'City as Lab' collaboration wins award for innovation offering digital vision of Nottingham

A state-of-the-art 3D tool, which is helping to drive transformation and modernise city planning, has won a prestigious Geography in Government 2024 award for outstanding innovation.

The University of Nottingham’s City as Lab initiative in a collaboration led by Nottingham City Council funded by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, won the Innovation Category and was named Overall Winner across all categories as part of this year’s Geography in Government Awards for the project ‘A 3D Digital Twin for Nottingham: Transforming an Ambitious Vision into Virtual Reality.’

City as Lab co-designed and hosts the large-scale Projection Augmented Relief Model (PARM) of Nottingham, led by Dr Gary Priestnall of the university’s School of Geography, whose contribution was fundamental to the team who will accept the award presented at the Royal Geographical Society’s annual ceremony on 3 June.

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