Regaining a sense of belonging
Design Belonging in Nowa Huta
Exploring young people’s connection to their district and co-creating spaces shared ownership.
Through storytelling, design, and co-creation, young residents work with local stakeholders to reimagine their district. By blending history with innovation, we create inclusive spaces that honor the past while fostering a sense of community and belonging for the future. This project connects people to their shared environment and redefines what home can mean.
Poland
Local
Nowa Huta
Mainly urban
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
Early concept
No
No
As a representative of an organisation, in partnership with other organisations
Strand B: Sense of Belonging
Young people seek creative ways to express themselves, yet many in Nowa Huta feel disconnected from civic life due to limited engagement opportunities and generational gaps. Fundusz Partnerstwa observes that their voices often go unheard, with few platforms to share their perspectives on the district’s development.
This project strengthens Nowa Huta’s sense of belonging by empowering 10 young residents to explore and document their personal connections to the district. Using high-quality audio recordings, they will capture stories of meaningful places—spaces that reflect their experiences and aspirations. These recordings will serve as both a reflection of their sense of belonging and an engagement tool to spark discussions about the future of the district.
Building on these insights, participants will collaborate with local leaders from NGOs, cultural institutions, businesses, and city administration in workshops. Together, they will identify shared needs, challenges, and opportunities to make Nowa Huta more vibrant. Through a co-creative process, they will design interventions—whether introducing missing elements, restoring lost spaces, or strengthening existing assets.
By the project’s end, participants will have gained hands-on experience in creative expression, cross-sector collaboration, and developing actionable plans. While no formal follow-up structures are in place, the project equips them with tools and knowledge to continue independently—whether through informal meetings, online groups, or integration into other local initiatives. With diverse stakeholders involved, the project’s impact has the potential to extend beyond its duration, influencing the district’s future in meaningful ways.
Young people seek creative ways to express themselves, yet many in Nowa Huta feel disconnected from civic life due to limited engagement opportunities and generational gaps. Fundusz Partnerstwa observes that their voices often go unheard, with few platforms to share their perspectives on the district’s development.
This project strengthens Nowa Huta’s sense of belonging by empowering 10 young residents to explore and document their personal connections to the district. Using high-quality audio recordings, they will capture stories of meaningful places—spaces that reflect their experiences and aspirations. These recordings will serve as both a reflection of their sense of belonging and an engagement tool to spark discussions about the future of the district.
Building on these insights, participants will collaborate with local leaders from NGOs, cultural institutions, businesses, and city administration in workshops. Together, they will identify shared needs, challenges, and opportunities to make Nowa Huta more vibrant. Through a co-creative process, they will design interventions—whether introducing missing elements, restoring lost spaces, or strengthening existing assets.
By the project’s end, participants will have gained hands-on experience in creative expression, cross-sector collaboration, and developing actionable plans. While no formal follow-up structures are in place, the project equips them with tools and knowledge to continue independently—whether through informal meetings, online groups, or integration into other local initiatives. With diverse stakeholders involved, the project’s impact has the potential to extend beyond its duration, influencing the district’s future in meaningful ways.
Youth
Third places
Storytelling
Collaborating
Prototyping
Our project lays the foundation for a stronger sense of belonging in Nowa Huta by engaging young people in a co-creative process to explore their personal stories, local spaces, and aspirations for the district.
We see belonging as deeply connected to social and environmental well-being. Through this process, we encourage participants to recognize how thoughtfully designed public spaces can foster mental health, social cohesion, and sustainability. This groundwork can inspire future initiatives, such as revitalizing spaces like skateparks, parks, backyards with eco-friendly approaches.
Inclusivity is central to our work. The project starts with 10 young people and evolves through collaboration with local NGOs, cultural organizations, small businesses, and city administrators. By bringing diverse voices together, we ensure that the district’s future is shaped by the people who live and create within it.
Additionally, our Polish partners are already actively engaged in a range of sustainability projects within Nowa Huta. Their initiatives include:
Planting Our Future – Focusing on urban greening and reforestation: https://www.funduszpartnerstwa.pl/planting-our-future/
Eco-Education – Providing tools and learning opportunities for environmental stewardship: https://www.funduszpartnerstwa.pl/eco-education/
Publications on Eco-Towns – Showcasing the potential for sustainable urban transformation: https://www.funduszpartnerstwa.pl/eco-town/
These initiatives reinforce our project’s mission by demonstrating that sustainability is already an integral part of the district's evolution. Ultimately, our project aligns with the New European Bauhaus vision by bridging heritage, sustainability, and community-driven transformation—proving that preservation is not just about maintaining the past but actively shaping a more sustainable and inclusive future.
