David TOMAN | MaCI - Université Grenoble Alpes

David TOMAN

is an architectural historian and urbanist who operates at the nexus of community engagement and artificial intelligence. He is a Doctoral Researcher at Linacre College, University of Oxford, an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham and an Honorary Fellow at Swansea University. He is currently Senior Advisor in the UAE Prime Minister’s Office and is a former CEO of the King’s Foundation. David is a Chartered and European Engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a Fellow of the Energy Institute and a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining. He was also recently elected to the Worshipful Company of Engineers.

Project at the MaCI

An enhancement of community engagement in the built environment through the use of AI to democratise and engage the community in the planning process

June & September - November 2024

This project aims to build on existing community engagement methodologies such as the King’s Foundations Enquiry by Design process, and his research into the digitisation of historical mapping and the impact of urban trauma. David aims to use AI to further digitise the process to significantly increase access to these elite methodologies.

David aims to use his fellowship to explore the potential use of large language models (LLM’s) etc to help enable communities to guide developmement by learning from the historical community voice. He also intends to explore using AI to help visualise potential development options for communities. This is in the context of creating or recreating sustainable communities.

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Funded by the French government's Programme d'Investissement Avenir and implemented by ANR France 2030