The Design for Urban Change Toolkit is a workshop tool designed to support teams, communities, and organizations in imagining and shaping responses to urban challenges. Rooted in a people-first, design-driven approach, it offers a flexible process for exploring local contexts, generating ideas, and testing strategies for change.

Whether you are activating a public space, addressing a neighbourhood issue, or building a new initiative, the toolkit can help you frame challenges, map relationships, imagine outcomes, and take action with care.

The Design for Urban Change Toolkit is a workshop-based resource created to help teams, communities, and organizations explore challenges and design strategies for meaningful change in cities.

Developed through years of experience in public space work across Sweden, Lebanon, and Türkiye, the toolkit guides users through a flexible, people-first process rooted in creativity, collaboration, and systems thinking.

It is ideal for:
- Civic and cultural organizations
- Municipal teams
- Urban activists and designers
- Community-led initiatives
- Cross-sector partnerships

What’s inside?
The toolkit includes a growing set of cards and canvases, each designed to support different parts of your journey from framing the challenge to testing ideas and building lasting relationships.

Toolkit components:
- Process Cards
- Prompt Cards to situate your challenge, define your context, and imagine outcomes
- Strategic Approach Cards
- Methods Cards with research and intervention tactics
- Theory & Concepts Cards for deeper reflection and framing
- The Canvas: Map the challenge, process, and the stakeholders

Co-developed by the ALF Swedish network member, Creative Insights Studio in Helsingborg.

More information: www.creativeinsights.studio/design-for-urban-change-toolkit