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Call for Participation: Join the FirstAI4CITY Summer Workshop
Release time：2025-05-12
Call for Participation：
Join the FirstAI4CITY Summer Workshop
As generative AI rapidly reshapes our understanding of the urban world from mobility optimization and environmental monitoring to plans and design automation new interdisciplinary frameworks are urgently needed. Building on the success of the 2024 event, the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) at Tongji University will initiate and host the second AI4CITY Conference and the inaugural AI4CITY International Summer Workshop in July 2025, in collaboration with the International Association for China Planning (IACP) and the World Urban Planning Education Network (WUPEN), and in partnership with a wide network of universities and institutions from around the world.
The AI4CITY Summer Workshop is the first global program to focus specifically on the integration of Artificial Intelligence and Cities. It fosters problem-driven, cross-disciplinary collaboration and encourages the use of AI as a tool for exploring “more explainable, collaborative, and sustainable” urban futures. We warmly invite outstanding scholars, senior undergraduate students, master’s students, PhD candidates , as well as early-career researchers, from both AI-related and city-focused disciplines to join us in Shanghai for this summer initiative.
Themes
The 2025 AI4CITY Workshop centers on 6 thematic pillars that frame the AI-city nexus:
1. AI for Urban Cognition: Rethinking How We Perceive Cities
Investigating how multimodal data and semantic detection can reveal hidden spatial patterns and everyday urban dynamics.
2. AI for Urban Planning and Design: Towards Human–Machine Co-Creation
Exploring generative models in shaping urban form, enabling co-creation between human designers and machine agents.
3. AI for Urban Governance: Embedding Intelligence in Decision-Making
How can AI be integrated into the governance infrastructure of cities? This theme addresses the real-world use of AI for policy modeling, civic engagement, and decision support. At the same time, it interrogates the ethical dimensions of algorithmic governance, including questions of transparency, accountability, and inclusion.
4. AI for Urban Transportation: Intelligent Mobility for Complex Networks
This theme investigates AI-driven approaches to optimize urban mobility systems—ranging from traffic flow prediction and congestion management to route planning and autonomous transit. Participants will explore how AI models are transforming transportation infrastructure through real-time computation and behavioral modeling.
5. AI for Environmental Sustainability: Towards More Resilient, low-carbon and Greener Cities
Focusing on the intersection of AI and environmental resilience, this theme addresses how AI can support urban sustainability goals—from pollution detection and carbon accounting to climate adaptation and resource efficiency. Participants are encouraged to explore how AI can operationalize climate action in design and policy.
6. AI for Urban Public Health: Advancing Healthier, More Inclusive Cities
Urban health is shaped by both built environments and data ecosystems. This theme explores how AI technologies—such as predictive analytics, health monitoring, and behavioral modeling—can inform healthier cities, improve public health delivery, and respond to emerging risks across communities.
Schedule Overview
Dates
July 8–13, 2025 (6 days total)
Venue
College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University
Schedule at-a-Glance
July 8 AI4CITY International Conference & Opening Ceremony
Keynote speeches and academic forum with leading experts
July 9–
13
Workshop Studio Sessions & Evening Talks
Hands-on team-based design work, mentor-led tutorials, and nightly lectures
July 13
Final Presentations & Awards
Project showcase, feedback, and closing ceremony
Team Composition
We expect to form 5–8 interdisciplinary teams, each consisting of:
2mentors with interdisciplinary background,
5–6 graduate student participants
Confirmed collaborators include faculty and students from:
University of Pennsylvania, UCL, Arizona State University, Seoul National University, University of Kansas;
The University of Hong Kong, University of Macau;
Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and more.
The workshop is open to qualified applicants worldwide.
Who would Join
We welcome senior undergraduate students, master’s students and PhD candidates.
Urban Disciplines:
Urban Planning, GIS, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Transportation Engineering, Urban Management, Environmental Studies etc.
AI & Tech Disciplines:
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Guohao College etc.
Ideal candidates are:
Passionate about integrating AI and urban systems
Equipped with basic data modeling, python scripts and analysis skills
Comfortable working both in Chinese and English in international, interdisciplinary teams
How to Apply
Please send the following materials to
[nanali@tongji.edu.cn] by [June 10th, 2025]:
1. Your CV
2. A portfolio or technical showcase (e.g., design work, GitHub, data project, etc.)
3. A brief personal statement explaining your interest in AI4CITY or any related experience
Email subject line: “AI4CITY 2025 Workshop Application – [Your Name] – [Your University]”
Selected participants will be notified by [June 15th, 2025]
Logistics & Support for Invited Participants
Contact Us
Email: nanali@tongji.edu.cn,
liuchao1020@tongji.edu.cn
Phone: +86-21-65982345
Address: College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University
1239 Siping Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China, 200092
Website: https://upd-caup.tongji.edu.cn/main.htm
