UCL CASA

CASA Seminar Series 2025-26 This academic seminar series explores a broad range of topics such as data science, urban planning and urban networks and their impact on the dynamic of cities.

The CASA Seminar Series kicks off tomorrow, with @stuartdunn.bsky.social discussing how humans have used tools and tech – from ancient maps to digital platforms – to shape and navigate space.

Wed 01 Oct, 13:00–14:00
📍 In person at CASA, no booking needed

Join us: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

Unfolded Walks Explore the work of young people from Bangabandhu Primary School, Bethnal Green and see the city through their eyes. A collaboration with UCL researchers and the Young V&A.

Join us on Thursday 25 September for Unfolded Walks. In this new collaboration between UCL researchers and the Young V&A, explore the work of young people from Bangabandhu Primary School, Bethnal Green and see the city through their eyes.

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A review article in Nature Cities Journal, co-authored by CASA's Professor Jon Reades, examines how textual data can transform urban research, bridging the gap between quantitative and qualitative approaches.

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Congratulations to CASA's Chairman Professor Michael Batty, who has been elected a foreign member of the Indian National Science Academy, in honour of his pioneering contributions to the world of science. His Fellowship will take effect in January 2026.

A crowd of Lime bikes, and a few Forest bikes, on a street in London WC1, stretching as far as the eye can see

Absolute swarm of Lime bikes outside our office today #TubeStrike

cc @londoncentric.media, @londonermag.bsky.social

TIME: The 3D Printed Clock is now available and for free on @printables.bsky.social - a new 'Hour Bell' addon is incoming... printables.com/model/137508... via @casaucl.bsky.social as part of our summer projects from the CE Lab @thebartlettucl.bsky.social

Group photograph of Louise Kempton, Yuna Lee, Rainer Kattel, Mark Tewdwr-Jones

Congratulations to my student Yuna Lee on the successful defence of her PhD thesis on Strategic Foresight and Policy Making in the US and UK yesterday @casaucl.bsky.social. Thanks to examiners Louise Kempton & Rainer Kattel, and Mike Batty for being part of the supervisory team

Bartlett Student and Alumnus Win Second Prize in Vertical Farm Architecture Competition CASA student Pei-Chi (Peggy) Tsai and Bartlett architecture graduate Chao-Chun Kung, with colleagues Nel Alexander Dau and Margarita Idt, were awarded for their project VerticLA: The Green Ascent.

Congrats to CASA student Pei-Chi (Peggy) Tsai on winning second place in a vertical farm architecture competition, with @thebartlettucl.bsky.social alumnus Chao-Chun Kung and teammates.

Their project, VerticLA, reimagines these spaces for intergenerational wellbeing.

www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...

Launching tonight: Connected Environments MSc's degree show, Sense, Deploy, Communicate

Join us for the opening night this evening from 6pm, or visit the show until 03 August.

1st Floor Galleries
UCL East Marshgate

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📍𝐑-𝐌𝐚𝐩 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐔𝐏𝐔𝐌 2025, 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧!

We were thrilled to present the R-Map Model at the 19𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐔𝐏𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 hosted by the @casaucl.bsky.social – a global center in advanced spatial analysis!

Source: The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL. Photographer: Richard Stonehouse

An article by CASA's Max Nathan @maxnathan.bsky.social (with Henry Overman, Capucine Riom and Maria Sanchez-Vidal) in CentrePiece finds that the BBC's move to Salford boosted local creative industries – but wider impacts were more limited than expected.

Read more: cep.lse.ac.uk/_NEW/PUBLICA...

CASA lecturer Valerio Signorelli is co-organising a hybrid symposium with the University of Melbourne on 21 July, exploring how extended reality technologies and immersive storytelling can help architecture and urbanism respond to the climate crisis.

More info: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/pixels-to-...

