Research groups

The ClimaSens group focuses on the development of interactive, collaborative, and immersive urban planning workflows accessible to a broad range of users, ranging from domain experts, local authorities, to the general public. Our goal is to offer a novel approach to climate-sensitive urban development and climate change mitigation through intuitive immersive and interactive tools that will foster collaboration, communication and public participation in the planning process. We envision a future where such a system can be employed by all interested parties in a cost-effective way, including non-experts, to normalize public participation in urban development and to work on forward-looking designs collaboratively.

The research of the ClimaSens group targets an interdisciplinary synergy of environmental modeling and assessment, computational steering, interactive visualization, immersive urban analytics, physics-driven artificial intelligence, and citizen science. The focus of our research is on novel techniques for interactive simulation steering and real-time visualization of simulation results, both for experts and non-experts, for which we will also explore immersive visualization and analytics solutions and other strategies for public communication and involvement. Ultimately, we aim to develop a novel technology that will facilitate collaborative climate-sensitive adaptive planning for shaping resilient cities.