Since the introduction of the iconic Aware Home project [39] in 1999, the notion of “living
laboratory” has been taken up and developed in HCI research. Many of the underpinning …

Providing for the future needs of society requires civil engineers to envision the far future,
embrace the concepts of sustainability, resilience, smartness, liveability and adaptability …

Drone Futures explores new paradigms in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in landscape
and urban design. UAS or drones can be deployed with direct application to the built …

The ubiquity of “smartness” in contemporary discourse suggests an advancement of some
kind, albeit predicated on various technologies. Smart cities typically present an optimistic …

Afrofuturism as “both an artistic aesthetic and a framework for critical theory” is concerned
with racial equity and technological agency to create emergent liberatory [social] systems …

Increasingly the world around us is becoming 'smart'. From smart meters to smart production,
from smart surfaces to smart grids, from smart phones to smart citizens.'Smart'has become …

Much has been written about the benefits of green infrastructure, but securing the resources
necessary for its development and long-term maintenance is often difficult. This article's …

This paper reports on a participatory workshop with a group of rural youths exploring ways of
engaging them to capture their voices, examining whether design-based participatory …

With the ongoing development of increasingly complex and uncertain urban contexts,
imagining and envisioning future scenarios have become essential competences in the …

Food and place are inextricably linked in the way they shape each other. Settlements in all
cultures around the world have always been designed around food, by either establishing …