Jörg Rainer Noennig

TU Dresden | TUD · WISSENSARCHITEKTUR Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture

With the premise that innovation and diffusion of technology is both an individual and collective act, this paper intends to explore the invention and diffusion of TOSCA Toolkit for Open and Sustainable City Planning and Analysis, an open-source Geographic Information Systems tool that is an innovation in the field of urban planning. An exploration...

Purpose Digitalising cities requires new urban governance processes that account for rapidly changing environments and technological advances. In this context, agile development methods have become valuable, if not necessary. However, agile development contradicts public administration practices of risk aversion and long-term planning. The purpose...

The success of smart city initiatives relies on the active involvement of diverse stakeholders. This article addresses the practical implementation of citizen engagement in smart city development, specifically focusing on elaborating a smart city strategy. The article presents the participative and co-creative formats that have driven the elaborati...

The article reports about the development of the platform MICADO, a Horizon2020 innovation action, that merged approaches in business intelligence, data analytics and visualisation in support of migrant integration management in European cities. The resulting application addresses public authorities, civil society organisations, and migrants alike,...

Bei der verkehrlichen Erschließung des urbanen Luftraums für Drohnen in Deutschland haben Kommunen eine Schlüsselrolle. In der Planung lokaler Verkehrsleitsysteme, sogenannter U-Spaces, sind sie einerseits aufgefordert, kommunale Belange in das Ausweisungsverfahren einzubringen, andererseits stehen sie als Bindeglied zur Stadtgesellschaft in der Pf...

In civil engineering, carbon is typically regarded as a modern material to serve as reinforcement in concrete structures. Compared to steel reinforcement, it features two substantial benefits: It is not sensitive to corrosion, and has an enormously increased tensile strength. In contrast, carbon reinforcement is sensitive to lateral pressure and la...

The present work investigates programmable auxetic surfaces and how they can be enabled to achieve a general surface shape upon external control. To actively generate target geometries from an initial geometry, a process of non-uniform expansion or contraction as well as an alteration of local curvatures are necessary. This implies the alignment of...

Topological interlocking is an abstract concept which requires that, given an assembly of blocks with a fixed frame as a constraint, no group of blocks can be removed. We introduce a construction kit based on a block, called Versatile Block, that leads to a wide range of possible topological interlocking assemblies. We show that the combinatorics o...

This paper analyses the different adaptations of TOSCA, an open-source geographical information system (GIS) toolkit to different urban contexts across the world and the learnings through these adaptations; involving the synthesis of extracted knowledge, its translation and final adaptation into a location-customised tool for decision-support in th...

Triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) are studied in material sciences because they have a high stiffness to weight ratio and variable relative density. However, their use in the design of building components at large scales has not been fully explored. This is partly due to their complex nature and the resulting difficult integration into the de...

In the planning of smart cities, machine learning models can support decision-making with intelligent insights. But what data sets should training processes be based on if there is not yet a city from which to collect data, or if data is not usable due to privacy issues? Synthetic data can provide a realistic representation of conditions in the cit...

Considering the rapid pace of global urbanization especially in emerging economies of the global South, this article addresses governance approaches for the sustainable development of cities which seek to transform into smart cities. It focuses on leapfrogging as a governance concept for cities thriving towards sustainable development and describes...

Within the scope of the present study, potentials for the use of electrically powered, vertical take-off air cabs (eVTOLs) in Saxony have been investigated and corresponding recommendations for action have been derived. UAM and RAM offer the opportunity to improve rural connectivity, to increase the added value of the local aerospace industry as we...

In the context of the digital transformation of cities, the application of data-driven tools has become a common practice in urban studies and metropolitan research. Beyond their appropriate utilisation, their targeted design poses challenges as well. Unlike established practices in the engineering and design domains, there are only few processes e...

