- and decision-support tool is developed…
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Teaching: Scientific Visualisation in VR and AR at TU Wien
This seminar is addressed to students of all faculties and fields of study who want to learn how to visualize their own research results, designs, analyses and simulations on desktop, but also in augmented and virtual reality. Another key objective of the seminar is to promote interdisciplinary cooperation and to support scientific exchange beyond the…
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Recent Publications
We used the past months to publish some of our current research topics and results that deal with the effects and chances of the digital transformation, the transport and energy transition on urban and regional development. They all have the application of digital tools in common – for example digital twins – as well as…
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Guest Lecture at TU Wien: The Post-Oil City: Case Studies and Strategies
Which strategies should we already pursue today in order to recognise the consequences of the transition to sustainable transport systems for our cities at an early stage and to make use of the opportunities for a sustainable, liveable, healthy city? In my lecture at TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) I will present tools, paths…
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Hawk
The new supercomputer of the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) is the flagship of the facility, one of the fastest in the world, and also the fastest in Europe for general applications. Hawk is designed for engineering simulation applications and enables a variety of new workflows to support data generation, simulation, big-data analysis, deep learning…
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International Architecture Design Studio in VR
The international Student Seminar 2019 was hosted by the Japan Austria Science Exchange Center (JASEC) at TU Wien and High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) for architecture students from Saga University (Japan) and local students from TU Wien (Austria). A mixed group of architecture students from TU Wien (Austria) and Saga University (Japan) had the common…
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The Digital Twin
At the eCAADe+SIGRaDi 2019 conference in Porto we presented the Digital Twin of a German small town – a prototype for future evidence-based planning and urban design including collaborative and participatory processes. For the built environment’s transformation we are confronted with complex dynamics connected to economic, ecologic and demographic change (Czerkauer-Yamu et al., 2013; Yamu, 2014).…
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Invisible Heroes
How to raise awareness to show invisible care work by nursing relatives? We designed a sculpture to be installed at Vienna’s central Heldenplatz (Heroes’ Square) for our client, the Austrian Red Cross Society. A vast majority of care-dependent people are supported by their relatives, mostly women. They are an important societal factor, mainly financed out…
Fabian Dembski 