Interview with Arjama Mukherjee about a U_CODE participation project in Kenya

Arjama Mukherjee is a member of the OPUS (Operations and Unit and Services Unit of U_CODE) research team at WISSENSARCHITEKTUR - Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture, which organizes citizen participation workshops in international cooperation projects using the U_CODE co-design tool developed in-house.

In an interview with the online magazine "Democracy Technologies", she and Titus Kaloki (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) talk about a pilot project in Nakuru City, Kenya. They explain how the cooperation with the up-and-coming city came about via the foundation's Just City program and how the "Transformative Change Making" methodology works.

Inclusive Workshops with local facilitators, a digital 3D model and the use of icons, it also enables children, young people, the elderly and illiterate people to contribute their ideas and wishes to urban planning.

To the interview "Fitting a Participation Tool to a New Place" on the "Democracy Technologies" website