We see belonging as deeply connected to social and environmental well-being. Through this process, we encourage participants to recognize how thoughtfully designed public spaces can foster mental health, social cohesion, and sustainability. This groundwork can inspire future initiatives, such as revitalizing spaces like skateparks, parks, backyards with eco-friendly approaches.
Inclusivity is central to our work. The project starts with 10 young people and evolves through collaboration with local NGOs, cultural organizations, small businesses, and city administrators. By bringing diverse voices together, we ensure that the district’s future is shaped by the people who live and create within it.
Additionally, our Polish partners are already actively engaged in a range of sustainability projects within Nowa Huta. Their initiatives include:
Planting Our Future – Focusing on urban greening and reforestation: https://www.funduszpartnerstwa.pl/planting-our-future/
Eco-Education – Providing tools and learning opportunities for environmental stewardship: https://www.funduszpartnerstwa.pl/eco-education/
Publications on Eco-Towns – Showcasing the potential for sustainable urban transformation: https://www.funduszpartnerstwa.pl/eco-town/
These initiatives reinforce our project’s mission by demonstrating that sustainability is already an integral part of the district's evolution. Ultimately, our project aligns with the New European Bauhaus vision by bridging heritage, sustainability, and community-driven transformation—proving that preservation is not just about maintaining the past but actively shaping a more sustainable and inclusive future.
Our project uses design as a process-tool to transform public spaces in Nowa Huta, envisioning them beautiful, functional, and meaningful for residents. We begin with a ‘Sound illustration’ workshop where young people share their stories of places they feel connected to, gathering emotional and sensory insights that shape our design process. These insights are then turned into concrete prototypes—whether through public art, urban interventions, or restorative designs—that enhance both the aesthetic quality and the sense of belonging in the district.
Nowa Huta’s architectural heritage - its distinctive modernist buildings and industrial history - offers inspiration for creating spaces that are not only functional but visually aligned with the local identity. By reinterpreting these elements, we create a harmonious blend of the old and the new, fostering aesthetic continuity while embracing innovation.
The district’s unique mix of buildings and nature is also a guiding principle. With its green areas and parks, we aim to integrate natural materials, green spaces, and biophilic design principles into the prototype-thinking to enhance the beauty and functionality of public spaces. This approach promotes well-being and encourages greater interaction with the urban environment.
Our goal is to create spaces that not only reflect the local identity but also improve the quality of life for residents. We aim to create public spaces that are beautiful, inclusive, and sustainable—places where people feel at home and inspired to engage in their shared environment.
Nowa Huta’s architectural heritage - its distinctive modernist buildings and industrial history - offers inspiration for creating spaces that are not only functional but visually aligned with the local identity. By reinterpreting these elements, we create a harmonious blend of the old and the new, fostering aesthetic continuity while embracing innovation.
The district’s unique mix of buildings and nature is also a guiding principle. With its green areas and parks, we aim to integrate natural materials, green spaces, and biophilic design principles into the prototype-thinking to enhance the beauty and functionality of public spaces. This approach promotes well-being and encourages greater interaction with the urban environment.
Our goal is to create spaces that not only reflect the local identity but also improve the quality of life for residents. We aim to create public spaces that are beautiful, inclusive, and sustainable—places where people feel at home and inspired to engage in their shared environment.
Our core target group is young people, and we aim to co-create and improve third places where they can feel heard, seen, and connected. Our goal is to offer diverse young people, from various backgrounds and living situations, a space where they feel at home. We offer workshops that are approachable and adaptable to their needs.
The project focuses on creating affordable public spaces for young residents to visit and engage with. As we design prototypes, we aim to expand the focus from the needs of our co-creative groups to ensure the prototypes are useful to a wider range of young people who may not have been involved in the process. This includes considering people with disabilities, different backgrounds, or ages during prototyping and future refinements. The spaces we create will remain open to everyone, including those who weren't part of the initial design phase.
Through our ‘sound illustration’ workshops, we aim to inspire and include diverse voices. Ultimately, we guide the design process while educating participants in collaboration, co-creation, and self-coordination skills.