Die digitale Transformation von Stadt und Gesellschaft verändert fortwährend unsere Lebenswelten – die Art und Weise, wie wir arbeiten und lernen, uns fortbewegen und Dinge produzieren, handeln und konsumieren. Für die Kommunen bedeutet dies neben neuen Aufgaben auch neue Chancen und neue Risiken. Sie stehen vor der Herausforderung, digitale Trends...

Die Visionen zur Anwendung urbaner Luftmobilität sind vielfältig – als unterstützendes Element im Gesundheitswesen und der städtischen Logistik bis hin zur alltäglichen Nutzung im Personentransport. Neben der Gestaltung der technologischen und rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen stellen sich hierbei grundlegende Fragen für die Stadtplanung. Wie verläuft...

Severe challenges such as depletion of natural resources, natural catastrophes, extreme weather conditions, or overpopulation require intelligent solutions especially in architecture. Built environments that are conceived from smart materials based on actuator and sensor functionality provide a promising approach in order to address this demand. Th...

Pedestrian activity is a cornerstone for urban sustainability, with key implications for the environment, public health, social cohesion, and the local economy. Therefore, city planners, urban designers, and decision-makers require tools to predict pedestrian mobility and assess the walkability of existing or planned urban environments. For this pu...

Exploring the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in urban planning and governance, this article reviews most current smart city developments and outlines the future potential of AI, especially in the context of participatory urban design. It concludes that especially the algorithmic analysis and synthesis of large data sets gen...

A combination of Telecom tracking data, Instagram posts, and a summary of data extracted from person-counting sensors and vehicle parking records were utilized to simulate and evaluate scenarios transferring cruise passengers from Hamburg Central Station to several cruise terminals.

This paper presents a digital online tool and interaction process that supplies algorithmic analysis and predictive simulation for early-stage urban design proposals within the framework of public competitions. Specifically, the system supports the decision-making of two user groups: 1) planners in the process of developing urban designs proposals...

Measuring the quality of the urban environment has been a matter of research rooted in different fields of knowledge. Several methods and indicators have been deployed through the years, as have horizontal approaches from mixed perspectives. However, currently established indexes to measure urban performance depend on the actual definition of quali...

In a complex urban scenario with a growing number of stakeholders and high dynamic developments, decision makers rely heavily on public data to make informed decisions. Often though, the available data is heterogeneous and stems from incomplete or inconsistent sources. The planning process, especially the definition of planning goals/needs, is ofte...

Smart Cities offer the promise to improve the quality of live for their inhabitants. Therefore, new concepts and technologies for citizen participation is indispensable. Not only new mobility technologies, but digital-driven interaction between citizens and planners is a key component for future smart cities. In the U_CODE Project an innovative app...

Decision-making problems in urban planning and management emerge through escalating urban dynamics, especially of megacities. Instead of bureaucratic top-down methods, digital bottom-up technologies and methodologies provide interesting alternative approaches. The broad integration of crowdsourced information into planning procedures has the potent...

Harbors are complex sociotechnical systems in which several agents are involved. The Port City Model (PCM) is a project that investigates multimodal land transportation related to cruise tourism, focusing on comfort and efficiency from the user perspective. To do so, it combines data analysis and visualization with simulation of future scenarios. T...

The Altona Mobility Lab, part of the EU project “Cities-4-People” funded by Horizon 2020, seeks to implement locally developed mobility solutions through a dedicated co-creative approach. The Lab demonstrates the process of community building, ideation, and implementation for user-centric mobility solutions and provides an example of co-creation in...

Cities-4-People (C4P) proposes the People-Oriented Transport and Mobility (POTM) model as an approach to improve urban and mobility planning. POTM is founded on a broad understanding of sustainability, with the goal of increasing citizen identification with and active participation in the local mobility environment, as well as reducing transportati...

Urban development that strives to meet democratic ideals and the needs of all stakeholders must incorporate public participation. Contemporary participation processes may employ digital tools that open new possibilities regarding the range of participants and the intensity of participation. In particular, they can uniquely allow for large and diver...

