256I_Marcus Foth, Professor of Urban Informatics at Queensland University of Technology

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“Science has already fixed climate change. We know what’s causing it, we know what to do about it. The fact that there is paralysis is not the problem of science.”


Are you interested in listening to scientists? What do you think about the urgency of actions after scientific proof? How can we use the planetary indicators for better urban futures?


Interview Marcus Foth, Professor of Urban Informatics at Queensland University of Technology. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, urban visioning, declining cities, opportunities in health-arts-social sciences, donut economics, and many more.

Marcus Foth is a Professor of Urban Informatics in the School of Design and a Chief Investigator in the QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), Faculty of Creative Industries, Education, and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. For more than two decades, Marcus has led ubiquitous computing and interaction design research into interactive digital media, screen, mobile and smart city applications. Marcus founded the Urban Informatics Research Lab in 2006 and the QUT Design Lab in 2016. He is a member of the More-than-Human Futures research group. Marcus has published more than 270 peer-reviewed publications. He is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Distinguished Member of the international Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and currently serves on Australia’s national College of Experts.

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2 responses to “256I_Marcus Foth, Professor of Urban Informatics at Queensland University of Technology”

  1. […] using regulation, innovation, and market incentives to drive change. As Prof Marcus Foth described in episode 256 (What is The Future for Cities? podcast) we have the technology to solve climate change, science […]

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