Programme:
Architecture - PhD/MPhil/MSc by Research
Start date:
September 2024
Mode of study:
Full time
Research title:
Testing the Resilience of Future Cities - Employing Serious Games to Test Resilient City Design Strategies in a Chinese Context
I was born in 2000. From 2021 to 2022, I pursued my master's degree in Urban Design at the Games and Virtual Cities Research Group (RC12) in The Bartlett, UCL (University College London). Following that, I took up a position as an architectural assistant at the East China Architectural Design & Research Institute in Shanghai, where I collaborated with the professional design team in the Smart City Design Department on numerous urban projects, including a large-scale geothermal laboratory in partnership with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a 100,000-square-meter industry-academia-research complex in West Lake Town, Hangzhou. I played an active role in software modeling of terrain and urban environments. Currently, I serve as a PGR (Postgraduate Research) student representative at the University of Edinburgh and continue my PhD research related to the development of serious games and urban simulation software.
Currently, I am passionate about researching the role of new digital technologies in urban planning and exploring their potential applications in fields related to architecture and urban planning. My latest research program focuses on using serious games to test resilient urban design strategies in China. I simulate future urban shock scenarios (e.g., fires, floods, and heatwaves) using a meta-cellular automata model with players as city dwellers in the scenarios, and develop resilient city assessment strategies from a public participation perspective by analyzing players' behavioral mappings.
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