The GreenTwins large pilot project was completed with great success at the end of August. GreenTwins developed digital participatory tools and processes and a dynamic green layer for Tallinn’s digital twin. The applications and tools developed in the project are used, for example, by the City of Tallinn, the European Green Capital of 2023.

To support citizen participation through the use of novel digital tools, GreenTwins has developed Avalinn, a Smart City Planning Hub, located in the city centre of Tallinn (Kaarli pst 1) and providing low-threshold access for all. Avalinn is a physical space equipped inter alia with state-of-the-art collaborative VR to facilitate digitally-enabled participation and collaboration in urban planning. This enables different stakeholders, regardless of their digital literacy, to engage in planning processes and decision-making. The city hub thus also forms an interface between citizens and the urban digital twin.

Several new research projects and further application developments are based on GreenTwins. Their focus is on digital and dynamic models of urban green spaces, simulation, nature-based and digital solutions, the digital twin of Tallinn, collaborative visualisation in VR as well as citizen science and more democratic processes in planning.
Within the GreenTwins project, the Academy of Architecture and Urban Studies established collaborations with new partners and expanded existing ones.
Watch our project video and learn more about the results:

Project duration: 2021-2023
Role: Project leader
Partners: Tallinn University of Technology, Academy of Architecture and Urban Studies, FinEst Centre for Smart Cities, City of Tallinn, Forum Virium Helsinki, Aalto University, High Performance Computing Centre Stuttgart (cooperation partner).
Funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research.