Seminar "Urban Development & New Threats"

The seminar was an opportunity to discuss new urban risks (floods, air pollution, epidemics), and simulation modeling methods to represent these issues in a more visible and understandable way, thereby offering solutions to challenges and taking advantage of opportunities in cities with a long-term vision and sustainable development.

Visualizing the city of tomorrow today will help all stakeholders understand the complexity, thus jointly assessing risk, and discussinh its change and planning process. This is the goal pursued by integrated modeling approaches, such as agent-based modeling, with the ability to study possible trajectories and identify their ramifications, especially ramifications related to new risks and population vulnerabilities.

These modeling methods are based on the construction and simulation of artificial worlds, where the behavior of agents and their surroundings are shown in detail. These methods are gradually becoming an essential tool for discussing socio-environmental issues as well as for research, and even for developing scenarios to cope with constraints or contradictions of the parties involved.

Modeling allows us to unleash our imagination when in reality it is not possible. Modeling also helps to create new city simulations with potential inadequacies. As a result, we can rethink our practices, visualize the city in a different way, and be supported in the transition to a sustainable urban lifestyle.

The seminar saw the participation of three speakers: Informatics researcher Alexis Drogoul, Informatics researcher Patrick Taillandier, and Doctor of Computer Science Nguyen Ngoc Doanh, and was moderated by Informatics research expert Ho Tuong Vinh. The speakers introduced 3 specific projects on modeling and simulation of urban hazards, including designing flood evacuation strategies (ESCAPE project), the relationship between city’s organization methods and air pollution (Hoan Kiem Air project) and health policy in response to epidemics in urban areas (COMOKIT project). Through it, we will understand how modeling is used in decision making by public authorities.

Attendees questioned the speakers directly about the risks that may arise in using these models.

The seminar "Urban Development and New Threats" took place successfully in both live and online formats.

Some photo from the seminar:

At the seminar

Speakers answer questions directly at the seminar

Taking photo at the seminar

Translated by Phuong Huyen
Link to Vietnamese version