About us
Future Elements Studio (festudio) is a research and teaching group in the Department of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, at the University of Manitoba in Canada.
We inventory, monitor, and research the intricacies of human settlements, encompassing elements from individual trees, buildings, to cities and regional landscapes.
Our work uses geospatial analytics, cartography, and an array of sensing technologies such as optical remote sensing and laser scanning.
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December: Today we are excited to release the Buildings of Winnipeg dataset. This marks a significant step in our urban digital twin research. Read more here.
November: We are back with an existing lecture from Dr. Riccardo Tortini on advanced remote sensing and land monitoring. See you on Nov 22.
October: As part of our ongoing research on urban digital twin (UDT), this Winnipeg city-wide 2.5D urban tree dataset is now available to download.
September: We are excited to share the first version of a guide on digital arial photogrammetry thanks to our amazingly talented URA student researchers. Details here.
August: To celebrate and share what our amazing summer students have achieved, Dr. Mark Meager and our research lab are organizing a joint 3MT event. Details here.
August: Teegan and Kimia (welcome!) will be working with us this Fall, developing a categories of abstract landscape patterns. Thank you SoTL for supporting this project.
August: We thank Dr. Srilalitha Gopalakrishnanfrom FCL for giving us a talk on biophlic design and the BTS of iconic landscape architecture projects in Singapore.
July: Excited to have Haozhuo Yang from the Graduate School of Design (Harvard University) presenting his research on urban data and AI later this month. RSVP here.
June: We are delighted to be part of the summer research presentations happening at the FoA. Visit our new Gallery page to see some of the actions from our students!
May: A new teaching-oriented project has been funded by the SoTL with a focus on patterns and vocabulary. This is also in collaboration of our colleague Frits Van Loon.
April: We are excited to welcome two Undergraduate Research Awardees, thanks to the URA program. Brandan and Miguel will be working full time from May to August!
March: Our proposal to acquire a multi-spectral drone has been awarded by the SIEF grant. We look forward to working with friends and colleagues at the FabLab.
February: Yuhao becomes one of the newest working group members of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6.
February: We are growing! Kyra, Reece, and Zach from the Environmental Design program joined us to work on a funded project. Welcome!
January: We thank the University of Manitoba’s URGP program for providing a seed grant for our research on urban digital twins (UDT).
Januray: festudio welcomes Benjamin, Matthew, and Gel from the Department of Landscape Architecture. First three of many!
January: future elements studio (festudio.ca) begins now!
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Land acknowledgement
We are located on original lands of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Ojibwe-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Red River Métis.
We are grateful for being able to live, work, and play on these lands.
Video colourized point clouds of University of Manitoba’s Fort Garry Campus.
Proposed Level of Details (LOD) framework for multiple key urban elements