Participation
Participation is not a hearing at the end of the process. It is a design decision taken early: who gets to speak, about what, and with what weight?
Digitization does not just mean the use of digital technologies, but rather new forms of collaboration, organization and value creation. For this purpose, I advise and accompany organizations in the development process.
Citizen participation
Dare new ways of citizen participation. Together with experts from urban development, sustainability, information technology, organisational development and policy consulting, I support you in finding suitable communication and participation processes and implementing them technically, in terms of content and organization. I help municipalities, states, and civil society actors to professionally select and execute digital events and show what a new culture of participation can look like.
Further information can be found at digitale-buergerbeteiligung.de.
Thinking online and offline together
The smart use of technologies means a suitable mix of online-only, offline, hybrid formats. Depending on what makes the most sense and works best for your goals.
Services
For your participation process you get:
- Conception: Together we find suitable procedures for communication and participation, online, offline or hybrid.
- Event consulting: I advise you on choosing and running digital events.
- Process design: I plan the procedure technically, in content and in organisation.
- Process moderation: I moderate the participation process.
- Implementation: I run digital events with you.
- Technical support: I support you with the technology of your events.
- White / Green Paper: A written paper on your procedure.
The ValuesLab - Digital Ethics
Develop their own responses to the ethical ambiguities in digital product and service development. The Value Lab supports you in designing digital products and services in a value-sensitive way. Together with my colleague Dr. Saskia Dörr, I offer you an orientation framework and a set of methods for value-based digital design in a young subject area between business and society. You develop your solution space co-creatively.
As a result, you will receive an action set to consider value-driven digital design of products “from the beginning”. I offer various workshops for this purpose.
Target groups: Professionals who want to systematically deal with an ethical ambivalence present in practice in digital product and service design and who want to expand their methodological competence in the process. E.g. designers, developers, product managers, project managers, decision-makers, managing directors, technical or departmental managers and sustainability or CR managers. No prior IT or ethics knowledge is necessary to participate.
Further information can be found at wertelabor.de
In the ValuesLab you get:
- Consulting: I advise you on designing digital products and services with values in mind.
- Whitepaper: A written paper on values-based digital design.
- Workshops: With the method set you work out your own set of actions.
- Process design: Together we plan how values-oriented design flows into your product development “from the start”.
What you get
Decisions that hold
What is carried lasts longer.
Early feedback
Objections arrive while they are still cheap.
Access to knowledge
Participants know things that appear in no file.
No fig leaf
Meet the requirements and actually learn something.
Process
- 1
Clarify
What is genuinely negotiable? Sham questions do more harm than good.
- 2
Tailor
Format, audience, reach, effort.
- 3
Run
Moderated, documented, traceable.
- 4
Report back
What became of the contributions? This step decides about the next round.
Cost
Billed by person-day, as a senior consultant. I will tell you the day rate in our first conversation, together with an estimate of how many days your project needs. Both binding, before you decide.
Where the scope can be drawn clearly, I also offer a fixed price. I will tell you which of the two comes out cheaper.
Related services
Participation needs something tangible
A prototype makes abstract plans discussable, especially for people who do not read planning documents.