🎤 Presenting and Organizing at CUPUM 2025 London!

Excited to be part of CUPUM 2025, held this year in London, where I had the opportunity to both present and co-organize academic activities around the theme of digital planning.

🎙 Oral Presentation

I delivered an oral presentation titled “Simulating Power Dynamics in Social Media Participation in Digital Planning: An Agent-Based Model Approach”, co-authored with Dr. Yanliu Lin (Utrecht University).
The paper introduces a novel agent-based modeling (ABM) framework that integrates social media data and social network analysis (SNA) to simulate actor interactions, information diffusion, and power relations within online urban planning controversies. By incorporating dynamic behavior rules and diverse actor types—including citizens, media, experts, and civil society organizations—the model sheds light on informal participation mechanisms in digital planning.

🪑 Session Chairing

I also had the pleasure of chairing a parallel session focused on participatory planning and computational modeling in urban governance.

🧠 Workshop Co-Organizer

Together with Prof. Stan Geertman, Dr. Yanliu Lin, and Dr. Nuno Pinto, I co-organized a well-received workshop titled:
“Developing the Agenda for Digital Planning and AI”.

The workshop brought together scholars and practitioners to explore the ethical, infrastructural, and governance challenges posed by Urban AI—including generative AI, autonomous systems, and smart city technologies. Participants collaboratively drafted initial guidelines for responsible and human-centered AI deployment in urban planning, laying the groundwork for a future research agenda in this critical field.

Looking forward to continuing these conversations and collaborations on the role of AI and digital participation in planning!