Spotlight: Have fun trying out participants' suggestions
/Spotlight: Have fun trying out participants' suggestions
Residents won't always understand what's possible when they submit ideas, so it’s natural that some of their proposals will not be feasible. Still, you can have some fun and demonstrate that your institution is responsive via “micro executions.” The Parti Co-op team established a Citizen Suggestion Trial Center, a public forum that examines and discusses resident suggestions through experimentation. A particular suggestion is implemented in a trial run, then the results are shared for discussion on the digital platform.
When a participant on the DemosX platform in Seoul proposed turning the city's metro system into an educational site, complete with teachers in the subway cars, the Parti Co-op team ran with it and set up a small experiment. It then produced and shared a promotional video documenting this novel urban intervention.
Democracy Seoul's Trial Center tested out a citizen proposal to offer formal education in the city's subway system and created a video showing how it would work.