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Dr Alice Ojwang - Carbo AI: An Artificial Intelligence-Based Photographic Application to Support Dietary... (opens the original)
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IAS Residential Fellow Dr Alice Ojwang delivers a seminar on their research, fully titled "Carbo AI: An Artificial Intelligence-Based Photographic Application to Support Dietary and Lifestyle Education for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes" - Type 2 diabetes is a rapidly growing global health challenge, with dietary management central to its prevention and control. However, estimating the carbohydrate content of meals remains difficult, particularly for locally consumed foods. Carbo AI is an art
Professor Sergei Gepshtein - Searching for Humanity in the Forest of Abstractions (opens the original)
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IAS Guest Speaker Professor Sergei Gepshtein delivers a seminar on their research - A community of scientists and architects has been forming for years around the hope that the sciences of perception, cognition, and behavior could deepen architecture’s understanding of people. A significant literature emerged in support of this expectation. But the work remains marginal to both professions. One reason is that science and architecture hold incompatible abstractions of the person. For experimental
Colouring Cities & Urban Futures Collective (opens the original)
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Part of a week of activities for the IAS Research Summit - Rethinking Urban Inequalities. The morning will open with short showcases of two open-data initiatives — Colouring Cities (our local Loughborough chapter) and Urban Futures Collective (a global and international public-sector initiative) — presenting alternative models for building shared, participatory urban modelling infrastructure. This will lead into an expert panel, "Whose Data, Whose Future? Civic Mapping and the Ethics of AI in Cl
What is Global in Inequality? (opens the original)
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Part of a week of activities for the IAS Research Summit - Rethinking Urban Inequalities. This session will question what "global" means in the study and governance of urban inequality. Juliana Gonçalves will explore how space, knowledge, and technology intersect in shaping collective imaginaries. Jessica Espey will address the building of global observatories and the politics of comparability across contexts. A panel of speakers, including Dr Amalia Sabiescu, Dr Anze Zadel, Dr Viktor Bedo, will
Summit Opening: Setting the Scene on Inequality (opens the original)
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Part of a week of activities for the IAS Research Summit - Rethinking Urban Inequalities. This opening session lays out our collective provocation for the week: that computational approaches now sit at the centre of how urban inequality is studied and governed, often without interrogating who builds these tools, what they render visible, and who they serve. Following a collective framing exercise on what brings each participant to this work, five global fellows set the scene across two sessions,
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