Cross-Border Pilot with Prague

Challenge: How to engage the citizens in participatory planning?

KU Leuven – Breaking Boundaries with Situated Surveys

As cities become denser and more diverse, it is simultaneously more important and more challenging to ensure inclusive and participatory decision-making. While the advantages of citizen participation are generally accepted, such as improving the quality and sustainability of decisions by building bottom-up support, how to effectively facilitate this remains unclear. What is certain is that existing methods to facilitate citizen engagement pose many barriers, particularly to vulnerable communities. 

This pilot proposes to enhance engagement by bringing it directly to people and into the urban space where change is already happening, including a broader and more diverse people in the urban planning process. As the project aims to engage hard-to-reach citizens and tackle contextual urban planning challenges, right from the ground, it will further validate this and co-create the deployment of Citizen Dialog Kit survey devices in three different European cities.