The project focuses on creating affordable public spaces for young residents to visit and engage with. As we design prototypes, we aim to expand the focus from the needs of our co-creative groups to ensure the prototypes are useful to a wider range of young people who may not have been involved in the process. This includes considering people with disabilities, different backgrounds, or ages during prototyping and future refinements. The spaces we create will remain open to everyone, including those who weren't part of the initial design phase.
Through our ‘sound illustration’ workshops, we aim to inspire and include diverse voices. Ultimately, we guide the design process while educating participants in collaboration, co-creation, and self-coordination skills.
We adopt a participatory approach that actively engages young people and local leaders to shape their district based on their needs, challenges, and aspirations. This process fosters a collective vision for the future, emphasizing the district’s potential to become a vibrant, balanced area for both living and working. By incorporating the district's rich heritage—its architectural beauty and harmonious blend of nature and urban space—we are creating an environment that invites innovation and experimentation with new ideas around community, identity, and belonging.
The project places a strong focus on human-centered design, beginning with the experiences, thoughts, and feelings of young people. Throughout the process, we ensure accessibility for all, including those who may not have been part of the initial design phase. In doing so, we create an inclusive platform for diverse voices.
Moreover, the project equips participants with valuable skills in dialogue, collaboration, co-creation, and process facilitation. Our goal is not only to foster cooperation but to instill a collective sense of ownership and pride in their district. By empowering citizens in this way, we are enabling them to take an active role in the ongoing development of their community.
Ultimately, the project is about serving the people, the context, and the opportunities they create. The people are the district.
The project places a strong focus on human-centered design, beginning with the experiences, thoughts, and feelings of young people. Throughout the process, we ensure accessibility for all, including those who may not have been part of the initial design phase. In doing so, we create an inclusive platform for diverse voices.
Moreover, the project equips participants with valuable skills in dialogue, collaboration, co-creation, and process facilitation. Our goal is not only to foster cooperation but to instill a collective sense of ownership and pride in their district. By empowering citizens in this way, we are enabling them to take an active role in the ongoing development of their community.
Ultimately, the project is about serving the people, the context, and the opportunities they create. The people are the district.
The project is a collaboration between Katrin Schulz (Digital Manager at the Collective Leadership Institute, Germany) and Fundusz Partnerstwa, a Polish organization in Nowa Huta, the district where the project is taking place.
Fundusz Partnerstwa, with its strong local and regional networks focused on sustainability and social inclusion, plays a key role. They lead the engagement phase, guiding the first workshop on podcasting and audio creation around the theme of “sense of belonging.” The workshop works with 10 young people, exploring their contexts, needs, and wishes for their community.
Additionally, Fundusz Partnerstwa provides the venue for one of the Collective Leadership Institute’s workshops and connects with regional stakeholders to ensure broader community support.
The Collective Leadership Institutes part, led by me, Katrin, facilitates the next two workshops. The first brings together the young people from the engagement workshop and local leaders from NGOs, cultural institutions, small businesses, and city administration. We focus on identifying mutual needs and challenges for places of belonging within the district, discussing questions like: What challenges and shared values connect us? How is belonging linked to sustainability and inclusion?
The second workshop focuses on collaboration agreements, structuring procedures, and co-designing prototypes to address gaps, recover lost elements, and strengthen existing ones. We explore: What can we create to enhance our sense of belonging? What steps are needed to make it a reality?
Each stakeholder brings unique expertise. Fundusz Partnerstwa offers community connections and knowledge of audio creation, while the Collective Leadership Institute provides facilitation expertise and design thinking. Together, we create a strong foundation for empowering local actors to shape their environment collaboratively.
The project, rooted in local engagement, also reflects a European dimension of cross-border
Fundusz Partnerstwa, with its strong local and regional networks focused on sustainability and social inclusion, plays a key role. They lead the engagement phase, guiding the first workshop on podcasting and audio creation around the theme of “sense of belonging.” The workshop works with 10 young people, exploring their contexts, needs, and wishes for their community.
Additionally, Fundusz Partnerstwa provides the venue for one of the Collective Leadership Institute’s workshops and connects with regional stakeholders to ensure broader community support.
The Collective Leadership Institutes part, led by me, Katrin, facilitates the next two workshops. The first brings together the young people from the engagement workshop and local leaders from NGOs, cultural institutions, small businesses, and city administration. We focus on identifying mutual needs and challenges for places of belonging within the district, discussing questions like: What challenges and shared values connect us? How is belonging linked to sustainability and inclusion?
The second workshop focuses on collaboration agreements, structuring procedures, and co-designing prototypes to address gaps, recover lost elements, and strengthen existing ones. We explore: What can we create to enhance our sense of belonging? What steps are needed to make it a reality?
