Participatory Action Research
Art Trail
Art Trail is a collaborative activity in which participants intervene in a public or community space through collective artistic actions, aiming to reframe and transform it into a unique, meaningful, and shared place for the community.
Brainstorming
Brainstorming fosters collective creativity and collaboration by generating multiple proposals to address a specific challenge.
Collaborative Benchmarking
Collaborative Benchmarking promotes continuous improvement through comparative analysis and the adaptation of successful practices to one's own context.
Collective Questionnaire
The Collective Questionnaire is a participatory dynamic that enables the collaborative design of key questions, ensuring their relevance and usefulness for the project's or research’s purpose.
Communities of Practice
Communities of Practice brings together people with shared interests or challenges to exchange experiences, build collective knowledge, and generate solutions collaboratively.
Community Garden
Community garden is a participatory activity in which neighbors, students, or community groups come together to create and care for a garden in a shared space. Through collaborative work, they grow food, exchange knowledge, and strengthen their connection with the environment and the community.
Data-driven decisions
Data-driven decisions is a collaborative activity designed to help teams classify key questions, explore research methods, and balance qualitative and quantitative insights to drive better decision-making.
Diagnostic Walk
The Diagnostic Walk is a participatory activity that uses direct observation of the environment to build a collective diagnosis and propose solutions grounded in local context.
Empathy Map
The Empathy Map helps to better understand people's emotions, thoughts, and behaviors to design more human-centered and effective solutions.
Epic Failure
Epic Failure is a participatory activity that invites people to reframe and share failures as valuable learning experiences, turning setbacks into collective strength and resilience.
Film Society
Film Society is a participatory activity that combines a collective film screening with a facilitated critical discussion to foster empathy, reflection, and shared meaning-making.
Flowchart
Flowchart is a collaborative technique that allows participants to analyze cause-effect relationships within a central topic, identify “critical knots,” and assign responsibilities for strategic planning.
Forum Theater
Engage in Forum Theater, a participatory method to explore social issues through performance. Empower communities, foster creative solutions, and promote collective action.
How Might We (HMW)
How Might We is a Design Sprint methodology that transforms pain points into positive, collaborative questions, guiding the team toward creative solutions.
Impromptu Speech
Impromptu Speech develops communication skills, quick thinking, and creativity through brief and spontaneous presentations on various topics.
Innovation Workshop
The Innovation Workshop fosters creativity and collaboration to generate novel solutions to specific challenges in a dynamic and participatory environment.
Inquiry Workshop
Discover how the Inquiry Workshop fosters critical thinking and collective exploration by generating key questions that guide research, project design, and problem analysis.
Insight Exchange
Insight Exchange allows for the collection of rich perspectives as participants exchange ideas and reflect on shared experiences.
Local Connections Map
The Local Connections Map is a participatory tool for identifying and analyzing existing networks within an environment, promoting collaboration and strengthening key relationships.
My Very First Job
My Very First Job is a participatory activity where people share and listen to personal stories about their first work experiences, creating space for empathy, collective reflection, and recognition of diverse paths and learnings.
Narrative workshop
Engage in a Narrative workshop to share stories, foster empathy, and build collective solutions. Ideal for team building, reflection, and creative problem-solving.
Participatory Escape Room
Participatory Escape Room is a participatory dynamic where a group works collaboratively to solve puzzles and challenges within a limited time, developing critical thinking, effective communication, and creative problem-solving.
Participatory Mapping
Community members collectively map their territory, resources, and needs. Essential for community diagnosis, local public policy, and territorial rights advocacy.
Participatory photography
Empower participants through participatory photography, a creative activity to capture and analyze realities, foster critical reflection, and inspire collective action using visual storytelling.
Pre-mortem
A risk analysis technique where the group imagines the project has already failed and works backwards. Surfaces blind spots, hidden risks, and unspoken concerns while there's still time to act.
Problem Chain
The Problem Chain is a visual and collaborative tool to identify, analyze, and connect the causes and effects of a problem, building strategic solutions.
Prototype gallery
The Prototype gallery is a participatory activity that allows teams to present initial models of their ideas, receive feedback, and collaboratively refine their proposals.
Reading Club
Reading Club is a participatory activity where a group of people gathers to share impressions, ideas, and reflections based on a common text, fostering conversation, active listening, and collective learning.
Risk mapping
Risk mapping is a visual and participatory tool for identifying and analyzing threats and vulnerabilities in a specific area or context, fostering collective strategies for prevention and response.
Role Simulation
Role Simulation is a participatory activity in which participants work in teams to create and act out different scenarios, exploring possible outcomes, dialogues, and decisions.
Root Cause Analysis
Root Cause Analysis uses the fishbone diagram to identify the main causes of a problem and promote effective solutions.
Shared Book Boxes
Shared Book Boxes is a participatory activity that promotes free access to reading through the installation of small community libraries in public spaces. Through collective decoration, book exchange, and shared care, this activity strengthens social bonds, fosters culture, and creatively and collaboratively transforms the environment. It can also be developed in digital form by creating open, themed virtual libraries.
Socratic debate
The Socratic debate is a participatory activity that promotes critical thinking and collective learning through open-ended and reflective questions.
Solution tree
Solution tree is a collaborative activity to analyze problems, identify root causes, and develop actionable solutions. Ideal for fostering teamwork, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving.
Talking Circles
Ancestral practice where all participants have equal voice, turns are regulated by a talking object, and deep listening is cultivated. Widely used in communities, NGOs, and the third sector.
Theory of Change
A participatory framework that maps how a group's activities generate real change. Connects actions, outputs, outcomes, and impact — and makes visible the assumptions that must hold at every link.
Urban Sketching
Urban Sketching is a participatory activity where individuals draw real-life urban or community spaces through direct observation. It encourages artistic expression, fosters a deeper connection with the environment, and transforms everyday places into sources of inspiration and shared reflection.
Urban Treasure Hunt
Urban Treasure Hunt is a participatory activity where groups explore a territory following clues and solving challenges to discover local places, resources, and stories, fostering territorial knowledge and teamwork.
Zine Creation
Zine Creation is an artistic and collaborative activity where participants design and assemble a small handmade publication, exploring a topic from multiple creative perspectives.