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Future City Istanbul

City Design Through Design Intelligence (ciddi)

 

Principal Investigator: Imdat As 

Project Duration: Jan 2020 - Jan 2023

Funding: TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific Research Council) Grant

Ph.D. Students: 5

Researchers: 2

Status: Ongoing

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WEBSITE: ciddi.itu.edu.tr

 

DESCRIPTION: 

This project is to establish a “City Development through Design Intelligence” (CIDDI) research team, to explore the development of future cities. The project is jointly supported by the Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology, and the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning. We are investigating cutting-edge methods and technologies in architecture, city planning and urban design that will shape the design of urban environments. The questions are: How will the application of AI, IoT, automation, smart and green technologies shape future societies and the morphology of our built environment? We are working on a concrete site in Istanbul, which is approximately 8.2 km2 and will potentially house 500,000 new inhabitants. CIDDI will become an applied research laboratory that leverages crowdsourcing, i.e. new methods and techniques in citizen science and participation, in order to:

1- Explore new practice models that shape future city form,

2- Incubate creative start-ups that innovate in the construction/design space,

3- Develop new applications that engage citizens in planning, design and services; fostering a vision for direct, transparent and democratic governance of future cities.

We are an interdisciplinary research team hat investigate land-use planning, transportation planning, ecology, sociology and economy as it relates to urban design, and deal with city development at the a. territorial scale looking into Istanbul and its’ wider hinterland, b. the district level at Esenler, and c. the individual building level. Thus, we aim to explore new visionary technologies that tap into the power of crowd wisdom and collective design intelligence, in order to generate city form, govern planning decisions, and incubate start-ups relevant to the construction industry.

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PUBLICATIONS: 

  • Mehmet O. Senem, I. As, “Esenler Geleceğin Şehri: Nar İnovasyon Bölgesi Sıfır Atık Hedefi,” Sıfır Atık ve Akıllı Şehir Uygulamaları, Editör: Kasım Yenigün, ÇŞB Yayınları (in production)

  • Süedanur Özden, E. Arslantürk, M. O. Senem, I. As, “Gamification in Urban Planning: Experiencing the Future City via VR,” Hybrid Space of the Metaverse: Architecture in the Age of the Metaverse, Opportunities and Potentials, 10th ASCAAD Conference, Lebanon, 12-13 Oct 2022, pp.530-547.

  • Elcin Sarı, S. P. Öztürk, I. As, "Geleceğin Dirençli Kenti: Esenler Nar İnovasyon Bölgesi," Çevre, Şehir ve İklim Dergisi. Issue:1, Vol:2, pp. 119-146, June 2022

  • Elcin Sarı, C. Erbas, I. As, "The Image of the City through the Eyes of Machine Reasoning," Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning and Design, Technologies, Implementation, and Impacts. Editors: Imdat As, Prithwish Basu and Pratap Talwar. Elsevier, May 2022. 

  • Elcin Sarı, P. Basu, I. As, "A Machine Learning Approach for Locating Businesses along Main Arteries in Inner Cities," IEREK Conference, Future Smart Cities, Dec 2021

  • Elcin Sarı, H. Sacın, S. Yigitarslan, C. Erbas, I. As, "A Machine Reasoning Approach to Identify Design Patterns from City Layouts," IEREK Conference, Future Smart Cities, Dec 2021

  • As, I., Basu, P., Talwar P., Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning and Design: Technologies, Implementation, and Impacts, New York: Elsevier, May 2022

  • Esenler Gelecegin Sehri (Esenler Future City), Vol.1 Editors: As, I., Razzaghmanesh, D., Kayasu, S., Cavus, O., Dede, A., Esenler Belediyesi Yayınları, 2021
  • Cavus, O., Uyduran, G., Razzaghmanesh, D., As, I., An Evolutionary Approach for Topology Finding in Flexible and Modular Housing, CAADRIA, 2021 
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PRESENTATIONS/PANELS:

  • Kentsel Donusum Sempozyumu (Urban Transformation Symposium), Kentsel Donusum ve Akıllı Sehirler, Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Davutpasa Kongre Merkezi, Esenler, Istanbul, 8 Nov 2022.

  • Teknofest Karadeniz, Cevre Sehircilik ve Iklim Degisikligi Bakanligi - Akıllı Sehirler Paneli, Samsun Havalimanı, 2 Sep 2022.

  • 4. Verimlilik ve Teknoloji Fuarı, Yeşil Kalkınma Yeşil Enerji Paneli, ATO Congresium Fuar ve Kongre Merkezi, Ankara, 18 May 2022.

  • Aksaray Universitesi, “Esenler Gelecegin Sehri: Yasayan Bir Laboratuvar,” IBBF Conference Hall, May 10, 2022.

  • Smart City Expo, “NAR Innovation District at Esenler Future City,” Booth at the Turkish Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, Msheireb Downtown, Doha, Qatar, 29-30th March, 2022.

  • SUMMITS Uluslarasi AUS Zirvesi’22, “Ulasimin Gelecegini Sekillendiriyoruz,” Ankara, March 10, 2022.

  • G10 Strateji Platformu Buluşmaları, “Gelecegin Sehirleri Gelecegin Mimarisi,” G10 Konusmalari, ZOOM, Nov 25, 2021

  • (Organized) The Future City Summit (with Bim4Turkey), Istanbul Technical University, ZOOM, May 20-21, 2021.

  • Türkiye’nin Akilli Sehirleri e-Calistayi “Esenler,” TUBITAK Bilisim Vadisi, ZOOM, May 12-16, 2020.

  • Aksaray Universitesi, “Yapay Zeka ve Akilli Sehirler,” Sosyal Bilimler MYO, ZOOM, May 14, 2020.

  • Istanbul Technical University, “Crowdsourcing, AI, and the Future City,” Taskisla, Turkey, March 2, 2020.

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