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"Local Mobility Concept" game
Designed to give residents a tangible voice in mobility planning, this tool enables citizens to actively co-create future street and mobility concepts. Through hands-on interaction with wooden figures and modular street components, participants can develop and communicate their own ideas, priorities, and mobility measures for their neighborhood.
Building durable groups with low hierachies
Defining goals, structures, roles and means of decision making are all crucial parts of founding and maintaining collectives, cooperatives, and other groups. Many aspects of organisation however remain ad hoc, informal and opaque, creating the possibility of power imbalances, misunderstandings and exclusion. The link will lead you to website with key questions that any group should consider and define during its formation.
Creating a team culture
Capture the shared purpose, values and behaviours of a team with this template from mobilisation Lab. This helps to build an environment in which everybody feels safe and motivated.
Efficient decision making in low hierarchy settings
A tool that helps you make collective decisions that everyone genuinely support, distribute responsibility across the group, and build a culture of equal participation.
Newspaper of Tomorrow
When different stakeholders come together, they bring different perspectives. This is of great value for participatory and collaborative work. However, there is a risk that objectives and goals are different and difficult to combine. Creating a shared vision in the group becomes then an essential part of a project. This tool can be very helpful to reach this objective in a creative way.
Plenary for sharing emotions
A plenary for emotions is a structured group format that creates dedicated space for emotions and interpersonal dynamics within a collective or initiative — separate from task-oriented or decision-making meetings. Rather than pushing emotions to the margins of group life, the Emo-Plenum treats them as essential information: a signal about the health, motivation, and tensions within the group.
Public Engagement Onion
This tool inspires you what kind of participation methods are out there and the level of participation they allow.
Task & Maintenance: What makes groups work?
This tool is a quick, easy tool that is effective at helping groups understand the different roles in making groups work: different leadership skills.
Tools to help communicate within a group
Communication platforms like slack or discourse have dedicated channels for different projects and teams, keeping discussions focused and easily searchable. On the scale of a small initiative they don't cost anything.