Kirjoittaja: Eveliina Harsia

Our participatory pilot at Kontula mall particularly highlighted the fact that silent participants are not necessarily participants who do not want to participate. For the entrepreneurs who took part in our experiment, the mall is an important everyday environment, and they participate in its development if they have the opportunity to do so. By opportunity…

From the point of view of foreign-language entrepreneurs, the most essential factors for participation are access to information in their own language and conversational encounters during the mall’s development. It is crucial to consider the target group’s needs when designing interactions. The experiment we conducted was praised in part because the methods were designed with…

In the Kontula Mall pilot project, we developed a multilingual map survey for foreign language respondents using the Maptionnaire tool. Maptionnaire is an e-participation tool widely used in urban planning. It has also been used by the City of Helsinki. We chose this tool precisely because it is a familiar and well-established tool in the…

Our multilingual map questionnaire received 21 responses during the pilot. Most of the respondents were entrepreneurs in Kontula Mall. The majority of respondents were male (72%). Respondents ranged in age from 20 to 60 years old. The most common mother tongues of the respondents were Bengali and Kurdish. There were also a few respondents who…