MULTIGINATION

The pilot and demonstrator projects are being developed to test and refine the Multigination method in the Turkish city of Basaksehir and the Swiss city of Winterthur, in collaboration with local Urban Living Labs and urban planning departments. The method develops in three main phases, each integrating an open source digital tools: 

1. Co-imagination tool (small scale, engaging hundreds of contributors from public spaces) 
2. Vote tool (large scale, enabling thousands of participants to vote via the city's website) 
3. Crowdfunding and mixed financing tool (supporting independent grassroots and private urban transition initiatives with values-based resonance with city urban transition objectives) 

Tools and data (both raw and processed) are openly accessible to all. This transparency fosters inclusive engagement across professional and non-professional communities, enabling systemic, multi-scale urban transition driven by collective intelligence and informed decision-making by political authorities.  

A key point of Multigination collaborative research is to closely associate local Urban Living Labs and urban planning departments that provide essential feedback to improve the approach. Another key point for guaranteeing real impact on urban transition success is the capacity for cities to customize the method through its modular approach and open-source documentation, data, and tools. 

A first result at the Winterthur site: Often projects start from an initial situation where urban transition is essentially top-down, where contributions from different stakeholders are difficult to take into account because the urban transition design system does not integrate feedback from the collaborative dimension into its global strategic decisions. 

The Winterthur participatory workshop demonstrated that stakeholders (businesses, citizens, researchers, social workers) were highly motivated to contribute within the first phase of the Multigination method. The analysis of results showed the city that citizens and stakeholders who were free to choose their topics produced qualitative contributions that resonate with urban transition issues, since 78% of the 73 ideas collected were directly related to decarbonization. 

The consortium is preparing new contributory workshops in Winterthur for February 2026 and will deploy the co-imagination tool in spring. 

Documentation and results are available here: https://www.openurbanism.ch/fr/group/16/stream 

Using the Multigination Method  

The entire Multigination project is shared under open licenses to maximize accessibility and reuse.  These licensing choices support transparency, collaboration, and the widest possible impact for dissemination. All documents and tools are shared openly—adaptations are possible as long as they comply with the Creative Commons CC BY SA and GNU AGPL licenses.  

Detailed guides and case examples (including Winterthur) are available through the Multigination Resource Library, accessible from the project website.