Program Overview
This unique course, utilizing LEGO® Serious Play, delves into the intricacies of smart city development. It explores essential topics like system integration, data management, and citizen engagement. Led by a seasoned smart city expert, the program empowers professionals in urban planning, government, and private sector to comprehend the multifaceted nature of smart cities and address the challenges of urbanization.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
A comprehensive and unique course, comprising training workshops in three levels, using LEGO® Serious Play. The course is benefited from LEGO® Serious Play methodology to maximise interaction among participants for conceptualisation, problem structuring, and facilitation of knowledge generation and sharing with metaphors and 3D design. In order to address these issues and for sustainable living in these fast-growing cities, changing the method of performing urban activities and functions is necessary, to provide agile and efficient services to the citizens in real-time. This can only be achieved by establishing a real inter-communication and seamless connection amongst all city sectors that create and deliver services. Developing smart cities has been proposed as a response to urbanisation challenges and changing citizens needs in the city sectors, such as human health, transport, infrastructures and energy to improve liveability standards. The training helps you comprehend the meaning of real smart city, its characteristics, and the requirements to develop it. However, the professionals listed below will be greatly benefited:
- Public Sector Professionals
- Urban planners
- City authorities / decision makers
- Mayors
- City councillors
- Smart city consultants
- Smart city advisors to the government/authorities
- Government leaders involved with new urban innovations
- Ministry leaders
- Urban innovation managers
- Policy makers
- Public-private Partnerships professionals
- Smart City project Managers
- Researchers, Students and Practitioners in smart city related topics
- Strategic Development Personnel
- Solution providers for smart cities
Tutor description
The course will be delivered by Dr Vahid Javidroozi, who has worked over seven years in smart city subject, especially city systems integration and city process change topics. Dr Javidroozi is currently a Senior Research Fellow working on various smart city related research projects such as a business process-centric framework for smart cities, so-called "FABS". As a member of Socio-technical research group, he also supervises various PhD, MSc and BSc dissertation projects related to smart cities. Moreover, he teaches smart city and process change related modules of computing and engineering courses. Furthermore, he is committee member of various Journals and conferences such as Smart Systems, Devices, and Technologies, IEEE smart cities. As a career academic, all the work he has done across systems engineering, smart city development, enterprise systems, and information systems contexts, link in one way or another on improving the integration of people, process, and technology to support well-being and enhance quality of life at all levels; as well as to inspire the community to broaden their knowledge of these domains. Many insights from his existing research projects and industrial experiences will inform his teaching and training programmes in smart city domains with the relevant and up-to-date knowledge.
Other:
The courses are full day events and there will be coffee breaks and lunch
etworking sessions. Hence, the participants would have opportunities to meet and discuss their research, projects, etc. during the courses.
