It can be difficult to know where to begin when creating your landing page, especially on Decidim. Decidim is oriented around transparent and open participation. However, how each city, lab, or organization wants to communicate where and how participants can engage with a project varies!Platoniq has created a series of new content block for Decidim homepages. Designing the homepage came after realizing that the prefabricated landing initially available by the platform was creating and extra ob…

In our last phase of our engagement strategy we wanted to check the health of our labs and their platforms. As a closing step this would wrap up the learning and capacity building thus far co-created and shared by Platoniq within the meta platform and serve as a form of self evaluation for future self directed improvement by the labs. Platform health entails digital maintenance, but also the communication lines developed between communities and their respective platform. The big questions behi…

At Sharing Cities, an event in Barcelona this November, Platoniq shared some of the work and insights from working on OpenHeritage especially in connection to SDG 11. SDG 11 broadly defined is creating cities and human settlements that are more inclusive, resilient, safe, and sustainable. This was a perfect fit for the event and in alignment with the Sharing Cities programme which focused on platform labour, inclusion, and gender, and data commons. When we think about platforms, many have a o…

This fall has been packed with events and workshops even until the end, one our favorite spaces to share and learn in terms of open and tech oriented spaces has been the Decidimfest. At the Decidimfest, Platoniq held several workshops to demystify the platform and much of the ideas that surround it. To start with Ivan, an integral part to OpenHeritage’s technical management, gave a talk on what to do after downloading Decidim. While many communities, municipalities, and collectives get excited…

This October OpenHeritage made its mark in Warsaw at the ‘Informed Cities’ Forum where researchers, policy makers, and grassroots communities and actors came together to bridge the gap between research and making a local impact. Our OpenHeritage labs as well as partners came to share insights, ideas, and the like to contribute to the ongoing conversation around best practices around adaptive urban reuse of heritage buildings, communities, and culture. At the forum Platoniq shared their exten…

This week Platoniq is geared up for #AACC_Mallorca the XII edition of Arquitecturas Colectivas. During the week, different projects, collectives, and groups came together to share experiences, tools, and methods for co-creating and collaborating in local and neighborhood spaces. We presented our new and improved ‘Decidim the Game’🎲🎱🎳Where participants played to learn the ins and outs of creating an open, transparent process of collective decision making and action online 📶Quite literally we br…

Creating new Possibilities for Open Heritage with DecidimAfter the Berlin Consortium meeting last May, we’ve made several strides in creating and developing new features within Decidim, the engine behind OpenHeritage’s participatory platform and the & Cooperative Heritage Online Labs. These additions have come a result of the variety of contexts of each of the Open Heritage cases. Each case provides its own challenges and needs to make a participatory process work. Platoniq as a facilitator fo…