Category: urbanism
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TU Wien: Nature Based and Digital Solutions for Future Spatial Planning and Design
During the summer semester 2025, TU Wien’s Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Institute of Spatial Planning, offered an innovative course entitled Digital Twins in the Context of Renaturation: Nature-Based and Digital Solutions for Spatial Planning. The seminar, led by visiting professor Fabian Dembski, explored how digital technologies can be combined with ecological approaches to address…
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Artificial Intelligence, Real Citizens: Using AI to Co-Design Better Neighborhoods
Finding a common language – beyond technical jargon – is essential to enable citizen science. Visualisation can be particularly useful in this context when it comes to creating scenarios in urban spaces or at the neighbourhood level. With the help of artificial intelligence, scenarios can be created in near real-time by laypersons, which can form…
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Visiting Professorship at TU Wien
What are ‘digital twins’ and how can they support spatial planning and architecture? What tools and methods can we apply in this context to develop ‘nature-based and digital solutions’ and strategies for climate-resilient cities and regions, and how can we use these for collaborative approaches and more democratic processes? In the seminar “Digital Twins in…
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Nature Based Solutions (NBS) in Central Tallinn
The research project ‘URBREATH’, funded by the European Union, started at the beginning of 2024 with the aim of implementing Nature Based Solutions (NBS) in urban areas to improve the resilience of cities and increase the quality of local life. The Academy of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) is…
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GreenTwins Project Successfully Completed
The GreenTwins large pilot project was completed with great success at the end of August. GreenTwins developed digital participatory tools and processes and a dynamic green layer for Tallinn’s digital twin. The applications and tools developed in the project are used, for example, by the City of Tallinn, the European Green Capital of 2023. To…
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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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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…
Fabian Dembski 