Digital twins (DT) are increasingly appearing in landscape design projects, from major project briefs through to local council strategies and project promotions. Imbued with the promises of greater efficiencies and adaptable feedback, DTs are often touted as the next generation of data-driven solutions to climatic, environmental, ethical and social decision-making. But can they live up to these claims? While data and technology are increasingly available, when it comes to questions of culture, society and ethics, the quality and depth of that data are highly variable. Further, we have heard many of these claims before: big data, smart cities and BIM have all previously promised to revolutionize how we work and live.
What are digital twins?
A DT is a detailed model (sometimes called a living model) of part of the real world that also includes information about how a product