In engineering education, practice and research, a central issue is how traditional thought patterns can be broken up by creative tools and impulses. This paper presents the outline for a method that supports the discovery of new sources of inspiration in search fields such as literature, film, fine art or music, and enables engineers to generate d...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is a case study evaluation based on a mobile innovation lab experiment – a new training and service format that offers innovation trainings on a mobile basis for schools in rural regions. Design/methodology/approach The research aims to connect concepts of “entrepreneurial orientation and education” and “innovatio...

Traditionally, the conference „Communities in New Media (GeNeMe)“ examines organisational and information technology perspectives in the context of virtual enterprises, online communities, and social networks. As organisers of the „Knowledge Communities 2016“ conference at the Technische Universität Dresden, Nina Kahnwald, Thomas Köhler, Eric Schoo...

A comprehensive piece of research on the tools and methods available for public participation in urban development was carried out as part of the U_CODE Urban Collective Design Environment H2020-ICT Project, the results of which are presented in this paper. Approximately 70 methods and a range of participation goals were identified by investigating...

Starting from the assumption that development of urban areas is linked to mobility and access to transportation, the paper investigates car-sharing services as an active instrument for urban development. It hypothesizes that purposeful implementation of car-sharing invigorates “sleeping” urban areas, and potentially turns them into places of high u...

Full text available as Open Access Publication via: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-334913. The 21.st Conference on Communities in New Media (GeNeMe) presents innovative technologies and processes for the organization, cooperation and communication in virtual communities and is a forum for professional exchange especially in the...

Purpose – Exploring data-driven business models in the context of smart or intelligent cities, this paper introduces a methodology how a strategic exploitation of urban data can lead to an iterative, controlled and sustainable development of innovative services or products for local entrepreneurs, companies or municipalities. Our key idea is that c...

In the context of data driven cities, this paper introduces the notion of an "Internet of Buildings" (IoB), and discusses the potential of connected devices, sensor networks and data analysis to support the purposeful design and development of a livable, well-designed urban environment. The key argument of this paper is that today's Internet of Bui...

In order to enable appropriate citizen engagement and user participation in urban development projects, knowledge is needed about the availability of tools and methods and their applicability to the different stages of a design or planning process. However, a systematic overview of the various digital and non-digital approaches for public participa...

This paper describes the conception, development and deployment of a novel HCI system for public participation and decision-making. This system was applied for the process of allocating refugee accommodation in the City of Hamburg within the FindingPlaces project (FP) in 2016. The CityScope (CS) – a rapid prototyping platform for urban planning and...

On the background of an increasing interest in participatory approaches in urban development, a multitude of participation methods has been created and tested over the past years. They key issue decision making in participatory settings, however, remains an open question, especially in digital forms of participation. While in conventional non-parti...

Different cases of public disagreement in different European countries have shown recently that perusing a thorough planning process is by no means a guarantee for a broad public acceptance of an envisioned urban project. Consequently, the employment of digital media and tools to enable participation of inhabitants in urban planning processes on a...

The 20th Communities in New Media (GeNeMe) Conference presents innovative technologies and processes for the organization, cooperation, and communication in virtual communities. It is a forum for professional exchange especially in the fields of knowledge management and online learning. The conference focuses not only on technological and economic...

This paper presents the blueprint for an urban quarter where citizens and robots can learn from each other, and co-work. To fully integrate within human social life and environment, robots needs to observe, experience, and adapt to human action. On the other hand, humans need to learn how to co-exist with increasingly intelligent machinery within c...

This paper investigates the application of swarm intelligence in the field of architecture. We seek to distinguish different fields of application by regarding swarm intelligence as a potential tool to support the design process, to improve architectural use and further create novel building systems, based on self-organization principles. In archit...

Purpose – The German Future City competition seeks new procedures to enable engagement of the broader citizenship within urban vision-making processes. To support Dresden ́s ‘Open City’ project within the competition, we have created a visual tool and method set that supports the collection of ideas from the citizenship, and their qualification int...

