What is it?
The Idea Tree is a citizen participation artifact designed by Ciudad Emergente to socialize thoughts and concerns through an analog process. It facilitates the aggregation of handwritten ideas on individual cards, transforming them into a collective vision. The tool consists of a large-scale, high-visibility hanging panel that allows messages to be attached or suspended, serving as an open "showcase of ideas" that encourages reading and shared reflection.
The Insight
It generates a visual and collective qualitative database. By openly displaying shared concerns, it fosters consensus-building and identifies citizen-led priorities. The results are processed to inform urban diagnoses, validate infrastructure designs (such as the Eliodoro Yáñez Bike Lane), or capture aspirations within broader strategic planning processes.
How it works?
Pose a Key Question: Define a central question or challenge for the community to address.
Provide Cards: Hand out post-its or cards to participants for them to write down their thoughts.
Grow the Tree: Hang the responses on the Idea Tree to generate a collective and shared brainstorm.
Request Your Idea Tree
Do you want to use the Idea Tree in your community, school, municipality, or event?
What does it measure?
Community thoughts, concerns, aspirations, and proposals in response to specific territorial challenges. It facilitates the spontaneous, transparent, and unfiltered capture of citizen opinions in real-time.