Each stakeholder brings unique expertise. Fundusz Partnerstwa offers community connections and knowledge of audio creation, while the Collective Leadership Institute provides facilitation expertise and design thinking. Together, we create a strong foundation for empowering local actors to shape their environment collaboratively.
The project, rooted in local engagement, also reflects a European dimension of cross-border
The project integrates multiple disciplines and knowledge fields to ensure a holistic approach. It combines technical expertise in high-quality podcasting (Fundusz Partnerstwa) with design knowledge in prototyping (Katrin Schulz), alongside facilitation and process design expertise based on frameworks like the NEB Compass and the Collective Leadership Institute's 'Dialogic Change Model’ (https://www.collectiveleadership.de/blog/article/the-dialogic-change-model/)
This two models include tools such as Sense Walks, Stakeholder Mapping, Doodling Architecture Concepts, Backcasting, and Dialogic Quality Skills, creating a comprehensive toolset for community engagement, partnership, and solution-building.
In a general sense, the project blends best international development methodologies with design tools tailored for local contexts. The design aspect supports approachability and mutual understanding by taking ideas from an audio format (podcasting) to a visual and tangible outcome (prototyping and community-driven design), built on the collaboration skillset developed throughout the process.
This two models include tools such as Sense Walks, Stakeholder Mapping, Doodling Architecture Concepts, Backcasting, and Dialogic Quality Skills, creating a comprehensive toolset for community engagement, partnership, and solution-building.
In a general sense, the project blends best international development methodologies with design tools tailored for local contexts. The design aspect supports approachability and mutual understanding by taking ideas from an audio format (podcasting) to a visual and tangible outcome (prototyping and community-driven design), built on the collaboration skillset developed throughout the process.
Young people—the future leaders of our communities—need creative spaces and tools to express themselves, collaborate, and actively shape their surroundings. This project introduces them to co-creation methods, design thinking, and community engagement tools, empowering them to become active agents in shaping their district.
By valuing diverse perspectives, the project strengthens local communities by highlighting the uniqueness of each story, place, and society. It creates a shared space where young voices connect with local stakeholders, fostering a sense of belonging through storytelling, dialogue, and design.
What makes this project innovative is the fusion of international development methodologies with modern design practices, adapted to a local context. By integrating high-quality podcasting, prototyping, and facilitation frameworks, the project creates a process that moves from audio storytelling to visualized, tangible outcomes. This multi-format approach makes urban co-creation more accessible, engaging, and impactful for a diverse range of participants.
The Collective Leadership Institute’s methodologies ensure community-driven transformation by fostering long-term ownership and engagement. This bottom-up approach strengthens relationships across sectors, enabling ongoing collaboration beyond the project itself.
At its core, the project is a universal, innovative model for sharing collective knowledge, stories, and oral heritage—applicable to communities worldwide. By combining heritage with forward-looking design, it connects creativity, local identity, and urban development, ensuring that communities actively shape their future in a sustainable and inclusive way.
By valuing diverse perspectives, the project strengthens local communities by highlighting the uniqueness of each story, place, and society. It creates a shared space where young voices connect with local stakeholders, fostering a sense of belonging through storytelling, dialogue, and design.
What makes this project innovative is the fusion of international development methodologies with modern design practices, adapted to a local context. By integrating high-quality podcasting, prototyping, and facilitation frameworks, the project creates a process that moves from audio storytelling to visualized, tangible outcomes. This multi-format approach makes urban co-creation more accessible, engaging, and impactful for a diverse range of participants.
The Collective Leadership Institute’s methodologies ensure community-driven transformation by fostering long-term ownership and engagement. This bottom-up approach strengthens relationships across sectors, enabling ongoing collaboration beyond the project itself.
At its core, the project is a universal, innovative model for sharing collective knowledge, stories, and oral heritage—applicable to communities worldwide. By combining heritage with forward-looking design, it connects creativity, local identity, and urban development, ensuring that communities actively shape their future in a sustainable and inclusive way.
The Dialogic Change Model (DCM) by the Collective Leadership Institute ensures that transformation is not imposed but co-created, making it sustainable, inclusive, and adaptable. It builds ownership, stakeholder engagement, and community-led development through four iterative phases:
Phase 1: Exploring & Engaging – Identify key stakeholders, build trust, and create a shared understanding through dialogue.
