Duncan Wilson
@djdunc.bsky.social
“90’s AI”, sensing and emerging tech in the built and natural environment - Prof of Connected Environments @casaucl.bsky.social www.iot.io
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Interested in cities, places, connectivity, & planning? Applications are open for fully-funded UCL ESRC doctoral studentships through the UBEL partnership. The deadline is 10 November. See further details & eligibility criteria at ubel-dtp.ac.uk/postdoctoral... Contact bartlett.phd-ecidi@ucl.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Interested in cities, places, connectivity, & planning? Applications are open for fully-funded UCL ESRC doctoral studentships through the UBEL partnership. The deadline is 10 November. See further details & eligibility criteria at ubel-dtp.ac.uk/postdoctoral... Contact bartlett.phd-ecidi@ucl.ac.uk
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Make your Master’s matter.
A Master’s from UCL can take you further. Discover your potential at our graduate open events. 💻🌍
🔗 https://direc.to/nrqp
#UCLGraduateOpenEvents
A Master’s from UCL can take you further. Discover your potential at our graduate open events. 💻🌍
🔗 https://direc.to/nrqp
#UCLGraduateOpenEvents
October 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Make your Master’s matter.
A Master’s from UCL can take you further. Discover your potential at our graduate open events. 💻🌍
🔗 https://direc.to/nrqp
#UCLGraduateOpenEvents
A Master’s from UCL can take you further. Discover your potential at our graduate open events. 💻🌍
🔗 https://direc.to/nrqp
#UCLGraduateOpenEvents
Lovely to welcome our fifth cohort of students into CASA CE MSc programme - some pics from induction week www.iot.io/blog/2025/09...
Season 5 refresh
Another journey around the sun means it is time to start season 5 of the MSc Connected Environments. This time of year is busy as we try to close off the previous year and get ready for the new. It is...
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September 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Lovely to welcome our fifth cohort of students into CASA CE MSc programme - some pics from induction week www.iot.io/blog/2025/09...
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UCL alumnus Vishal Kumar has secured $2 million in seed funding for his startup Camera Intelligence, which is developing an AI-powered camera platform designed to simplify professional content creation. @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @uclenterprise.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...
UCL startup raises $2 million to revolutionise content creation with AI camera
A UCL alumnus has secured $2 million in seed funding for his startup Camera Intelligence, which is developing an AI-powered camera platform designed to simplify professional content creation.
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September 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
UCL alumnus Vishal Kumar has secured $2 million in seed funding for his startup Camera Intelligence, which is developing an AI-powered camera platform designed to simplify professional content creation. @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @uclenterprise.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...
"Switching off the theatres when not in use reduces energy consumption by a factor greater than the fractional reduction of time in use" New paper in Royal Society Interface from work last year supported by UCLPartners. cc @yrkalaji.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Towards NetZero for hospital operating theatres | Journal of The Royal Society Interface
Hospital operating theatre suites are a particularly resource- and energy-intensive
component of the health sector. Reducing their carbon footprint presents a significant
challenge due to the necessit...
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September 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
"Switching off the theatres when not in use reduces energy consumption by a factor greater than the fractional reduction of time in use" New paper in Royal Society Interface from work last year supported by UCLPartners. cc @yrkalaji.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
#ucldigifest today looking forward to exploring the digital twin, digital tech for education and the communities developing at UCL - @jamespjh.bsky.social getting us started
July 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
#ucldigifest today looking forward to exploring the digital twin, digital tech for education and the communities developing at UCL - @jamespjh.bsky.social getting us started
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Sense, Deploy, Communicate: Connected Environments MSc Show
18 July-03 August
1st Floor Galleries, UCL East Marshgate
Opening night: 17 July, 18:00-20:00
Join us later this month to enjoy Connected Environments MSc students' graduating projects at their final show.
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...
18 July-03 August
1st Floor Galleries, UCL East Marshgate
Opening night: 17 July, 18:00-20:00
Join us later this month to enjoy Connected Environments MSc students' graduating projects at their final show.
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...
July 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Sense, Deploy, Communicate: Connected Environments MSc Show
18 July-03 August
1st Floor Galleries, UCL East Marshgate
Opening night: 17 July, 18:00-20:00
Join us later this month to enjoy Connected Environments MSc students' graduating projects at their final show.
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...
18 July-03 August
1st Floor Galleries, UCL East Marshgate
Opening night: 17 July, 18:00-20:00
Join us later this month to enjoy Connected Environments MSc students' graduating projects at their final show.
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...
Day 3 CUPUM “like day 3 at Glastonbury” says @adamdennett.bsky.social so great to sit down to listen to the @casaucl.bsky.social legend Mike
June 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Day 3 CUPUM “like day 3 at Glastonbury” says @adamdennett.bsky.social so great to sit down to listen to the @casaucl.bsky.social legend Mike
Day 2 at CUPUM up next @fryrsquared.bsky.social and starting with a lovely game! Cc @casaucl.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Day 2 at CUPUM up next @fryrsquared.bsky.social and starting with a lovely game! Cc @casaucl.bsky.social
And here we go with CUPUM @casaucl.bsky.social great intro from conf chair @adamdennett.bsky.social and liking the hat tip to @digitalurban.bsky.social metaverse of posters.
June 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
And here we go with CUPUM @casaucl.bsky.social great intro from conf chair @adamdennett.bsky.social and liking the hat tip to @digitalurban.bsky.social metaverse of posters.
www.iot.io/blog/2025/06... New book from the @casaucl.bsky.social connected environments folk will be hitting shelves soon.
