Imperial Lates: Future Cities

Tuesday 11 March | 18.0021.00

A man and a woman interacting with an exhibit at Imperial Lates
A map of the Imperial Lates event

Talks

8 Speakers' corner: the women shaping
tomorrow’s cities

18.30–18.50: How London must deal with the
climate change threat (Tiva Montalbano)
19.10–19.30: Ending city traffic with AI
(Fangce Guo)
19.50–20.10: Going underground: greener
urban construction (Catherine O’Sullivan)
20.30–20.50: The future of urban nature
(Alex Collins)

9 London laughs

18.50–19.25: Nature-smart cities (Alex Collins)
20.05–20.40: Summer in the city: cooling the
urban heat island (Ziyan Zhang)

13 How to avoid London's dirtiest air

18.45–19.10, 19.35–20.00 and 20.25–20.50

22 Rewilding London - are beavers just the start?

18.40–19.30

23 The small engineering miracles that build our cities

20.05–20.50

Two women in a lecture theatre listening to a talk
A woman interacting with a large string web at Imperial Lates

Workshops

6 Spaghetti skyscrapers

7 Grow your own mushrooms

18.25–19.00, 19.25–20.00 and 20.25–21.00

10 Street dance for beginners

18.35–19.00, 19.25–19.50 and 20.15–20.40
Performance at 20.45

12 Cardboard city

15 Future flows: connecting with urban water

Exhibits

1 Rank air on the tube

2 Kiacrete: a puddle-free pavement

3 Functional building materials

4 Displaying urban air pollution

5 Autonomous automobiles

11 Window box wildlife havens

14 Building blocks for future cities

16 Going underground: greener urban construction

17 Green concrete

18 Beaver fever

19 Downtown decarbonising

20 The AI decongestion zone

21 Book signing: Roma the Engineer

22 Subatomic city

A man and a woman laughing and interacting with an exhibit
A man wearing headphones and dancing at a silent disco

Timed events

7 Grow your own mushrooms

18.25–19.00, 19.25–20.00 and 20.25–21.00

8 Speakers' corner: the women shaping
tomorrow’s cities

18.30–18.50: How London must deal with the
climate change threat (Tiva Montalbano)
19.10–19.30: Ending city traffic with AI
(Fangce Guo)
19.50–20.10: Going underground: greener
urban construction (Catherine O’Sullivan)
20.30–20.50: The future of urban nature
(Alex Collins)

10 Street dance for beginners

18.35–19.00, 19.25–19.50 and 20.15–20.40

22 Rewilding London - are beavers just the start?

18.40–19.30

13 How to avoid London's dirtiest air

18.45–19.10, 19.35–20.00 and 20.25–20.50

9 London laughs

18.50–19.25: Nature-smart cities (Alex Collins)
20.05–20.40: Summer in the city: cooling the urban heat island (Ziyan Zhang)

23 The small engineering miracles that build our cities

20.05–20.50

24 Street dance pop-up performance

Join us by the DJ booth at 20.45

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