Motivating ownership and participation in public spaces

Humans have evolved with a strong sense of territory. As a result, the public spaces humans share - like a simple streetscape - often sees confrontational and un-accommodating behaviour. When we think of such conflicting and chaotic realities, we are demotivated and discouraged. This decreases our empathy and tolerance for collective intelligence.

This workshop motivates stakeholder centric solutionising and participatory intelligent action. We use physical, territorial visualizations (as elaborated on the Miro attached) as well as dynamic digitized visualizations that change as deliberations take place over the length of the workshop. Each attendee roleplays a stakeholder to a problematic territory (a streetscape). They are given a docket with their personal roles - describing their persona, their incentives, motivations and red-lines. Using this background information, each stakeholder participates in constructive deliberation. This dialogue is directed by three of us (a practising UX designer/ Anurag Nair, urban planner/ Romit Sinha and participative policymaker/ Vashishth Doshi) with inputs on subject matter AND, exciting ad-hoc events that keep the deliberations agile.

As the discussion carries, the digital playground will dynamically update with changes to everyone’s respective territories (shares) within the treemap. Every hour we will have the attendees update their shares in the physical representation of the digital playground. This motivates a very personal interaction to territories - and human evolutionary thinking. Using this format, we hope to converge everyone to collective intelligence.