Cities in the Metaverse
Image from Cities in the Metaverse book cover by Andy Hudson-Smith This time last summer I was focusing on researching and writing a chapter on AI for the Cities in the Metaverse book with Andy and Va...
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June 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
www.iot.io/blog/2025/06... New book from the @casaucl.bsky.social connected environments folk will be hitting shelves soon.
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The window to register is closing! Lock down your attendance at CUPUM this year before this Saturday's deadline.
Registration for CUPUM 2025: Cloud Cities will close on 31 May. If you have signed up to present papers at this year's conference, but haven't yet registered to attend, don't miss the deadline!
Register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...
Register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...
CUPUM 2025 | The 19th International Conference on Computational Urban Planning & Urban Management
A global conference bringing together the international research community at the intersection of digital technologies, data science, urban planning and city shaping.
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May 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The window to register is closing! Lock down your attendance at CUPUM this year before this Saturday's deadline.
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Great blog by @djdunc.bsky.social describing drone surveying of flowers for pollinators near oilseed rape fields last week, in association with our pan-European WildPosh project www.iot.io/blog/2025/04...
Drone in a field
Spent a couple of days this week flying the new DJI Matrice 4E in Hampshire. The task was to capture orthomosaic data for the WildPosh Grand Challenge project and involved a fair bit of prep with lots...
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April 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Great blog by @djdunc.bsky.social describing drone surveying of flowers for pollinators near oilseed rape fields last week, in association with our pan-European WildPosh project www.iot.io/blog/2025/04...
Some notes on getting started with the DJI Matrice 4E www.iot.io/blog/2025/04...
DJI Matrice 4E
Continuing learning and preperation for capturing orthomosaic photos of fields in Wiltshire this week as a contribution into a UCL Grand Challenge project. We took delivery of the DJI Matrice 4E so th...
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April 20, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Some notes on getting started with the DJI Matrice 4E www.iot.io/blog/2025/04...
Term 2 complete and a lovely partial solar eclipse:
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S4T2 Completed
Term 2 came to a close with a week of final group project presentations, voting for the CE 2025 mug design, a last lecture on Dead IoT and a visit to the Hampstead Observatory to see the partial solar...
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March 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Term 2 complete and a lovely partial solar eclipse:
www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...
www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...
In the 80's Design Technology was my favourite A-Level - now watching my daughter enjoy it as much as I did - I would have loved to design a pavilion #D&T #designtech
March 30, 2025 at 9:40 AM
In the 80's Design Technology was my favourite A-Level - now watching my daughter enjoy it as much as I did - I would have loved to design a pavilion #D&T #designtech
Hello Robin. Only the second time this box in the garden has been used.
March 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Hello Robin. Only the second time this box in the garden has been used.
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It may feel as though we live in dark times, but here in the UK there are LOADS of science festivals celebrating ideas, sparking curiosity & sharing the latest research (for both adults & kids). Someone told me recently they didn’t know where to look, so I made a list. Here goes… [deep breath]:
1/8
1/8
March 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
It may feel as though we live in dark times, but here in the UK there are LOADS of science festivals celebrating ideas, sparking curiosity & sharing the latest research (for both adults & kids). Someone told me recently they didn’t know where to look, so I made a list. Here goes… [deep breath]:
1/8
1/8
www.iot.io/blog/2025/03... notes from the week
Transdisciplinary
One of those weeks where you don’t think you have got much done, but in reality many seeds have been planted. I seemed to have a week of meetings - starting with RIBA Festival of the Future, ending wi...
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March 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
www.iot.io/blog/2025/03... notes from the week
This weeks side project - orthomosiac experiment www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...
Orthomosaic
Nudged forward the work on exploring orthomosaics with the DJI mini 4. Mainly exploring the workflow with Agisoft Metashape Pro (we have a floating licence in the lab) and checking to see how well the...
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March 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This weeks side project - orthomosiac experiment www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...
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Congratulations to Prof Michael Batty, whose book The Computable City has won a prize at the recent #PROSEAwards (Professional and Scholarly Excellence). Prof Batty's book was named by @americanpublish.bsky.social as a joint finalist in the category for Architecture and Urban Planning.
March 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Congratulations to Prof Michael Batty, whose book The Computable City has won a prize at the recent #PROSEAwards (Professional and Scholarly Excellence). Prof Batty's book was named by @americanpublish.bsky.social as a joint finalist in the category for Architecture and Urban Planning.
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The Bartlett, UCL has been ranked the #1 place in the world to study architecture and the built environment for the third year in a row in The QS World Rankings by Subject 2025. We also remain #1 in the UK for the 11th consecutive year.
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March 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The Bartlett, UCL has been ranked the #1 place in the world to study architecture and the built environment for the third year in a row in The QS World Rankings by Subject 2025. We also remain #1 in the UK for the 11th consecutive year.
www.topuniversities.com/university-s...
www.topuniversities.com/university-s...
have been doing some more vibe coding this week www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...
Vibe Coding
Turns out there is a name for the thing I have been doing more and more over the past year. I have increasingly been turning to Gemini rather than Google when I am trying to work out how to write a li...
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March 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
have been doing some more vibe coding this week www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...
Glorious swim in the sunshine this lunch time at Park Road Lido in Haringey. Pity it is closed at prime time given the sunk costs of keeping this running.
March 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Glorious swim in the sunshine this lunch time at Park Road Lido in Haringey. Pity it is closed at prime time given the sunk costs of keeping this running.