Federico Cugurullo is Associate Professor in Urban Geography at the National University of Singapore. He is also Associate Professor in Smart and Sustainable Urbanism at Trinity College Dublin. His research combines geography and philosophy to shed light on the evolution of cities, focusing on the ideologies that drive urbanization, such as sustainability and smartness, and on the spaces that they eventually produce. During the past decade, Federico has operated interdisciplinary at the intersection of urban geography and philosophy of technology, to theorize artificial intelligence (AI) from an urbanistic perspective and investigate its impact on cities. In so doing, he has developed the concept of urban AI, and conducted extensive empirical research, particularly in the Middle East and Asia, to analyze how AI is changing the nature of the contemporary city. His theories include explanations about the emergence of a post-smart city trajectory leading to AI urbanism, and a disquisition on the eclipse of reason in the age of AI. His empirical studies comprise detailed analyses of the use of urban AI as it affects urban sustainability. Federico is the author of Frankenstein Urbanism (Routledge 2021), and a co-editor of Artificial Intelligence and the City (Routledge 2023).
