Sona – Participatory Urban Development

The Client

Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit FHNW

The Challenge

With the SONA app, researchers and urban planners collaborate more effectively, engage participants and express opinions. In workshops, participants register via the mobile-first app and create their own «planets» to visualize priorities. Each planet’s color distribution reflects flags placed on key topics: Usage (yellow), Mobility (blue), Participation (red), Freedom of movement (brown) and Social structure (green). Individual concerns can thus be compared and discussed. The results had been presented as a scientific poster at the “Klybeck Plus” participation event and at the AAL Forum in Portugal.