Enabling digital co-creation in urban planning and development

Abstract

Co-creation is essential for urban planning. Online citizen participation is an established method to obtain feedback from citizens on a wide variety of plans. But tools and methods for digitized workshops are rare. The City of Hamburg and the HafenCity University develop a system, which integrates digital online and on-site participation. This paper reports on experiences and findings made during the development and testing of digital touch tables, peripherals and software. While touch tables proved to be powerful workshop tools for the visualization of maps, plans, urban data and 3D models, it also showed that the design of interfaces for the citizens’ input is a challenge. Of high importance and high potential is the development of AI-based functionalities to support user input and feedback evaluation.