Unlock15

Toolbox

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.

Align on Your Impact Goals

Get crystal clear on the change you want to achieve, in the near-term and long-term.

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.

Emo-Plenum

The Emo-Plenum 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.

In a typical Emo-Plenum, participants are invited to share how they are feeling about the group's work, its relationships, and its internal dynamics — without the pressure of having to solve anything immediately. The format encourages honest expression of frustration, enthusiasm, doubt, or conflict, and gives the group a chance to acknowledge these realities collectively.

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.

Futures Wheel

The Futures Wheel is a visual foresight and brainstorming tool invented by American futurist Jerome C. Glenn in 1971, designed to graphically map the primary, secondary, and tertiary consequences of a specific event, trend, or change using a circular diagram with concentric rings radiating from a central hub.

The method works by placing a central change or issue at the core of the diagram — for example, a new policy, a social trend, or a strategic decision — and then working outward in layers. The first ring captures direct, first-order consequences; from each of those, a second ring of second-order consequences is generated, and so on — surfacing implications beyond the immediate and obvious, and helping develop an understanding of causality through ripple effects.

Headlines from the future

A participatory activity to support aspirational goal setting, by imagining a more positive future.

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.

Onboarding Framework

The Onboarding Framework is a structured yet flexible tool designed to help grassroots civil society initiatives welcome and integrate new volunteers with as little friction as possible.

The framework helps initiatives answer three core questions: What does a new volunteer need to know, feel, and do to get started? Where do their skills and interests fit best? And how can the organization make that first step feel easy, welcoming, and worthwhile?

By providing a clear path from curiosity to commitment, the Onboarding Framework reduces dropout at the earliest stage, builds a sense of belonging from day one, and ensures that volunteer energy is channeled effectively — strengthening the initiative's capacity from the bottom up.

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.