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…
Tässä lausunnossa esitämme näkemyksemme lakiluonnoksen alueidenkäytön kokonaisuudesta erityisesti demokratian ja kansalaisten osallistumisen kannalta. Työryhmämme on osallistunut vuonna 2021 Sitran tulevaisuuslaboratorioon (Sitra Lab 3.0), jonka teemana on demokratian kapeikot. Vuoden aikana olemme tarkastelleet kaupunkisuunnittelussa sivuun jäävien ryhmien osallistumisen esteitä erityisesti maahanmuuttajataustaisten yrittäjien näkökulmasta. Olemme tarkastelleet tätä kaupunkisuunnitteluosallisuuden haastetta Kontulan ostarin kehittämisprosessissa. Lausuntomme pohjautuu havaintoihimme systeemisistä ongelmista,…