Colouring Cities & Urban Futures Collective

Part of a week of activities for the IAS Research Summit - Rethinking Urban Inequalities. The morning will open with short showcases of two open-data initiatives — Colouring Cities (our local Loughborough chapter) and Urban Futures Collective (a global and international public-sector initiative) — presenting alternative models for building shared, participatory urban modelling infrastructure. This will lead into an expert panel, "Whose Data, Whose Future? Civic Mapping and the Ethics of AI in Climate Breakdown. The panel probes will probe the epistemological differences between these approaches — what counts as acceptable knowledge, who has authority to produce it, how it is validated — and what happens when both are entangled with AI. The session will close with a critical reflection on building open-source research ecosystems, working toward a summit's manifesto the next day. Featuring IAS Visiting Fellows - Dr Polly Hudson, University of Cambridge Rico Henri Herzog, HafenCity University Hamburg Dr Anastassia Vybornova, IT University of Copenhagen And for the panel discussion, chaired by Dr Monia Del Pinto - Associate Professor Esra Suel, University of Zurich David Jacome Polit, Delft University of Technology Dr Caitlin Robinson, University of Bristol Dr Polly Hudson, University of Cambridge Professor Ksenia Chmutina, Loughborough University Professor Valerie Pinfield, Loughborough University For more information about the IAS, please visit - https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias ----- Chapters ----- 00:00:00 - Intro & Welcome 00:03:24 - Dr Polly Hudson 00:21:58 - Rico Henri Herzog & Anastassia Vybornova 00:34:49 - Panel Discussion