Urban Digital Sustainability: AI-Driven Decision-Making for Architectural Practice
Urban Digital Sustainability: AI-Driven Decision-Making for Architectural Practice
Speaker:
Jumana Hamdani
Summary:
As cities face mounting pressures from climate change and urbanisation, architects must integrate advanced analytical tools to optimise design decisions across sustainability dimensions. This session explores how machine learning and artificial intelligence transform urban design practice through evidence-based approaches to environmental sustainability and community wellbeing. Examining AI-enabled studies on green infrastructure optimisation, space zoning, and public space activity prediction, participants will understand how computational methods assess environmental impacts and integrate behavioural insights into design. These emerging technologies support architects in fulfilling professional obligations to minimise resource consumption, care for the community, and advance carbon-neutral built environments while maintaining design excellence.
This talk was delivered online on 16 November 2025. Talk duration is 1 hour and 19 minutes.
Speaker Bio:
Jumana Hamdani is a registered architect in Sweden and Germany, founder of JS Works, and lecturer at Blekinge Institute of Technology. Currently a PhD candidate at ISTM, UNSW & ArchManu program, she holds a Master’s in Advanced Computation for Architecture and Design. With two decades of international design experience, her research focuses on digital sustainability in the built environment.
CPD Details:
This talk is offered as a formal CPD activity for architects, mapped to performance criteria PC28 and PC31 in the Australian 2021 National Standard of Competencies for Architects.
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