Around 20 members of Wolverhampton’s Youth Council helped showcase a
360° video at the ‘Our City, Our Future’ event in the Igloo at the National
Brownfield Institute (NBI) during the city’s Business Week last week.
The Igloo is a state-of-the-art immersive visualisation suite which works like a
giant Virtual Reality headset and, at nine metres in diameter, is the largest of
its kind in Europe, part of the top-class built environment facilities at the
University of Wolverhampton’s Springfield Campus.
The event followed the presentation in April of the Wolverhampton Investment
Prospectus - a living document of the city’s vision and future - to the City
Investment Board, on which members of the Youth Council also sit.
After seeing the promotional video that sits alongside the prospectus, Youth
Council members proposed the idea of creating a new version of it – but
reimagined from the perspective of young people.
This idea was further developed with invaluable input from the Youth Council
and morphed into the production of a new video, directed by Wolverhampton-
based Sam Davis, Company Director & Filmmaker at Henry Go Park the Car
Productions, to bring the prospectus to life.
Jaipal Uppal, Chair of the Youth Council, said: “It is interesting and exciting
that young people can attend and contribute to the City Investment Board.
“As members of the Youth Council we take this very seriously and always feel
like our views are listened to and that we can make a difference.
“It is great to see our idea to create this video become a reality and to be able
to see it in 360° in the Igloo is even better.
“We really hope it can be used to great effect to showcase the city and bring
in further investment – we have lots more ideas for how that investment could
be spent.”