Phase 2: Building & Formalizing – Align perspectives, develop a common vision, and establish collaboration structures.
Phase 3: Implementing & Evaluating – Co-create solutions, test prototypes, and refine based on feedback.
Phase 4: Sustaining & Expanding – Foster long-term ownership, scale successful initiatives, and embed continuous learning.
The project closely aligns with NEB values, working principles, and tools. Many methods—such as Stakeholder Mapping and Backcasting—are shared between the NEB Toolbox and DCM workshops, reinforcing a cohesive and tested participatory approach.
Additionally, human-centered design tools—including storytelling, sound illustration, and prototyping—help translate intangible ideas into concrete solutions. Sound illustration serves as an entry point for young people to express their sense of belonging through audio. By recording local narratives, field sounds, and personal histories, participants develop a deeper connection to their environment while gaining technical skills in audio storytelling. This low-barrier entry point attracts young people by offering them a new medium of self-expression, while also serving as a foundation for further co-creation activities. Prototyping then materializes these ideas into testable concepts, ensuring that creative visions can evolve into tangible actions.
By merging internationally proven methodologies with creative design tools, the project fosters deep community engagement, transdisciplinary collaboration, and agile urban transformation—all core values of the New European Bauhaus.
Phase 1: Exploring & Engaging – Identify key stakeholders, build trust, and create a shared understanding through dialogue.
Phase 2: Building & Formalizing – Align perspectives, develop a common vision, and establish collaboration structures.
Phase 3: Implementing & Evaluating – Co-create solutions, test prototypes, and refine based on feedback.
Phase 4: Sustaining & Expanding – Foster long-term ownership, scale successful initiatives, and embed continuous learning.
The project closely aligns with NEB values, working principles, and tools. Many methods—such as Stakeholder Mapping and Backcasting—are shared between the NEB Toolbox and DCM workshops, reinforcing a cohesive and tested participatory approach.
Additionally, human-centered design tools—including storytelling, sound illustration, and prototyping—help translate intangible ideas into concrete solutions. Sound illustration serves as an entry point for young people to express their sense of belonging through audio. By recording local narratives, field sounds, and personal histories, participants develop a deeper connection to their environment while gaining technical skills in audio storytelling. This low-barrier entry point attracts young people by offering them a new medium of self-expression, while also serving as a foundation for further co-creation activities. Prototyping then materializes these ideas into testable concepts, ensuring that creative visions can evolve into tangible actions.
By merging internationally proven methodologies with creative design tools, the project fosters deep community engagement, transdisciplinary collaboration, and agile urban transformation—all core values of the New European Bauhaus.
The high adaptability of this project makes it easily replicable across different locations, beneficiary groups, and contexts.
Methodology: The Dialogic Change Model is a universal framework that enables collaboration and structured co-creation. It provides a flexible roadmap for navigating complex processes while ensuring inclusivity and local ownership.
Technology: The digital component can be adapted based on access to devices, the internet, and technical skills. In the engagement phase, storytelling can range from high-quality podcast production to low-threshold methods like recording voice notes on mobile phones or using AI-generated speech for written stories. Similarly, prototyping in the final workshop can vary—from digital tools like PowerPoint and AI-assisted 3D models to simple analog sketches and paper models.
Processes, Products & Learnings: The participatory nature of this project ensures that its processes and outcomes are shaped by the local context. The flexible structure allows different communities to adapt tools and approaches according to their specific challenges, resources, and goals.
Methodology: The Dialogic Change Model is a universal framework that enables collaboration and structured co-creation. It provides a flexible roadmap for navigating complex processes while ensuring inclusivity and local ownership.
Technology: The digital component can be adapted based on access to devices, the internet, and technical skills. In the engagement phase, storytelling can range from high-quality podcast production to low-threshold methods like recording voice notes on mobile phones or using AI-generated speech for written stories. Similarly, prototyping in the final workshop can vary—from digital tools like PowerPoint and AI-assisted 3D models to simple analog sketches and paper models.
Processes, Products & Learnings: The participatory nature of this project ensures that its processes and outcomes are shaped by the local context. The flexible structure allows different communities to adapt tools and approaches according to their specific challenges, resources, and goals.
Our project tackles global challenges by implementing local solutions that align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), fostering community-driven change and inclusive urban development.
SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities & Communities
By engaging young residents in participatory urban planning, the project strengthens their connection to Nowa Huta and empowers them to actively shape their surroundings. Through storytelling, sound illustration, and co-creation workshops, we translate their experiences into tangible ideas for a more inclusive and vibrant district.
