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15min-City online Maps

The map shows how close services are if one lives in different areas of the city: in red areas the time needed to access the closest services is on average higher than 15 minutes, while the blue are 15-minute areas. We consider the average time of accessibility to the closest 20 POIs.

Art Spin bike tour

The aim of the tour is to challenge traditional contexts of exhibiting art by producing new creative content in unconventional locations, while at the same time promoting urban cycling and sustainable communities. See also RAD performance in Vienna as an example.

Bikebus

Bikebus is an organized bicycle group for children who cycle safely to school together with accompanying adults. Like a school bus, only by bicycle.

Campaign plan

Campaign plans structure when content is published and actions take place, and in the best case scenario, they are coordinated with political windows of opportunity (e.g., elections).

Centralized participation plattform

On this platform, you will find the City of Vienna's participation projects. Here, you can exchange thoughts, gather ideas, and provide feedback on specific issues in dialogue with the city.

crosswalk action

During the crosswalk campaign, crosswalks were temporarily painted in places where there were none, and people were able to use them.

Data collection / counting

Data substantiates perceptions and can be used for external communication.

Developing a convincing narrative for your campaign

The framework of "Story-Based Strategy" helps you figure out your campaign’s narrative strategy. It’s composed of tools or worksheets that you can use to analyze the opposition’s story, the current popular narrative about your issue, and develop a way of pitching or talking about your issue that will win over the folks you need to win!

Dutchify Your Street

Dutch Cycling Lifestyle uses an AI to change the Google Maps Street View image of your street into more green and bike freindly street layouts.

Flowers of Proximity

The flowers are a planning tool that invites participants to look beyond their current travel routines by imagining instead how they would like to get around. This perspective grounds accessibility planning in people's needs and desires, helping make cities more livable, sustainable, and fair.

Initiative meets district politics

Citizens' initiatives can meet with district or city politicians to present and discuss their concerns. In district politics, no petition or formal basis is necessary for this; district politicians are usually open to discussion. It is important that the initiative is not politically appropriated by opposition parties and that the possibility of joint implementation with the district is communicated.

Joint Survey

Initiatives, together with political decision-makers, survey the public about the initiative and its demands.

Nachhaltigkeits-Indikatoren für STRAsseninfrastrukturprojekte (NISTRA)

An instrument that enables the assessment of road infrastructure projects taking into account sustainability goals.

Newspaper of Tomorrow

The Newspaper of Tomorrow tool gives you the opportunity to project into the future to create a shared vision on a certain topic.

Open Source Mapping Tool

uMap lets you create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site or shre them with others to contribute.

Place Standard

The Place Standard tool provides a simple framework to structure conversations about place. It allows you to think about the physical elements of a place (e.g. its buildings, spaces, and transport links) as well as the social aspects (e.g. whether people feel they have a say in decision making). The tool provides prompts for discussions, allowing you to consider all the elements of place in a methodical way. The tool pinpoints the assets of a place as well as areas where a place could improve.

Placemobil - Tactical Urbanism

The Place Mobil is a cargo bike that takes up two parking spaces when unfolded. However, as it is officially classified as a bicycle, it can be parked anywhere in public spaces (including parking lots) free of charge and legally.

Presswork for initatives

This is a guide to successful presswork for initatives. It was created by the initative network "Wir machen Wien".

Public administration workflow-mapping for local initiatives

Mapping of relevant workflows within the public administration to identify critical points / steps.

Reflection of internal power relations

Methods such as reflection rounds on internal power dynamics reveal suppressed feelings within the group and allow roles to be redefined. This helps to break entrenched patterns.