Using Low-cost, Research-led, Decentralised Networks to Increase Access to High Quality Microspatial Data on Building Stocks, and the Built and Natural Infrastructure

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• Polly Hudson, Senior Research Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute
• Friday 14 February 2025, 13:00-13:55
• FW11, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

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Abstract

The Colouring Cities Research Programme (CCRP) is overseen by an informal, international academic consortium that uses its decentralized research-led network, to co-create and manage, permanent open data/visualisation platforms across countries. These provide standardised, open microspatial data on the characteristics, performance, and short/long-term dynamics of building stocks and built and natural infrastructure. They also test feedback loops between live streaming, computational inference, and crowdsourcing approaches to improve coverage and reliability of data and to support cross-sector/multidisciplinary engagement. Research Institutions from 30 countries are currently involved. The programme has been set up to accelerate progress towards UN SD Gs; to provide access to big data required to exploit the potential of AI & ML and gain insights at scale; to reduce research costs and overlaps and speed up the testing of research applications by pooling expertise, funding and ideas, and; to ensure that areas such as data standardisation, uncertainty in data, and citizen privacy and security are prioritised, as commercial demand for microspatial data grows.

Bio

Polly Hudson is a Senior Research Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute and PI for the Colouring Cities Research Programme. She was previously a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis University College and held a Visiting Fellowship at the Kellogg Centre for the Historic Environment, University of Oxford. Relevant appointments include advisory/board positions for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, English Heritage, The Royal Institute of British Architects, and the National Lottery (charitable arm).

Polly trained as an architectural historian and initially worked in furniture making, historic building restoration, museum design, and community planning. In 1996 she set up the Building Exploratory charitable trust in London as a prototype for multidisciplinary knowledge-sharing centres about local building stocks, which was co-built over 6 years by citizens, local and central government, industry, non-profits & academia. The first iteration of the Colouring Cities mapping platform interface was tested in 1998. Between 2014 and 2019 Polly received EPSRC funding from UCL to develop the CCRP concept within academia where she partnered with Tom Russell who built the back and front end for the London prototype & advised on open licences. Since 2020 her position as CCRP PI has been funded by The Alan Turing Institute.

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