Jakarta: Architecture + Adaptation
edited by Dr. Etienne Turpin, Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow, SMART Infrastructure Facility
Adam Bobbette, and Meredith Miller.
[Bilingual edition in English and Bahasa Indonesian]
(Depok: Universitas Indonesia Press, November 2013) Continue reading
An interactive, geo-analytical dashboard consists of three reports and a group of filters, (a) drillable map report, (b) radar chart providing a snapshot of utility use, (c) statistical bubble chart, and (d) filter group.
Our academic team have published an article in the journal Knowledge-Based Systems about how the SMART Infrastructure Dashboard (SID), and data-tools like it, can be used to help develop integrated infrastructure solutions for regional towns and cities. Continue reading
The Communique from the 2013 International Symposium for Next Generation Infrastructure (ISNGI) is now available:
Leading urban studies academic, Professor AbdouMaliq Simone from the University of South Australia, visited UOW on Monday, 4 November, as part of the SMART Seminar Series.
Professor Simone has developed one of the most robust and influential theories of “cityness” through recent publications, such as City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at a Crossroads.
This event coincided with the release of Jakarta: Architecture + Adaptation, which was co-edited by Dr Etienne Turpin.
A playlist of videos from and about the 2013 International Symposium for Next Generation Infrastructure (ISNGI) at the University of Wollongong.
View more videos from SMART Infrastructure Facility at our YouTube channel.
Our Research Director Professor Pascal Perez speaks at TedxUWollongong 2013.
SMART Infrastructure Professorial Fellow Prof. Graham Harris writes in The Conversation:
I sometimes wonder what planet this country of ours is on. The environmental debate we are having seems to be in a parallel universe to the rest of the world. Having spent the last four years running one of Europe’s biggest environmental research laboratories, the Lancaster Environment Centre, I find Australia strangely out of kilter.
All I hear here is apocalyptic gloom and doom: either the planet is done for if we don’t act, or the economy is done for if we do! We have a highly polarised debate and even more polarised reporting; with too much hand-wringing and head-banging but too little rational discussion or consultation about what actually to do. Doing nothing isn’t an option.
SMART Infrastructure Professorial Fellow Prof. Graham Harris writes in The Conversation:
The splendour of nature diminishes day by day despite the strenuous efforts of ecologists and all manner of scientific understandings and interventions. Biodiversity is in decline, and crucial resources become ever scarcer. Meanwhile the human population continues to rise, as do atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and long-term global temperatures.
Governments, corporations, and community groups all over the world invest in conservation and restoration programmes, but to depressingly little end. Obviously far more could be spent and far more could be done, but that would be no guarantee of success – not when our very approach to ecology is fundamentally flawed and wrong-headed.
SMART Infrastructure Professorial Fellow Prof. Graham Harris writes in The Conversation:
I’ve been away in the UK for a few years – and what do I find when I come back? In the Murray Darling we are still arguing over inputs (the amount of water to be returned to the river) instead of focusing on the state we actually want the river system to be in, and how to make it so.