Sense, Deploy, Communicate: Connected Environments MSc Show
18 July-03 August
1st Floor Galleries, UCL East Marshgate
Opening night: 17 July, 18:00-20:00

Join us later this month to enjoy Connected Environments MSc students' graduating projects at their final show.

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The Bartlett staff promotions announced for 2024–25 UCL confirms new Senior Academic, Research and Teaching appointments, effective 01 October 2025.

Warm congratulations to CASA's Chen Zhong on being promoted to Professor of Urban Analytics in UCL's annual Senior Academic, Research & Teaching promotions list.

Promotions take effect 01 October 2025 and recognise our staff's exceptional contributions to UCL.
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🚨 Heads up! If you're working on skilled migration and innovation, submit your papers to our GeoInno 2026 sessions in Budapest, 28-30 January 👇

Closing date or papers or extended abstracts: 14 July 2025.

www.geoinno2026.com/session/s8-g...

##EconSky 📉📈 #geosky

Poster presentations at CUPUM 2025

VR experiences at CUPUM 2025

Hannah Fry at CUPUM 2025

Social gathering during CUPUM 2025

That’s a wrap on #CUPUM2025!

A brilliant week in London exploring ‘Cloud Cities’, with keynotes from Mike Batty, Hannah Fry and Rob Kitchin. Papers, posters, a pub quiz and a cockney singalong made for lively debates and new connections.

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Day 3 CUPUM “like day 3 at Glastonbury” says @adamdennett.bsky.social so great to sit down to listen to the @casaucl.bsky.social legend Mike

Lovely few days at the #CUPUM conference organised by @casaucl.bsky.social catching up with old friends and making new ones, learning new things, eating too many cookies, and narrowly missing out on winning the pub quiz. Lots of AI talk but good discussions about applied urban modelling too.

View of UCL’s One Pool Street atrium.

#CUPUM25 poster session in full swing at @casaucl.bsky.social East.

Day 2 at CUPUM up next @fryrsquared.bsky.social and starting with a lovely game! Cc @casaucl.bsky.social

A big /ht to @adamdennett.bsky.social and the rest of the @casaucl.bsky.social folks for the running of #CUPUM25! Living the ‘changeover time’, the fairly open, but zippy sessions, and the great socials… even when I have to pay for them <cough>UCL procurement</cough>. 🤣

And here we go with CUPUM @casaucl.bsky.social great intro from conf chair @adamdennett.bsky.social and liking the hat tip to @digitalurban.bsky.social metaverse of posters.

Gentrification and complexity – field-based workshop for A Level teachers Discover new ways of explaining changing places with a focus on connections between people, the economy, and how infrastructures link the local, national and international scales.

On 02 July, CASA academics will lead a one-day workshop introducing A Level teachers to new ways to explain changing places, focusing on connections between people, the economy and how infrastructure(s) link the local, national and international scales.

Book your place: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

www.iot.io/blog/2025/06... New book from the @casaucl.bsky.social connected environments folk will be hitting shelves soon.

Image description: An image of UCL buildings with text reading 'UCL Press 10th Anniversary Event' and 'Tune In Online Tomorrow!'

UCL Press’s 10th Anniversary event is tomorrow! Our expert panel from the worlds of HE and scholarly publishing will discuss achievements in open access monograph publishing in the last 10 years. More info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-press-...

The CASA Prize for Best Paper on Spatial Analysis was presented to Chris Larkin, PhD researcher at Newcastle University, during the @gisruk.bsky.social Conference 2025, in memory of Sinesio Alves Junior.

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📣 Join the Special Session “Geographies of Skilled Migration, Innovation and Knowledge Diffusion” at GeoInno 2026, January 28–30 in Budapest!

📅 Submit your abstract by July 14, 2025
🌐 Info: lnkd.in/dtwzMczk

The window to register is closing! Lock down your attendance at CUPUM this year before this Saturday's deadline.

Some stunning photography in today's #FotoVorschlag where people share their best shot (theme: my masterpiece)

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