Purpose – Rapid urbanisation requires cities to develop adaptive strategies, new programmes, and long-term visions. Concepts for urban futures need to outline operations that are sustainable in economic, social, environmental terms. The paper therefore presents a systematic description of cities by way of ‘Urban Business Models’ (UBM). As a method...

Purpose – The global trend of urbanisation affects countrysides across Europe more and more. Many regions suffer from fast shrinking towns as a result of economic emigration. So far, governments encounter this development with only a few measurements. One option is strengthening the innovative capabilities in local SMEs and supporting creative busi...

To create devices and systems that may be termed “smart”, design principles still need clarification. This article presents a methodology for implementing “smartness” into individual objects, and for connecting them into intelligent cyber-physical systems. A simple algorithm is presented that brings smart faculties of sensing and learning into obje...

Purpose: In the last decade increasing amounts of innovative technologies and business plans have been formed at the interfaces of highly divergent disciplines that had no, or only a few connections before. In contrast, over the years established incubator structures in industry clusters have supported entrepreneurs mainly in one specific field. Th...

The paper reports about a German cross-cluster cooperation project that links a microelectronics cluster with a biotechnology cluster. The focus is on cross-cluster innovation: How can new products and start-ups be systematically generated and qualified at the intersection of the two fields? The article presents methods and tools that were custom-t...

In order to understand basic mechanisms of so-called Knowledge Ecosystems, the paper presents a study for modelling the emergence and diffusion of knowledge in regards to environmental conditions. The text gives an outline for the description of Knowledge Ecosystems by integrating 1) models for environmental dynamics based on resources and attracti...

Knowledge work, creativity and innovation have turned into major urban industries. But how do urban environments activate their potentials and production processes? What are the constituting elements of a 'creative city', and how are they interrelated? The article presents a theoretical framework for the post-industrial creative city as a knowledge...

Als „Gemeinschaft in Neuen Medien“ wird im Artikel die Community der sog. Makerspaces diskutiert – offene kreative Werkstätten, deren neues Medium die im Begriff „Fablab“ zusammengefassten neuen Design- und Herstellungstechnologien sind. Diese beruhen auf einer digitalen Durchgängigkeit von den frühen konzeptionellen Phasen bis hin zur Prototypen-F...

The biological immune system is an orchestrated, complex network that runs specialized defense reactions to inhibit infections of the whole organism. The immune system memorizes past infections and automatically builds up resilience. The paper analyses these and additional functions of biological immune systems and transfers them to personal commun...

GeNeMe steht für Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien, im englischen Sprachgebrauch als Web-based Communities oder Online Communities bezeichnet. Diese Konfigurationen aus Informationstechnologie und sozialer Gemeinschaft sind gleichermaßen Thema für Anwendung und Forschung. Dabei wird deutlich, dass diese Konfigurationen aus Informationstechnologie und...

In the presented work we attempt to find a way to utilize the collaborative intelligence of bio-inspired multi-agent systems for an architectural application. To do so we establish, geometrically describe, optimize and program a physical object. Our setup is a foldable structure of interconnected triangles where simple robotic agents control the an...

As an extract of an ongoing cooperative project of Wrocław University of Technology and TU Dresden, the paper explores the emergence of innovation and asks whether innovation can be to any extent predicted spatially. Cellular Automata (CA) have been chosen for this study as the spatial modelling tool. The goal is to understand the nature of the spr...

Purpose – The aim of the current study was to identify and analyze success factors of knowledge transfer in innovation processes of regional industry clusters that increase organizations´ and, in turn, clusters´ resilience. Design & Methodology – The research process consists of three parts: literature review looking at success factors for inter-o...

Based on the assumption that so-called “Smart Cities” ought to have an ability to detect and properly respond to disasters, the article presents a descriptive model for urban disasters. The discussion of how urban disasters evolve leads to an inquiry into the systemic mechanisms of cities, and the dynamics of urban disasters. Cities can be describe...

