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A hands-on tool for navigating complexity, building collaborations, and designing inclusive interventions in urban spaces.
Design for Urban Change Toolkit
What is it?
The Design for Urban Change Toolkit is a workshop tool designed to support teams, communities, and organizations in imagining and shaping responses to urban challenges. Rooted in a people-first, design-driven approach, it offers a flexible process for exploring local contexts, generating ideas, and testing strategies for change.
Whether you are activating a public space, addressing a neighborhood issue, or building a new initiative, the toolkit can help you frame challenges, map relationships, imagine outcomes, and take action with care.
The Design for Urban Change Toolkit is a workshop-based resource created to help teams, communities, and organizations explore challenges and design strategies for meaningful change in cities.
Developed through years of experience in public space work across Sweden, Lebanon, and Türkiye, the toolkit guides users through a flexible, people-first process rooted in creativity, collaboration, and systems thinking.
It is ideal for:
Civic and cultural organizations
Municipal teams
Urban activists and designers
Community-led initiatives
Cross-sector partnerships
What’s inside?
The toolkit includes a growing set of cards and canvases, each designed to support different parts of your journey from framing the challenge to testing ideas and building lasting relationships.
Toolkit components:
Process Cards
Prompt Cards to situate your challenge, define your context, and imagine outcomes
Strategic Approach Cards
Methods Cards with research and intervention tactics
Theory & Concepts Cards for deeper reflection and framing
The Canvas: Map the challenge, process, and the stakeholders
How to Work With Us
The Design for Urban Change Toolkit has been developed through two years of prototyping and testing in collaboration with universities, municipalities, and cultural organizations. These real-world trials have helped us refine the content, process, and design, leading up to the final release planned for January 2026.
The toolkit is still in its prototype phase and is currently available through facilitated workshops or collaboration requests.
Book a Workshop
We offer custom-designed workshops using the toolkit for municipalities, cultural orgs, and community-led projects. Sessions can be tailored to your specific context and goals, whether you are launching a new initiative or revisiting an existing program.
Order a Toolkit Prototype
Interested in using the toolkit in your own process? We are selectively offering the current prototype version for a small fee to collaborators willing to give feedback and share learnings.
