Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Rainer Noennig (Professur Digital City Science)
Digital City Science - Exploring Urban Systems
Digital City Science verbindet urbane und technologische Systeme. Unser Team entwickelt wissenschaftliche, datenbasierte Methoden zur Analyse und integrative Planung von urbanen Systemen. Dabei hat unser interdisziplinär ausgerichtetes Team viel Erfahrung und Kompetenz in den Bereichen Architektur, Stadt- und Raumplanung, Sozialwissenschaften, Medientechnik, IT und Softwareentwicklung. In Kooperation mit Partnern aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Verwaltung und Zivilgesellschaft entwickeln wir datenbasierte Werkzeuge und Methoden, die regional und international angewandt werden. Die interdisziplinären Aktivitäten der Digital City Science reichen von der Grundlagenforschung über angewandte Projekte bis hin zum Wissenstransfer in der akademischen Lehre und Ausbildung.
Schwerpunkte in Lehre und Forschung
Nachhaltige und digitale Stadtforschung: In Projekten wie SURE "Nachhaltige Entwicklung urbaner Regionen" oder dem Grasbrook City Scope untersuchen wir, wie zwei Megatrends der aktuellen Stadtforschung, die digitale Transformation von Städten und nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung, in einem wissenschaftlichen Rahmen zusammengedacht und zusammengeführt werden können.
Multi-layer Analysen urbaner Systemen: In Projekten wie Grasbrook City Scope (eine Kooperation mit dem MIT Media Lab) untersuchen wir, wie mehrere funktionale Schichten urbaner Systeme im Rahmen der aktuellen Stadtplanung analysiert und miteinander verknüpft werden können, z.B. Transport und Erreichbarkeit, Lärmemissionen und Regenwasserabfluss. Das zentrale Instrument sind dabei Agent-Based-Models.
Smartes Quartier und Smart Building Daten: In unseren Projekten zu Smart Buildings und Quartieren im Rahmen der Stadtentwicklung HafenCity und Kleiner Grasbrook sowie in Lehrveranstaltungen wie dem "Data Café" erkunden wir, wie Daten aus dem "Internet der Gebäude" für eine intelligente Stadtentwicklung genutzt werden können.
Globale Stadtentwicklung: In internationalen Kooperationen, u.a. mit der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), und dem Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) suchen wir nach neuen Ansätzen, wie die rasante Entwicklung von städtischen Ballungsräumen und informellen Siedlungen insbesondere im Globalen Süden und Südostasien durch Open-Source-Werkzeuge wie das "TOSCA Toolkit or Open and Sustainable City Planning and Analysis" unterstützt werden kann.
Seminare, Workshops, Lehre
Übersicht über die Digital City Science Seminare, Workshops, Lehre
Laufende Promotionsvorhaben
Neele Eicker: Participative Community Networks – Applications in the Indian Context
Taha Hatcha: Mobility as a Service system optimization and its data exploitation for city planning
Holger Prang: Generating Urban Soundscapes From Single Images
Kontakt
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Rainer Noennig
HafenCity Universität Hamburg
Henning-Voscherau-Platz 1
20457 Hamburg
Digital City Science online
Aktuelles
Scaling up HCU´s Urban Planning Toolkit in India
Digital Toolkit TOSCA supports integrated and sustainable urban development in four Indian Cities
A newly started cooperation project of HafenCity University and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH will implement the open source urban planning toolbox TOSCA in the Indian partner states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Telangana.
In the new cooperation project with GIZ and working on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the chair of Digital City Science at HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU) aims to support Indian cities in the field of climate-resilient planning and integrated land-use development.
Data-driven research project on real estate management comes to an end
NLP and geoparsing helps the Hamburg city government to optimize parcel finding procedures
(Mai 2023)
The research project LIG II comes to an end. Its main objectives were to include a geoparsing concept and build a semi-automatic process to analyse free text data. In addition to that, the LIG Finder web application was further developed – a prototype of it has been built in LIG I, which started in 2020.
LIG I and II were led by the research group Digital City Science with Prof. Jörg Nönnig as head of the team, based at HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU). It is a cooperation between the HCU and the Landesbetrieb Immobilienmanagement und Grundvermögen (LIG). The project began with focusing on building an interactive web tool for optimizing site selection.
TOSCA starts in Ecuador: strengthening local tech capacities in the region to address climate-related challenges.
(April 2023)
After the first pilot TOSCA project in 2019, the Digital City Science (DCS) at Hafencity University (HCU) Hamburg is renewing its cooperation with the GIZ GmbH and local partners from the city of Latacunga, Ecuador, to deepen on the technical capacities of the local team and further enhance the take-up and integration of the tool, both in academia and governance instances.
Hightech for Smart Social Strategies
Research cooperation between HCU Hamburg and Technion – The Israel Institute of Technology
(April 2023)
The Smart Social Strategies Lab at Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and the chair of Digital City Science at HCU Hamburg have initiated a research cooperation on digital interactive technologies in the field of sociospatial urban development.
At the beginning of 2023, a first ignition phase for an envisioned long-term research partnership between Technion and HCU has been successfully accomplished. Supported with an incentive funding from HCU, first joint activities of research groups in both institutions have been carried out over a period of 1 year, including scientific visits, joint workshops and conferences. Partner at Technion is the the Smart Social Strategy Lab (3SL) directed by Prof. Meirav Gutman, an interdisciplinary group that investigates the usage of geographical and sociographical data for urban strategy- and policy-making. Methodically and technologically, the group´s research complements very well with interactive planning technologies that are created at the chair of Digital City Science (Prof. Jörg Rainer Noennig) at HCU Hamburg. The cross-connection of both approaches opens up promising opportunities for supporting the planning of urban neighbourhoods with state-of-the-art tools and methodologies. On HCU side, the cooperation was coordinated by Dr. Jan Barski und Dr. Filipe Mello Rose. The overall goal was to explore first topics for a common research agenda on which both institutions will join forces in the next years. Joint publications and funding applications for example to the German-Israeli-Fund have prepared a solid basis for various future cooperation in which Technion´s spectacular Hadar Interaction Theatre – a large scale facility for digital citizen participation – will play a key role.