Urban Informatics, QUT Design Lab

01/03/2026

QUT Design Lab’s Prof. Marcus Foth’s latest piece in The Fifth Estate. 🌳

Solarpunk promises regenerative, multispecies urban futures – but as its eco-futurist aesthetic travels from Singapore’s curated tourist icons to Brisbane’s 2032 Olympic transformation, sustainability risks sliding from systemic change into spectacle, and from ambition into greenwashing.

20/03/2024

The concept of a city has evolved far beyond that of ancient times, where the overarching goals of its creators were safety and security.

13/11/2023

Marcus Foth is a Professor of Urban Informatics in the School of Design and a Chief Investigator in the QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Faculty of Creative Industries, Education, and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He is a founding member of the Mo...

20/07/2023

Congratulations to the team led by QUT Design Lab Dr Kavita Gonsalves for winning the Media Architecture Biennale Equitable and Sustainable Media Architecture Award 2023 for the Chatty Bench Festival 2021 Community Media Projections! 🏆 👏

Congratulations to Chatty Bench Festival Community Media Visual Projections, WINNER of an MAB Award in the category Equitable and Sustainable Media Architecture. 🏆

Projects in this category reflected upon or addressed inequities and injustices related to society and/or climate.

Read more about this project: https://awards.mediaarchitecture.org/mab/project/390

Check out all the amazing projects for the Awards at https://mab23.org/mab-awards/

05/03/2023

Smart Cities - What are they and what do they aim to achieve? Just how widespread have they become in recent years? Are they merely vehicles for unethical surveillance or an example of technological integration that improves urban management for citizens?

4zzz’s Toni Pankaluic chatted about ‘All Things Smart Cities’ with Marcus Foth, a Professor of Urban Infomatics from QUT Design Lab. LISTEN HERE>>https://bit.ly/3EW7zCd

19/07/2022

Join Waldemar Jenek and Jordan Haimes for the Brisbane Computational Design Group BCDG Restart Event Wed 27 July 2022.

Waldemar will be talking about "Exploring Media Architecture Design in virtual design environments" and Jordan: "Cross River Rail – Digital Network Approach"

Wed, 27 July, 6:00 pm AEST: **Speaker 1: Waldamar Jenek** **Title: Exploring Media Architecture Design in virtual design environments** **Summary:** Real-time visualisation software can refine the m

30/06/2022

New research article out now: Urban parks, value uplift and green gentrification: An application of the spatial hedonic model in the city of Brisbane, by Marta Bottero, Caterina Capriolia, Marcus Foth, Peta Mitchell, Markus Rittenbruch and Marco Santangelo. 🇮🇹 🇦🇺

This study’s property economics modelling analysis indicates the conversion of Brisbane's Barrambin / Victoria Park from a golf course to public parkland will increase property prices by an average of 3% within 750m of the park. The article also discusses challenges of green gentrification and suggests possible policy responses.

50 days free access: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1fGyf5m5d7vrBD
ePrints record: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/231876/



QUT Design Lab, QUT (Queensland University of Technology), Politecnico di Torino

15/06/2022

Don’t miss Hira Sheikh’s exhibition opening at QUT Kelvin Grove The Block, Thu 23 June 2022, featuring a pre-launch workshop 5pm with Assoc. Prof. Donna Houston from Macquarie University, and an open bar at The Menagerie afterwards.

Tickets are free but RSVP for catering purposes: https://events.humanitix.com/smart-urban-governance-for-more-than-human-future-s-or-exhibition-opening-event

More information at: https://www.facebook.com/events/4927450647381893/

13/01/2022