Healing Plant Space
Planting Reservation
System
The system provides basic digital support for planting activities in the Healing Plant Space. It helps the project team organize user participation, record reservation information, and support future activity planning and user experience optimization.
Learn More
Project Overview
This project is a sub-module developed by the Technical Team within the Sustainable Living Lab project. Its main task is to build a small online reservation webpage for plant planting activities.
The webpage provides users with a clear reservation entrance, allowing them to fill in basic information and choose between online and offline participation modes.
This project co-creates a climate-resilient, net-zero test house as a Sustainable Living Lab platform to supplement a campus. Sustainable Farm for sustainable experiential learning.
This project will bridge the gap between research, industry, and real-world practice through integrating interdisciplinary collaborators across diverse sectors including renewable energy, indoor planting, product design, and digital twin technology to advance climate action, food security, and social well-being.
The system provides basic digital support for planting activities in the Healing Plant Space. It helps the project team organize user participation, record reservation information, and support future activity planning and user experience optimization.
Aim & Vision
To build a 15 m² modular, net-zero test house featuring dual-indoor climate control that accommodates indoor planting and human inhabitants on the Sustainable Farm of University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC). This test house will serve as a real-world sandbox for students, faculty, industry, and the community to co-design and evaluate urban heat island mitigation strategies, sustainable food systems, and transformative learning models.
Methodology
Living Lab Framework: Co-design with users, industry and researchers through stakeholder workshops, systems thinking role-play, and world café methods.
Experimental Testing: Continuous monitoring of energy, climate, and performance.
Digital Twin Integration: Simulation, optimisation, cross-campus remote collaborative experimentation, immersive learning.
Mix-Methods Research: Quantitative (e.g. multidimensional technical performance monitoring and control, planting system efficiency monitoring with sensors) and qualitative (user experience research through surveys, reflective journals, etc.).
International collaboration: Joint student projects and comparative best-practice analysis with partners in Malaysia, Denmark, Sweden and China.
Industry collaboration through providing the facility as a testbed for industry’s innovations real-world testing.
Research & Innovation
Aiming to be a real-world experimentation platform for climate resilience and sustainable living technologies, the test house will serve as a living lab to enable applied research in:
- Energy-efficient building and HVAC optimisation
- Urban heat island mitigation strategies
- Renewable energy integration
- Insulation and façade systems
- Indoor environment quality and human comfort
- Food-water-energy sustainability optimisation
- Digital twin - virtual replica for thermal comfort simulation, building energy optimisation, and remote collaboration.