🌍 LDT Experience Builder

Make Local Digital Twins easy, joyful and useful — right now

A Local Digital Twin earns its keep the moment a citizen, a city or a community can act on it. This page follows that route: why it matters, a use case you recognise, and the tool that does the work. Sovereign by design, open by construction.

5Pilot cities across two EU programmes
40+Harmonised data layers across those cities
3OGC API endpoints delivered in the Geonovum testbed

🔍 Don't take our word for it

Three claims on this page can be checked without asking us anything.

✨ Where to start

1. Start with why it matters

The impact views show what changes for citizens, cities and communities, before any architecture.

2. Pick a use case you recognise

Mobility, energy, heat, flood, air quality or aviation. Each one is a concrete way in.

3. Open a tool

Every tool opens with a plain explanation and why it matters.

4. Follow the references

Working references for the examples on this page.

💚 People first

Impact first: citizens, cities and communities

Use these tabs as your first speaking moment. They turn the Builder into a benefit-led story before anybody sees architecture, standards or implementation detail.

What people see
Their street, not a system diagram
  • 3D views and maps that make neighbourhood change understandable.
  • A simpler route from “what is happening here?” to “what can we improve together?”
What people gain
Trust + relevance
  • Better explanations of mobility, energy, air quality and climate trade-offs.
  • More confidence that decisions are grounded in visible evidence.
What to say live
“This is about daily life”
  • Greener streets.
  • Less heat stress and cleaner air.
  • Safer, more resilient places to live and move.
What cities need
A practical decision-support flow
  • Access data.
  • Configure use cases and scenarios.
  • Execute models.
  • Visualise and monitor outcomes.
What cities gain
Less fragmentation
  • One integrated environment to discover and open tools.
  • Single sign-on and connected workflows across the toolbox.
What to say live
“This lowers the barrier to action”
  • Faster navigation across tools.
  • Clearer handover from data to scenarios to maps to impact tracking.
What communities need
To co-create, not just watch
  • Participation spaces, meetings and dashboards that make input visible.
  • A workshop flow that translates shared priorities into a practical prototype path.
What communities gain
Collective ownership
  • A clearer bridge between local needs, open source tools and reusable city recipes.
  • A more social route from pilot to commons.
What to say live
“The ecosystem becomes discussable”
  • People can understand the journey.
  • Communities can see where they fit.
  • The technology starts to feel usable.
🛤️ Participatory flow

The Builder journey — kept from v6, made easier to demo

The earlier Experience Builder used a six-step participatory journey. This event version keeps that structure and makes each step easier to understand at a glance.

0

Preparation

Select a use case, define the territory, form the team and start from shared context.

1

Social value

Who benefits, what problem matters, and why the project matters in people’s lives.

2

The challenge

Break the challenge into activities, decisions, data needs and opportunities for evidence.

3

Stories + tech

Translate citizen and city stories into scenarios, services, data, models and interfaces.

4

Complete the use case

Assemble the shared understanding into a practical, replicable use case.

5

Prototype + learn

Activate tools, test a path, gather feedback and improve through a visible learning loop.

🎯 Clickable use cases

Choose a challenge the room can relate to

These cards are designed as quick audience hooks. Every card jumps to a matching story anchor or tool area so the buttons always do something useful in a live demo.

🧰 Tool explorer

Toolbox Explorer — every button opens content

Every tool in the toolbox becomes a live demo button here, with a plain explanation, “why it matters”, suggested speaking lines and optional working links.

🏙️ Pilot-flavoured storytelling

Story cards you can say out loud

These are intentionally simple. They help you keep the demo focused on lived outcomes rather than platform complexity.

🔋 Almelo / Aadorp

Positive Energy District planning and sustainable living are repeatedly positioned as core examples in the 3DxVERSE and event materials.

energyneighbourhoodplanning3DxVERSE

Live line: “This helps a neighbourhood see retrofit, energy and rooftop choices more clearly, together.”

🚗 Hamburg

Mobility and emissions monitoring are used as a concrete route to making cleaner travel and better decisions easier to discuss.

mobilityCO₂route choices3DxVERSE

Live line: “This helps cities make mobility trade-offs visible instead of abstract.”

✈️ Aruba

Airport operations, tourism and CO₂ are framed as a citizen-impact and sustainability story, not only an operational one.

aviationtourismCO₂3DxVERSE

Live line: “This makes airport sustainability feel understandable to more than airport specialists.”

🌿 Cartagena

Cartagena leads the EUTwinLink pilot in LDT4SSC, carrying the Positive Energy District work and the question of how one city’s learning travels to another.

PEDcollaborationscalingLDT4SSC

Live line: “This is also about how one city’s learning can travel to another city more easily.”

What this page is for

  • It follows a participatory, step-based route that stays readable for non-technical audiences.
  • It gives every major on-screen control a useful destination: internal navigation, tool modal or working external link.
  • It leads with citizen, city and community value before architecture or standards.
  • It is a single self-contained HTML file: save it and it still works offline, with no account and no platform.
Tip: open this file in a browser and keep the Toolbox Explorer visible. That gives you the fastest “show me something real” response during audience questions.