A complete method you hand to the AI you already use, so it returns stakeholder maps, diagnostics, timelines and ready-to-run workshops. What used to take you weeks — with rigour, in a fraction of the time.
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Designing a serious participatory process eats up weeks of scattered work: loose documents, maps drawn by hand, workshops improvised on the fly. the method orders all of that and speeds it up
It doesn't replace your judgement: it amplifies it. The method structures your AI so every conversation produces something usable, instead of generic answers that don't hold up in a real process.
An example project — schoolyards in a neighbourhood — run through the method. Each tool produces a different result, ready to use.
The Collective Intelligence Canvas diagnoses the 12 points of your process. Tap it: red is what's still missing.
The Civic Field Matrix maps stakeholders and proposes the order to engage them based on your process's legitimacy.
The Circular Process places your project in its phases and orders activities over time.
The Co-Design Canvas turns ideas into real sessions: objective, dynamic, materials and duration.
You hand your AI a system of instructions that turns it into a civic design companion: it knows what to ask, in what order, with what rigour. The difference between a generic answer and an output you use.
The method makes the AI always start from your territory, your actors, your tensions. Every output comes anchored to your context, citing the specifics of your process — not filling a template.
The included templates make the AI produce visual, structured results — the map, the dashboard, the timeline, the cards — that you can review, iterate and bring to a meeting or a team.
The method is built to surface gaps and tensions — the risk of an empty process, the forgotten actor, the phase with no activities — so you decide with judgement before committing.
It's not a shortcut to fake participation. It's a tool to design it with more judgement and less wasted effort, and make better decisions at every step.
The instruction documents you hand to your chat to turn it into a civic design companion. Ready to copy and paste.
Collective Intelligence Canvas, Civic Field Matrix, Co-Design Canvas and Circular Process, translated into modules the AI knows how to use.
The code and instructions so the AI returns the timeline, the map, the dashboard and the cards as visual objects.
Included in the package: it walks you through every stage of the method with your own project, explaining in detail what to do at each moment. From zero to a designed process.
You hand the documents to your AI and, with the included course as your guide, you come out with your process designed end to end.
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Any modern AI chat: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and others. The method is documents and instructions you hand to the AI; it doesn't depend on any specific platform or on paying for extra tools.
No. If you can open a chat and paste text, you can use it. The included guided course explains every step in detail, whether you know Civic Design or are starting from scratch.
Quite the opposite. It removes the mechanical work — structuring, mapping, preparing materials — so you spend your time on what only you can do: judgement, relationships, facilitation in the room. The outputs are your starting point, not your replacement.
A single package with everything: the system for your AI, the four tools, the visual output templates and the guided course. One-time payment, permanent access, and method updates as they come.
Spanish, English, Italian and French. The method works in any of them.
Domenico Di Siena is an architect, urbanist and civic designer, with over twenty years of experience designing participation and collective intelligence processes in territories and communities across Europe and Latin America.
He is the author of Diseño Cívico — Collective Intelligence for Public and Social Innovation and creator of the Civic Design Method. Through Public Mesh he develops his editorial work around civic design, and he is Community & Membership Lead at Democratic Society.