Corporate Vision March 2017

CORPORATE VISION / March 2017 103 The Research Centre for the Future of Places ## Name: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tigran Haas, Director CENTRE FOR THE FUTURE OF PLACES (CFP) Tel: +46 8 790 8504 /Cell: + 46 73 765 0539 Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Twitter: twitter.com/tigranhaas Forum: http://futureofplaces.com/ Web: www.cfp.abe.kth.se g equity, quality of life, sustainability, climate change, rapid urbanisation, and other topics outlined in the ‘New Urban Agenda’ as identified by the United Nations in October 2016. The centre will conduct scientific research of the highest quality, and seek to make discoveries of useful new findings that will benefit the university, its partners and society as a whole. These findings will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals, through books and white papers, and through scientific symposia, round tables, and conferences. The scientific discoveries may include insights arising from new syntheses of existing knowledge, or from original research, or a combination. The goal will be to make discoveries in the general subject area of public space and behaviour: how public space shapes behaviour and in turn is shaped by it; how it offers beneficial opportunities for various kinds of behaviour (commercial, social, restorative, ecological, etc); and how public space is created, maintained, degraded or improved. Lessons will be drawn for specific challenges of rapid urbanisation, and implementation of the New Urban Agenda.