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The urban environment is a complex system made up of interconnected socio-technical systems, such as transport, energy, and financial systems, as well as human and community networks. Rapid urbanisation and densification of popula-tion and infrastructure have led to the emergence of high-density urban systems, which tend to be vulnerable to disruptions and cascading failure.
Meanwhile, digitalisation has led to the evolution of infrastructure systems into cyber-physical systems. These physical systems have integrated data acquisition, analysis, and intelligent advisory abilities that interact with users and operators. This calls for new approaches to make these systems more resilient.
At the same time, to improve social resilience, we need to improve our sense-making capabilities and understand how humans and organisations interact. The development of mobile sensors and data science has made distributed cognition possible by acquiring data from human and technical systems in real time.
Future Resilient Systems (FRS) is the second research programme under the Singapore-ETH Centre, established by ETH Zurich and Singapore's National Research Foundation under its CREATE programme. It provides a cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural environment, bringing together researchers from engineering, social sciences, and design and planning disciplines from ETH Zurich, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Stevens Institute of Technology.