Events

KLI Colloquia are informal, public talks that are followed by extensive dissussions. Speakers are KLI fellows or visiting researchers who are interested in presenting their work to an interdisciplinary audience and discussing it in a wider research context. We offer three types of talks:

1. Current Research Talks. KLI fellows or visiting researchers present and discuss their most recent research with the KLI fellows and the Vienna scientific community.

2. Future Research Talks. Visiting researchers present and discuss future projects and ideas togehter with the KLI fellows and the Vienna scientific community.

3. Professional Developmental Talks. Experts about research grants and applications at the Austrian and European levels present career opportunities and strategies to late-PhD and post-doctoral researchers.

  • The presentation language is English.
  • If you are interested in presenting your current or future work at the KLI, please contact the Scientific Director or the Executive Manager.

Event Details

KLI
KLI Special Event
Urban Evo-Devo: Starting the Glossary
Glossary Event
2025-10-01 12:00 - 2025-10-03 12:00
KLI
Organized by Sergio Porta (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow) & Philipp Mitteroecker (KLI & University of Vienna)

Urban Evo-Devo transfers knowledge from evolutionary developmental biology to urban morphology. We pioneer a new science of urban form evolution, by drawing from current theories of biological and cultural evolution (Pagel, 2009, 2012) as well as ​​systems ecology (Holling & Goldberg, 1971). We build on concepts from evolutionary developmental biology ​​(evo-devo), which offers a rich source of explanations for the individual development and collective evolution of complex systems.

Urban Evo-Devo builds on the largest existing dataset of a taxonomy of urban form, which describes and classifies numerically 100+M buildings in central Europe, by applying on them modelling techniques established in evolutionary biology to infer descent from similarity.