Helsinki’s Digital Twin Report Released

A report called The Kalasatama Digital Twins Project by the Helsinki 3D+ team details the process and the technologies that they used to create a digital twin of the Kalasatama district. I met with the city’s team in April 2019 and consequently wrote the article Helsinki is Building a Digital Twin of the City. Download […]

Gardeners in the City of the Future: An Interview with Eric Baczuk

I had the pleasure of interviewing Eric Baczuk, Designer at Google. We discuss his views on the future urban experience and design. We also touch on Sidewalk Labs of which Eric was a founding team member. What are you working on currently? I lead a design team imagining future of communication and thinking about possibilities […]

Taking Service Network Planning to the Next Level

Cities and municipalities are basically systems for delivering services for the benefit of their citizens. An experimental project demonstrated how improving the flow of data between these services could save a lot of time and taxpayer money. Emilia Rönkkö Emilia Rönkkö is an architect who worked for the Finnish city of Kuopio. Besides that, she […]