Cities are dynamic environments and provide a living lab for addressing complex interdisciplinary challenges. City as Lab connects digital research with the people, places and policymakers of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. The ‘lab’ element refers to research done with a community, not to a community - City as Lab is about collaboration, active listening and shaping research agendas and projects with communities and partners in our city region.
Growing out of the university’s Digital Nottingham initiative, City as Lab helps researchers and local partners come together to co-create innovative and impactful projects that deliver people-centred, place-led change.
It facilitates collaboration through programme activities, small-scale project funding, the development of digital assets, and the opportunity for using new city-based facilities on the university’s Castle Meadow Campus.