Nan Bai

Nan Bai
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  • Doctor of Philosophy
  • Professor (Assistant) at Delft University of Technology

Data Science and AI Post-doc Research Fellow Wageningen University and Research

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Introduction
Nan Bai currently works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of AE+T at Delft University and Technology. With a multi-disciplinary background in architecture, psychology, heritage studies, big data analysis, and applied artificial intelligence, Nan always has a broad interest in the application of computational social science in historic urban settings with heritage values and attributes, especially the perceptions reflected from the posting behavior on social media.
Current institution
Delft University of Technology
Current position
  • Professor (Assistant)
Additional affiliations
October 2023 - October 2024
Delft University of Technology
Position
  • Guest Researcher
October 2023 - February 2025
Wageningen University & Research
Position
  • Postdoc Researcher
December 2022 - March 2023
University College London
Position
  • Visiting PhD Student
Description
  • Visiting PhD researcher at the SpaceTimeLab
Editor roles
Education
October 2019 - October 2023
Delft University of Technology
Field of study
  • Heritage and Values
October 2017 - July 2019
Technische Universität Berlin
Field of study
  • Architecture
September 2016 - July 2019
Tsinghua University
Field of study
  • Architecture

Publications

Publications (33)
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The purpose of the MANILA24 Workshop on information retrieval for climate impact was to bring together researchers from academia, industry, governments, and NGOs to identify and discuss core research problems in information retrieval to assess climate change impacts. The workshop aimed to foster collaboration by bringing communities together that h...
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Cultural heritage, especially those inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, is meant to be valued by mankind and protected for future generations. Triggered by radical and sometimes disastrous Heritage-Related Events (HREs), communities around the world are actively involved on social media to share their opinions and emotional attachments. Th...
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Climate change is a heated discussion topic in public arenas such as social media. Both texts and visuals play key roles in the debate, as they can complement, contradict, or reinforce each other in nuanced ways. It is therefore urgently needed to study the messages as multimodal objects to better understand the polarized debate about climate chang...
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We propose a mathematical framework for developing social-choice games that are designed to mediate decision-making processes for city planning, urban area redevelopment, and architectural configuration of urban housing complexes. The proposed framework features a digital serious gaming approach for participatory design to support transparency and...
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How can we assess the ergonomic comfort of a sizeable spatial configuration such as the indoor space of a complex building or an urban landscape when we design, plan, and manage the space? Is there a fundamental difference between indoor [architectural] spatial configurations and outdoor [urban] spatial configurations with respect to ergonomics? Ca...
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This chapter presents methodological reflections on the necessity and utility of artificial intelligence in generative design. Specifically, the chapter discusses how generative design processes can be augmented by AI to deliver in terms of a few outcomes of interest or performance indicators while dealing with hundreds or thousands of small decisi...
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Social Inclusion has been growing as a goal in heritage management. Whereas the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) called for tools of knowledge documentation, social media already functions as a platform for online communities to actively involve themselves in heritage-related discussions. Such discussions happen both...
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We present a multi-actor interactive framework for collaboratively forming multi-functional urban building complexes, e.g. in the context of mixed-use housing developments. We propose mechanisms for a mathematical social-choice game that is designed to mediate decision-making processes for city planning, urban area redevelopment, and architectural...
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Mapping cultural significance of heritage properties in urban environment from the perspective of the public has become an increasingly relevant process, as highlighted by the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL). With the ubiquitous use of social media and the prosperous developments in machine and deep learning, it has...
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The UNESCO 2011 Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape promotes to map cultural significance of urban heritage from the perspectives of the general public in pursuit of social inclusion in heritage management. The user-generated information already available on social media platforms in the form of images, comments, and ratings can be consi...
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Values (why to conserve) and Attributes (what to conserve) are essential concepts of cultural heritage. Recent studies have been using social media to map values and attributes conveyed by the public to cultural heritage. However, it is rare to connect heterogeneous modalities of images, texts, geo-locations, timestamps, and social network structur...
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The Supplemental Materials of the manuscript Investigating rural public spaces with cultural significance using morphological, cognitive and behavioural data. The full research data could be accessed on 4TU Research Data Repository: https://doi.org/10.4121/13564292.v2.
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During the rural [re]vitalization process in China, national strategies required rural public spaces with cultural significance to be identified before planning decision-making. However, places identified as culturally significant by planners and visitors can differ from the ones mostly used and valued by locals. Even if there is a growing interest...