„Smart Factories“ folgen dem Konzept, dass künftig durch die Inte- gration Cyber-Physischer Lösungen die steigende Komplexität von Produktionssystemen bewältigt wird. Ziel ist, unerwartete Störungen selbstregulierend zu beheben. Dies erfordert die Übertragung mensch- licher Wissensmodelle in „Cyber-Physische Systeme“ (CPS). Der Fach- artikel beschr...

Produktionsanlagen werden durch ihre technologische Vielfalt und Tiefe immer komplizierter. Bei Produktionsstörungen erschwert dies das Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlerquellen, da fachspezifisches Know-how meist nicht dezentral vorhanden ist. Im folgenden Beitrag werden Ansätze vorgestellt, welche Kommunikationsbarrieren überwinden und einen dynami...

Rail-City-Portalsclose existing gaps in a environment-friendly, intelligent, and city-friendly logistics chain. Their philosophy of "Green-Urban-Intelligence"combines intermodal information technologies with concepts for the clustering of small-size parcels for e-mobility-based urban delivery. Rail-City-Portals support the freight transfer from hig...

Smart factories follow the idea that increasing complexity of production systems can be solved by the integration of cyber-physical solutions. Unexpected dysfunctions should be fixed self-regulated and proactive. In the first step, this requires the transfer of human knowledge models to cyber-physical systems. The article describes the role of dyna...

Die Transformation von Städten zu „Smart Cities“ ist eines der aufkommenden Themen im Infrastrukturmanagement. Dabei variiert das Verständnis von „Smartness“ und deren Integration in den Planungsprozess noch sehr stark. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Problematik wird im Folgenden der Begriff „Smart City“ im systemtheoretischen Zusammenhang geklärt. Dar...

The paper focuses on the importance of socio-spatial patterns and atmospheric qualities for knowledge work in real and virtual environments. On the background of research in the fields of Knowledge Architecture, Online Worlds and Environmental Design we show the interdependence between architectural design and human-computer interaction. The paper...

Our paper contributes to discourses on Computer Aided Thinking and introduces new techniques for the modeling of mental processes. The objective of our investigations is to support the description and creation of ideas through physical externalizations of cognition, and their subsequent translation into evolutionary algorithms. Through different ty...

Kürzer werdende Produkt- und Technologiezyklen und komplexe Produktionsumfelder führen zu einer zunehmenden Dynamisierung von Fabriken. Die damit ein- hergehende häufige Veränderung der Prozess-, Organisations- und letztlich Kommunikationsstrukturen erfordern eine kontinuierliche und schnelle Reorganisation von Schnittstellen. Erfolgreiche Fabriken...

While growing, organizations as well as regional and urban systems have to master an increasing complexity of elements and processes. Usually, this comes parallel with a dynamization of the environment and stakeholder networks. Together, these factors build a huge network-system with a sensitive stability that has to be balanced by smart communicat...

Today, business organizations as well as regional and urban systems have to grow smart as well as sustainable and should, associated therewith, develop an intelligent dynamic. Short technology cycles, complex stakeholder networks and global competitions are just a few examples for factors requiring dynamic and retaining it in growth. But how can th...

Die zunehmende Dynamisierung des Produktionsumfeldes führt dazu, dass Fabriken permanenten Veränderungen unterliegen. Vor diesem Hintergrund ist es eine zentrale Herausforderung der Fabrikplanung, Fabriken kontinuierlich den Anforderungen anzupassen. Die zusätz- liche Adaption von Kommunikationsstrukturen wird dafür zunehmend zu einem Erfolgsfaktor...

Short product- and technology cycles as well as complex production networks lead to increasing dynamics in factories. The change of process-, organizational-, and communication structures requires a continuous as well as fast reorganization of interfaces. Successful factories distinguish themselves by their adaptability in the technical production...

The first part of the article presents current challenges to transportation and logistics management under the condition of changing retail and freight structures in the urban context. It lines out the necessity of a holistic approach recognizing divergent demands from transporation and logistics, ecology, and urbanism. As a center piece towards a...