Category: Tools

Deep dive into an idea

Deep dive into an idea can be used to explore one design concept deeply and compare it to alternative options.

Test and select

Test and select is a form of a spatial survey that can be used to understand ideas and experiences of young children.

Proximity of Care design ideas

Proximity of Care design ideas is a compilation of a few design strategies for child and family-friendly cities. These can serve for inspiration, or as a starting point for co-creation workshop options.

Co-creation workshop

Co-creation workshop sheet will help you think of the main elements of a creative way of co-designing. 

Discussion forum

Discussion forum brings different experts and public together to discuss an interdisciplinary topic. It is a great way to expand your knowledge and ideas, and to identify performance markers for a specific challenge at hand.  

Mood board

A mood board can help you to identify the relations within your project or team, test and refine your ideas, and connect best-practice examples from different fields of practice and knowledge.

Design challenge

Design challenge is a method that can be used for gathering ideas and for raising the visibility of your project.

Shadowing

Shadowing is a tool designed to gain a deep understanding of the experiences of young children, their caregivers and pregnant women through their everyday interactions within various scales of a city.

Design across scales

Design across scales is a template for exploring the impact of your ideas across the home, neighbourhood and city scale.

Core challenge

This tool can help you see the core challenge from different perspectives. It can also help you visualise the wider context, and clarify what to prioritise as the main focus of your work.

Developing a vision

The purpose of this tool is to outline a vision for child and family-friendly development.

Theory of Change

Theory of change template is designed to help you think about behaviours that you aim to change in a home, neighbourhood or city, and in relation to the Proximity of Care Framework. This activity can be done within the project team, or with stakeholder groups you are working with.

Measuring: what and how?

This tool guides you through thinking about evaluating the progress and success of your project.