The 17th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM) was held online from June 9-11, 2021.
For 30 years, CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) has been one of the premier international conferences for the exchange of ideas and applications of computing technologies to address a diverse range of social, managerial, and environmental problems impacting urban planning and development.
In 2021, the CUPUM conference focused on collaborative, multidisciplinary and inclusive urban transformations and emphasized that future cities are made TOGETHER.
See you again at CUPUM 2023 in Montreal!
The organizing committee thanks you for joining us at CUPUM 2021!
Dr. Aija Staffans is an architect and works as Senior Research Fellow at Aalto University, Finland. Her research interest is in urban planning and design, especially in collaborative processes and knowledge integration. She is a pioneer in developing participatory methods and digitally supported platforms for land use planning. Dr. Staffans has initiated and managed several major research projects with over forty public and private partners. Since 2018, she manages the multi-disciplinary key research area of human-centered living environments, Aalto Living+. In 2016-2019 she visited Politecnico di Milano and from 2021 she is affiliated to Tallinn University of Technology. Dr. Staffans holds several positions of trust and expertise in academic, professional and NGO organizations.
Prof. Kirsi Virrantaus graduated as Architect (MSc Tech) in 1977, Licentiate of Technology (Cartography) in 1982 and Doctor of Technology (Cartography) in 1984. Specialized in spatial applications of computer science, applied mathematics and computational methods; special focus on computational applications of crisis and emergency management and situational awareness in them. Spent one academic year (1979-1980) in Delft TU as research fellow. Worked in private and public sector (1984-1987) and appointed to a professorship (Digital Cartography) in 1988. Worked since that at Technical University of Helsinki/Aalto University as professor and since 2013 as vice dean on education in the School of Engineering.
Prof. Marketta Kyttä, the professor in Land use planning in Aalto University, has her background in environmental psychology and participatory planning. Her research covers various topics: child-, and human friendly environments, environments that promote wellbeing and health, urban lifestyles, perceived safety and new methods for public participation.
Currently, her multidisciplinary research team concentrates on the place-based person-environment research with public participation GIS methodology. The team has worked with numerous real life public participation projects of cities in Finland and abroad. These include a large scale public participation project related to Helsinki Master plan process.
Marketta Kyttä works in the School of Engineering in Aalto University’s Department of Built Environment where she leads the research group and Master’s programme in Spatial Planning and Transportation Engineering that integrates the fields of land use and transportation planning without forgetting the human focus.
Emily Johnson is a research assistant and masters student of Planning + Transportation at Aalto University. She graduated summa cum laude from University of California, Davis in 2014 with a B.S. in Landscape Architecture. Her numerously-awarded thesis explored the impacts of involving youth in landscape design processes. Her landscape architecture career has centered around educational spaces and student housing in California. She also has a diverse, lifelong porfolio of volunteering with children and youth. Most recently she has volunteered as a full-time executive board member at the Aalto University Student Union, where she successfully promoted the development of a new student community center.
Antti Kauppi
TOGETHER
Urban Informatics for Future Cities
Planning support systems
Computer Aided Design
Geographic Information Systems
Spatial Data Collection
Spatial statistics, Analysis, and Visualisation
Urban Planning & Modeling
Gamification in Urban Planning
Decision Support Systems
Geodesign
Urban Informatics
Multidisciplinary and collaborative knowledge management
Participatory analytics
Living Labs
Digital Geographies
Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning and Management
Machine Learning
Artificial Neural Networks
Genetic Algorithms
City modelling and simulation
Agent-based modelling
Cellular Automata
Fuzzy models
Land-use & transportation modelling
Transport planning Analytics
Public participation support systems
Collaborative urban planning
Social Media as a communication tool
Participatory mapping approaches (PGIS, PPGIS, VGI)
Participatory design
Participatory budgeting
Digitalization and Urban Planning Cultures
Cultural changes in urban planning organizations
Usability studies
The impact of digitalisation on planning solutions
Geographical Visualisation
3D Geospatial Data / Geovisualisation
Serious Gaming / Game engines
Virtual Reality (VR)
Augmented Reality (AR)
Dashboards
Digital city management
Future Smart Cities & data analytics
Data interoperability & structured data in land use planning
Data privacy and anonymisation techniques
Ethical questions
Internet of things
Digital twins
Twin cities
Big data and data analytics in urban planning and management
Spatial Data mining
Remote Sensing
Social Media data analysis