The Cooling Singapore project aims to improve the city’s outdoor comfort by assessing the potential impacts of planning decisions, says SMU Associate Professor Winston Chow
SMU Office of Research & Tech Transfer – It’s known as the Urban Heat Island effect, the way big cities experience hotter outdoor temperatures than nearby rural areas.
The new economic climate requires businesses to be a part of a dynamic ecosystem where partners with different skills, capacities, networks and innovations create a powerful multiplier effect.
Leaders of today are looking to nurture a generation of problem-solvers who are as dynamic and resilient as the problems they seek to solve. Enter, Integrative intelligence. Or as some may call it, Interdisciplinarity 2.0. Individuals with this skill set are able to recognise the insights of one field as they relate to another and identify patterns that emerge across multiple domains; allowing them to better predict and respond to the future.
At the 27th Future of Asia conference in Tokyo in May 2022, conversations emerged about Southeast Asia’s role and capacity to contribute to global crises.
Digitalisation was the lifeline that pulled many countries through the turbulence of the pandemic, and nowhere else was this more evident than in the ASEAN region.
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On 11 August 2022, Mr Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara, Chief Executive Officer of Singapore’s state-owned investor Temase