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Values (why to conserve) and Attributes (what to conserve) are essential concepts of cultural heritage. Recent studies have been using social media to map values and attributes conveyed by public to cultural heritage. However, it is rare to connect heterogeneous modalities of images, texts, geo-locations, timestamps, and social network structures t...
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The UNESCO World Heritage List (WHL) includes the exceptionally valuable cultural and natural heritage to be preserved for mankind. Evaluating and justifying the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) is essential for each site inscribed in the WHL, and yet a complex task, even for experts, since the selection criteria of OUV are not mutually exclusive....
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Social inclusion has grown as an important goal for heritage planning over the past decades. Whilst the document Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape called a decade ago for novel tools for civic engagement and knowledge documentation, social media already functions as a platform for online communities to actively get involved in heritage...
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The Statements of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) concerns the core justification for nominating and inscribing cultural and natural heritage properties on the UNESCO World Heritage List, ever since 2007. Ten criteria are specified and measured independently for the selection process. The 2008 ICOMOS Report “What is OUV” has been a successful exa...
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The UNESCO World Heritage List (WHL) is to identify the exceptionally valuable cultural and natural heritage to be preserved for mankind as a whole. Evaluating and justifying the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of each nomination in WHL is essentially important for a property to be inscribed, and yet a complex task even for experts since the crit...
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Focusing on the quality of reuse of buildings with respect to the efficiency of human movement patterns and the effectiveness of allocation of functional spaces with respect to their needs for social encounter and avoidance reveals the configurative nature and the human impact of architectural design. By comparing such functionality assessments bef...
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The paper reports the formulation, the design, and the results of a serious game developed for structuring negotiations concerning the redevelopment of a university campus with various stakeholders. The main aim of this research was to formulate the redevelopment planning problem as an abstract and discrete decision-making problem involving multipl...
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As one of the most important areas in the Palace Museum, Beijing, China, the Hall of Mental Cultivation had suffered from overcrowding of visitors before it was closed in 2016 for conservation. Preparing for the reopening in 2020, the Palace Museum decided to take the chance and initiate finer-grained tourism management in the Hall. This research i...
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In ancient China, villages had always been the most important place for people to settle and work. As the urbanization process in China gets faster and the information technology spreads wider recently, the built environment and the social structure are going through marvelous changes, making the preservation of village heritage an urgent issue in...
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In ancient China, villages had always been the most important place for people to settle and work. As the urbanization process in China gets faster and the information technology spreads wider recently, the built environment and the social structure are going through marvelous changes, making the preservation of village heritage an urgent issue in...
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Rural Vitalization being a nationwide policy for China in the following five years, it is becoming even more important to preserve and conserve the village heritage, especially with the global background of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) involvement. This research reviews on the existing and potential methods which has been or could...
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Rural Vitalization being a nationwide policy for China in the following five years, it is becoming even more important to preserve and conserve the village heritage, especially with the global background of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) involvement. This research reviews on the existing and potential methods which has been or could...
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How to support the implementation of green transportation through the establishment of a friendly walking environment around the subway station area is a topic of concern for many experts and scholars in recent years. This study focuses on the pedestrian environment around the subway stations, building the spatial patterns around the station areas,...
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As we step into a new data-based information age, it is important to get citizens involved in the whole design process. Our research tries to build up a user-based urban information system by collecting the data of neighborhood land use preference from all the residents through gaming. The result of each individual decision will be displayed in rea...
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Quantitative studies using the corpus Google Ngram, namely Culturomics, have been analyzing the implicit patterns of culture changes. Being the top-standard prize in the field of Architecture since 1979, the Pritzker Prize has been increasingly diversified in the recent years. This study intends to reveal the implicit pattern of Pritzker Winners us...
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The triumph of the revolution lead by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara brought the national concept which can be called 'Imagined Community' to the last old-time Colony in South America, Cuba, bringing some atmosphere of change to this land, as well. On one hand it was the complex characteristic of rationality and rebelliousness which is naturally incl...
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Architectural space functioning, as a crucial component of urban life, every citizen, whether related to architecture profession or not, has his or her unique judging principles as space consumer. This research tried to explore the differences of judging between different professional backgrounds when individuals face and assess the architectural s...

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