Research
The Future Environments Lab is a research group dedicated to communicating complex science and co-designed approaches to complex spatial problems in the natural and built environment. Discover our research agenda, activities and talks.
We utilise novel methods to work and connect across disciplines, professions and communities. The research group works at the interface of emerging technology across explainable AI, Data Science, Environmental Engineering, Spatial Planning, Infrastructure, Serious Games, 3D GIS, and Urban Digital Twins. Our work bridges socio-technical challenges, collaborative frameworks, co-design and immersive experience for the public good.
Updates
Activities
Selected Keynotes / Talks
Digital Twins and Futures, Atlases and Digital Twins, University of Bologna, 6th November, 2026.
Morecambe Area Gaming Environment (MAGE)- serious gaming for complex coastal management decision making, Flood & Coast, CIWEM, 9th June, 2026.
Hartley, E., Where the Land meets the sea – Spatial Computing Sandbox for Coastal Futures, Geospatial World Forum, Amsterdam 2026.
Geodesign, Urban Digital Twins and Futures, SLU Landscape Days, Think Tank Movium, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 15-16th October, 2025.
Digital Twins at the Edge, C-MUS Conference, Mobilities Controversies—Place, Justice, Democracy, Aalborg University, 22-23th September, 2024.
Gaming, Digital Twins and the Future City, Digital Twins for Europe’s Future Mobility, ETH-Zurich, 4 – 6th September 2024.
World Building Urban Digital Twins: Designing for the Future, Urban Model Making: Knowledge, Technology and Society, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS), 2nd March, 2023.
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