Spatial Planning for Governance (SPG)
SPG: How we understand, organize and use our living environment, within a governance setting, where stakeholders —acting as a source of ideas and expertise, as clients, as co-designers or advocates of specific solutions— negotiate their relations while exploring, structuring and defining problems, as well as when designing potential solutions.
This thesis topic wants to explore how the design of public spaces can facilitate social interaction, and how ICTs can be used to i
Although large language models (LLM) have been around for a while, the public release of ChatGPT demonstrated a quantum leap in the abilities of these models to respond to natural
One of the aims of conservation and rewilding groups in Europe is to assess whether natural grazing l
Droughts are exacerbated by climate change, which makes them more frequent, prolonged, and catastrophic.
The topic can take several directions depending on the interest of the student.
ITC has been supporting UN-Habitat, the United Nations organization for urban development, since 2011 with the development and implementation of a regional urban planning approach
LINK TO RESEARCH PROJECTS
The MSc topics link to several ongoing larger research projects that allow being part of international research teams - both projects just started:
More and more cities are developing digital twins of their crucial public infrastructures.
Behind the many different data sources available to innovate geospatial technologies are large data infrastructures needed to produce and process geospatial data.
The so-called Right to Light in Great Britain, the European standard EN 17037 “Daylight in Buildings”, and similar design codes or standards of good practice provide recommendations for ensuring th