Perspectivity in collaboration with EMMA designed and facilitated the first citizens’ council in the city of Maastricht.
Citizen Participation & Inclusion
For years, citizen participation has been a popular buzzword. However, often citizens are not actually involved in complex issues in a participatory way. Perspectivity designs and facilitates processes that involve the whole system. Examples of our work with citizen participation can be found below. contact us
Transformative Futures for Water Security initiative
Water security is key to our collective future, yet many places in the world experience severe water insecurity. We have to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all (SDG 6). Perspectivity facilitated this initiative for the Global South on the future of water security in the lead-up to the UN 2023 Water Conference.
What will happen with my input?
Asking input from citizens can be done in a more democratic way. Give them more interpretation power, so you can work more objectively and inclusive as a civil servant. I tell about this new participatory phenomenon in this article.
The future of nature-inclusive Netherlands
In this Future Search project, various stakeholders came together in an old monastery and co-created a national agenda for a nature-inclusive society.
Book tip: Now it’s up to us, call for real democracy
Book tip by Petra de Boer: It is up to citizens to solve the greatest challenges of our time. That is the appeal of Eva Rovers to the Netherlands with her booklet 'Now it's up to us, call for real democracy'. Booklet? Yes, it is literally a small handy little book....
Maastricht city dialogue forecast of a new democracy?
How do we live, learn, work and enjoy together in Maastricht 2040?
The Municipality of Maastricht had asked us to facilitate a broad city dialogue about the future of Maastricht. Before the summer, many wishes had already been collected from residents and other stakeholders. Now it was time to delve deeper into the most important themes and to jointly investigate dilemmas, opportunities and potential solutions.
Deep Democracy (Level 1)
Facilitate a dialogue and uncover the wisdom of the group.
Deep Democracy is a practical facilitation method to start dialogue and discussion where we actively search for the wisdom of the minority.
Citizens co-design their district masterplan
Residents think along to design a Masterplan for the district Nieuw-West in Amsterdam.
Perspectivity was asked to organised two open sessions to facilitate the conversations between the residents and other relevant stakeholders.
Online Workshop: Putting People First
An online and interactive workshop on working with stories for a more people-centered and inclusive approach, especially in fragile and complex settings. 20 April 2021 - 13:00 to 16:00 CET What is the workshop about?Organised by Perspectivity and ReflACTION,...
Inspired by G1000
In the past years, the concept of 'G1000' has gained more popularity as a way to involve citizens in the creation of government policy. We recently had an elaborate conversation with the initiators of G1000 in the Netherlands. We were inspired by their enthusiasm,...
We are particularly qualified in working with the following themes and methods