Co-Director of CiRe, Assistant Professor at NUS Department of Architecture
Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Public spaces, participatory urban planning processes, governance systems
- GIS, spatial statistics, big data, social network analysis
- Participatory data collection
- Data visualisation
Assistant Professor Chaewon Ahn is an urban researcher who studies the relationship between social systems and the built environment using urban data and analytical frameworks. Her research interests are formed through academic and professional experiences in architecture, urban design, data visualisation, and urban studies. Her research focuses on social networks and communities in cities; their relationship to the structure of the built environment; and the influences of urban planning programmes that engage them. Dr. Ahn uses analytical skills to conduct data driven analysis that primarily focuses on big data, participatory data collection,
LATEST
- Ignaccolo, C, Ahn, C. “ Sensing the Invisible City: Counter-Mapping and Critical Invisibility in Urban Design”, Urban Design International (under review)
- Ahn, C., Lotfi-Jam, F., Graham, C., Bunnell, T., & Marvin, S. (2025). Critical urban informatics for urban digital twin models. Nature Cities, 1-3.
- Ahn, C., Ignaccolo, C. and Salazar-Miranda, A. (2022) ‘Measuring the City: The Power of Urban Metrics’, Projections. Edited by C. Ahn, C. Ignaccolo, and A. Salazar-Miranda, Projections 16. Measuring the City: The Power of Urban Metrics (MIT Press).
- Kang, W.. Hwang, J., Shim, H., Ahn, C. (2020) Sewoon Urban Manufacturing Survey. Seoul, South Korea: Seoul Metropolitan government.
spatial analysis and social network analysis to expose persistent issues of power in urban development processes. Trained as an architect, urban designer and data visualisation designer, Asst Prof Ahn holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Master’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism from MIT. She is jointly appointed at the Asia Research Institute at the STS Cluster, and has previously worked with various research laboratories at MIT including the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism, the Civic Data Design Lab, the MIT Election and Data Science Lab, the JTL Urban Mobility Lab and the Senseable City Lab.
- Williams, S., Ahn, C. Gunc, H., Ozgirin, E., Pearce, M., Xiong, Z. (2019). Evaluating sensors for the measurement of public life: A future in image processing. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, DOI: 10.1177/2399808319852636
- Massaro, E., Ahn, C., Ratti, C., Santi, P., Stahlmann, R., Lamprecht, A. & Huber, M. (2016). The car as an ambient sensing platform [point ofview]. Proceedings of the IEEE, 105(1), 3-7.
- Ahn, C. (2015). Ma(i)cro visions : utilizing social network service datafor a transformational process of urban social spaces (S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture). Retrieved from http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582