Prof. Jörg Rainer Noennig
HafenCity University Hamburg, GermanyTooling for Cities - A Development Agenda for City Tech Solutions
Abstract:
We are in Cambrium period for city tech solutions: over the past years we have witnessed an "explosion of species" as regards digital tools for urban management, planning and development. The panorama of solutions is rapidly expanding and becoming ever harder to oversee. This poses challenges for cities and communities (Which tools to use? How to find the most appropriate solutions?) as well as for researchers and developers (What is already there, and on which level of maturity / applicablity? Are we reinventing the wheel?). The keynote talk outlines the factors that have contributed to this development and suggests measures for organising the landscape of city tools. It also shows how the research groups of the speaker - the chair of Digital City Science at HafenCity University Hamburg and the Knowledge Architecture Lab at TU Dresden - have contributed their share to the pool of solutions, by using a structured development pipeline for creating innovative city tools.
Biography:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Rainer NOENNIG (*1973) is Professor for Digital City Science at HCU HafenCity University in Hamburg, head of the WISSENSARCHITEKTUR Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture at TU Dresden, and co-founder of software startup Scenerii GmbH. From 1992 to 1998, he studied architecture at Bauhaus University Weimar, Polytechn Krakow and Waseda University Tokyo. Between 1998 and 2001 he practiced as architect in Tokyo, among others at Ishiyama Experimental Underground Architecture Factory and Arata Isozaki & Associates, as well as a freelance architect. From 2001 he was Research Associate at TU Dresden, where he was appointed Junior Professor for Knowledge Architecture (2009-2015) and Interim Professor for Industrial and Commercial Building Design (2015-2016). In 2007 he received his doctorate from Bauhaus Universität Weimar on the topic of architectural complexity and design science. He taught at different universities in Japan, USA, China, Italy, Switzerland and Angola. He was Visiting Professor at Universita degli Studi dell l'Aquila, ISEN Toulon, Voronezh State Technical University, and Toyo University Tokyo. His research focuses on digital cities and collaborative environments from architectural to urban level. He has published several books as well as >150 scientific papers. He has won several prizes, scholarships and awards, incl. the Grand Prize of the European Association for Architecture Education (EAAE). Since 2007 he is married to Yoco Fukuda-Noennig; they have two children.
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