Client: Områdeløft Tøyen (Bydel Gamle Oslo)
Place and Time: Oslo, December 2017
Team: Growlab Oslo, Maria Haukeli, Lauren Doherty
Delivery: Human-centered design, concept development, public engagement, workshop facilitation, visual communication, event management
To engage locals in a pilot-project for participatory budgeting at Tøyen/Oslo.
Områdeløft Tøyen invited us to facilitate for a pilot project for participatory budgeting. We developed and designed Tøyens Folkebudsjett which consisted of three phases:
1. Inviting citizens to participate through powerful design in print and social media but also through happenings and being personally present on street level
2. Concept & facilitation of low-key design thinking workshops in order to help people to develop their ideas, find collaborators and learn how to present their ideas verbally
3. Event management of the final participatory budgeting event