You’ll be welcomed to the course and begin connecting with fellow participants, while exploring the navigation and tools of your Online Campus. Be alerted to key milestones in the learning path, and review how your results will be calculated and distributed.

You’ll be required to complete your participant profile and submit a digital copy of your passport/identity document.

Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during program development.

Learn to leverage technology to make the city of the future work like a small village of the past.

• Recall the history of urban communities and how human settlements have evolved over time
• Recognize the economic impact of transforming the way cities are designed
• Identify the challenges and opportunities society faces as a result of current city design
• Discuss how global challenges can be addressed by harnessing the current trend away from ownership and toward sharing
• Review a data-driven, evidence-based process for designing people-centric future cities
• Demonstrate why it is a societal imperative to address global challenges at a local level

Use data to understand the most efficient and sustainable ways for people to move around a city.

• Identify current mobility modes and patterns and the challenges they present
• Discuss the role of big data, and the privacy implications thereof, in modeling and improving current mobility patterns in cities
• Determine how emerging mobility modes and their attributes might provide solutions to challenges such as congestion and CO₂ emissions
• Compare new mobility modes that fall into three categories: personal systems, mass transit, and delivery
• Assess various mobility modes based on agent-based modeling data to improve mobility patterns and livability in an urban community
• Propose a solution to current mobility challenges by analyzing data about current mobility patterns, considering emerging mobility modes and their attributes

Explore technological innovation such as architectural robotics, AI, and new materials for urban living that will transform the way people live and work.

• Discuss the current challenges caused by a short supply of housing in urban centers
• Identify multifunctional, transformable, compact homes and innovative technologies within living spaces as solutions to the current urban housing crisis
• Articulate the privacy implications associated with the use of innovative technology in living spaces
• Show how reimagined work spaces and community-centered innovation districts can make cities more equitable, vibrant, and liveable

Discover how density, proximity, and diversity, together with a focus on connected communities, can create high-performance cities.

• Identify the importance of collecting data at a local level using the radar plot and its metrics
• Articulate how effective use of public spaces can bolster a community and improve quality of life
• Determine the impact of various interventions on density, proximity, and diversity in cities
• Justify your choices for prioritizing certain parameters for urban living-space design, using an evidence-based model
• Propose how you would receive buy-in from community members around the intervention you have decided to implement

Explore interventions and distributed systems that encourage communities to consume less resources and produce locally.

• Discuss time as a valuable resource in modern society
• Identify industries in which urban communities are consuming too much energy
• Determine how improvements in urban mobility, housing, workspaces, and production methods can result in energy conservation
• Deduce how the intersection of behavioral changes and technological interventions can decrease energy use in cities
• Assess the relationship between mobility modes, access to housing, and energy consumption using data

Explore future speculations on how new governance models, behaviors, and emerging technologies will facilitate healthier urban communities.

• Recognize how encryption and identity authentication can increase the autonomy of people living in urban communities
• Discuss privacy issues around autonomous technology and data use
• Articulate how blockchain technology and local token economies can incentivize and reward desirable behavior in urban communities
• Conclude whether or not algorithmic zoning can incentivize prosocial behaviors from landowners
• Evaluate effective land use and distributed systems as ways to reduce energy consumption
• Draft an outline of new governance models, behaviors, and emerging technologies that could provide sanitation, water, and electricity to an informal settlement