Brown Bag Lectures are informal, public talks that are followed by extensive dissussions. Speakers are KLI fellows or visiting researchers who are interested in presenting their work to an interdisciplinary audience and discussing it in a wider research context. The Brown Bag Lecture series was discontinued in 2014 with the KLI moving to its new premises in Klosterneuburg. In 2014 the KLI Colloquia were established as the new lecture series.
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This event is for invited participants only!
Urban Evo-Devo transfers knowledge from evolutionary developmental biology to urban morphology. We pioneer a new science of urban form evolution, by drawing from current theories of biological and cultural evolution (Pagel, 2009, 2012) as well as systems ecology (Holling & Goldberg, 1971). We build on concepts from evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), which offers a rich source of explanations for the individual development and collective evolution of complex systems.
Urban Evo-Devo builds on the largest existing dataset of a taxonomy of urban form, which describes and classifies numerically 100+M buildings in central Europe, by applying on them modelling techniques established in evolutionary biology to infer descent from similarity.
