City as Lab provides friendly space on Castle Meadow Campus for project and engagement activities, interaction with partners, exhibition and showcasing. We prioritise use for place-led research and knowledge exchange engaged with the Nottingham city region.
In collaboration with Nottingham City Council, City as Lab also hosts the Nottingham Urban Room, a neutral meeting space where people can come together to understand, debate and get involved in the past, present and future of the Nottingham city region.
City as Lab has a ‘Collaboration’ area that can accommodate between 30-50 people (with chairs/tables or chairs only) and a ‘Curiosity’ area for displays, networking and informal engagement. The space is equipped with two high-spec GPU computers, mobile display screens, ideation zones, project desk space and flexible exhibition and demo areas.
We also offer unique ‘Digital Nottingham Assets’ (below) for researchers and their collaborators to harness and visualise place-based data.