The Fringe is free to attend and open to all, but registration is required in advance – please book your place via Eventbrite (external link).
Volunteer to help at the event by registering here (external link).
Timetable
17:00-18:00: City living: frustrations, hopes and the road ahead – Debate within Lecture Theatre 220, City & Guilds Building
Debate featuring:
- Andrew Collinge, Assistant Director at the Greater London Authority
- Nick Chrissos, Head of Innovation Technology for UK at CISCO
- Patricia Brown, Chair of London Architecture Festival and former CEO of the Central London Partnership
- Tom Cardis. Head of Planning,Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation
17:00-20.00: Cities of the Future Fringe – Exhibition and drinks reception in the College Main Entrance
Overview
The Cities of the future Fringe will look at the complexity, science and engineering that underpins our current city infrastructure and services, the problems we face when things go wrong, and the new technologies and innovations that will underpin our cities of the future.
The evening will kick off with a debate that gives you the opportunity to contribute your views and put your questions to a panel of industry and government experts on the future of our urban environments.
This discussion will be followed by a drinks reception and exhibition looking at a range of research projects from across the College that will give you the chance to:
- Discover plans to utilise our city heat waves and the sweltering tube network to lower energy bills with the Digital City Exchange
- Smell the flowers that could turn city roofs into garden oases that reduce flood damage and sewage overflow with the Blue Green Dream
- Experience the realities of traffic jams in Shanghai on a circular screen the size of a room within our Data Science Institute
- Choose between smart phone election voting and an oyster card for your utilities, whilst giving your views on city council investments in new technology with Dr Jeffrey Pittaway
- Find out how the UK water industry is wasting billions of gallons of water each year, and how new monitoring and control technologies developed by the InfraSense Labs group could improve the resilience, performance and efficiency of water supply networks.
- Peer down on London Queen Elizabeth Park as it is transformed into the UK’s first Smart Sustainable District, with Dr Chistoph Mazur from the Digital City Exchange
- Explore the future for electric cars in cities, and efforts to make you feel safe handing over the wheel to a computer driven autonomous vehicle
About the Imperial Fringe series
Cities of the Future is the latest in Imperial College’s Fringe series of public evening events exploring the livelier side of science. Based on the College’s ground-breaking research, the Fringe programme runs throughout the year to give our friends and supporters an opportunity to meet our researchers and find out more about our work.
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