SDG 4 – Quality Education
Education goes beyond traditional classrooms. Our project equips young people with practical skills in collaborating, audio storytelling, and prototyping—fostering creativity, critical thinking, and co-creation. By learning through experience, they gain the confidence to engage in civic life and contribute to their community’s development.
SDG 16 – Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions
A thriving community relies on dialogue and inclusivity. By creating a platform where young people, NGOs, cultural institutions, businesses, and local administrators collaborate, the project strengthens participatory governance. It ensures that different voices are heard and that decision-making processes become more transparent and community-driven.
SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
Sustainable change requires collective effort. The project brings together stakeholders from various sectors, fostering partnerships that go beyond the project’s duration. By bridging generations and disciplines, it lays the groundwork for long-term collaboration and inspires future initiatives that align with global sustainability efforts.
SDG 11 – Sustainable Cities & Communities
By engaging young residents in participatory urban planning, the project strengthens their connection to Nowa Huta and empowers them to actively shape their surroundings. Through storytelling, sound illustration, and co-creation workshops, we translate their experiences into tangible ideas for a more inclusive and vibrant district.
SDG 4 – Quality Education
Education goes beyond traditional classrooms. Our project equips young people with practical skills in collaborating, audio storytelling, and prototyping—fostering creativity, critical thinking, and co-creation. By learning through experience, they gain the confidence to engage in civic life and contribute to their community’s development.
SDG 16 – Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions
A thriving community relies on dialogue and inclusivity. By creating a platform where young people, NGOs, cultural institutions, businesses, and local administrators collaborate, the project strengthens participatory governance. It ensures that different voices are heard and that decision-making processes become more transparent and community-driven.
SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
Sustainable change requires collective effort. The project brings together stakeholders from various sectors, fostering partnerships that go beyond the project’s duration. By bridging generations and disciplines, it lays the groundwork for long-term collaboration and inspires future initiatives that align with global sustainability efforts.
The project will be implemented through three structured workshops, engaging 10 young residents of Nowa Huta alongside local stakeholders. These workshops will build progressively from exploration to co-creation and prototyping, ensuring a participatory and community-driven process.
Workshop 1: Exploring Belonging (In-Person, Young Participants Only)
- Sense Walks to explore personal places of belonging in Nowa Huta.
- Storytelling & Podcasting Training to equip participants with tools to express their perspectives.
- Discussions on Belonging—identifying personal connections, needs, and aspirations for local spaces.
Workshop 2: Strengthening Dialogue & Collective Vision (In-Person, Including Local Stakeholders)
- Listening to the Stories—local stakeholders engage with young participants' narratives.
- Facilitated Dialogue on mutual needs, challenges, and aspirations.
- Applying Dialogic Change Model Tools to ensure shared ownership and envision a future for the district together.
Workshop 3: Prototyping & Future Implementation (Online, Young Participants & Local Stakeholders)
- Building collaboration groups that are able to coordinate themselves
- Prototyping to create first product to test and share
- Stakeholder Mapping to define concrete interventions with potential new stakeholders
- Defining Next Steps to ensure sustained collaboration and implementation beyond the project’s timeframe.
- Gathering Feedback about the project
The final prototypes serve as a foundation for continued engagement, encouraging long-term ownership and ongoing community-driven development.
Workshop 1: Exploring Belonging (In-Person, Young Participants Only)
- Sense Walks to explore personal places of belonging in Nowa Huta.
- Storytelling & Podcasting Training to equip participants with tools to express their perspectives.
- Discussions on Belonging—identifying personal connections, needs, and aspirations for local spaces.
Workshop 2: Strengthening Dialogue & Collective Vision (In-Person, Including Local Stakeholders)
- Listening to the Stories—local stakeholders engage with young participants' narratives.
- Facilitated Dialogue on mutual needs, challenges, and aspirations.
- Applying Dialogic Change Model Tools to ensure shared ownership and envision a future for the district together.
Workshop 3: Prototyping & Future Implementation (Online, Young Participants & Local Stakeholders)
- Building collaboration groups that are able to coordinate themselves
- Prototyping to create first product to test and share
- Stakeholder Mapping to define concrete interventions with potential new stakeholders
- Defining Next Steps to ensure sustained collaboration and implementation beyond the project’s timeframe.
- Gathering Feedback about the project
The final prototypes serve as a foundation for continued engagement, encouraging long-term ownership and ongoing community-driven development.
