Territories of Operation
Urban Systems & Civic Intelligence operates within complex territories of civic architecture, community resilience, and participatory urban transformation. This expertise encompasses the design of public spaces as urban catalysts, resilient infrastructures that adapt to climate change, and democratic platforms that enable collective spatial authorship across diverse communities.
Approach & Logics
1. Civic Architecture as Urban Catalyst: Public institutions and spaces designed as connective infrastructure, transforming museums, pavilions, and community centers into multimodal hubs that unify movement, knowledge, and social exchange.
2. Community-Driven Resilience Systems: Participatory frameworks that enable residents to collectively build, adapt, and maintain urban infrastructure using local materials and knowledge, fostering spatial cultures of agency and care.
3. Adaptive Environmental Infrastructure: Elevated platforms, modular assemblies, and intelligent material systems that respond to flooding, heat, and climate variability while maintaining everyday civic functions and community life.
4. Democratic Spatial Platforms: Digital and physical tools that democratize design participation, enabling citizens to shape their environments through accessible interfaces, collaborative workshops, and collective decision-making processes.
5. Integrated Urban Intelligence: Synthesis of community wisdom with environmental sensing, creating responsive urban systems that learn from both human behavior and natural patterns to optimize public space, mobility, and resilience.
Illustrative Projects
Inhabiting Uncertainty (Columbia GSAPP): Community-driven resilience infrastructure transforming Bridgeport's vacant lots into elevated civic platforms using salvaged materials, enabling collective adaptation to flooding through participatory assembly.
Adaptive Intelligence (Columbia GSAPP): Revolutionary waterfront system creating self-organizing coastal infrastructure that responds to tidal patterns through distributed sensor networks, balancing flood protection with public access through intelligent morphological adaptation.
Mobility Museum (Ohio State): Museum reimagined as multimodal transit hub along Wilshire Boulevard, integrating cultural programs with urban mobility to create new typology of civic connector and public infrastructure.
Domains:
Urban Planning & Policy | Civic Architecture & Public Space | Community Engagement | Climate Resilience | Smart City Technologies
Focus：
Community-driven participatory design | Resilient infrastructure for climate adaptation | Civic spaces as urban connectors and catalysts
Methods/Skills:
Grasshopper | Python | JavaScript | Unity | Hugging Face | TensorFlow | Ladybug | Climate Studio | Rhino | AutoCAD | QGIS | ArcGIS | Jupyter | Pandas | NumPy | Matplotlib | D3.js
Interdisciplinary Interface
Community planning and social equity | Climate science and environmental resilience | Public policy and urban governance | Transportation and mobility systems | Cultural institutions and civic programs
