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A key aim of the project is to rethink public participation. Users can navigate future construction projects at their own pace and provide feedback directly within the app – simply, intuitively and without any fuss.

This not only ensures greater transparency, but also helps to minimise misunderstandings. After all, when people can experience a project in three dimensions, they grasp the interrelationships, dimensions and potential implications more quickly.

The aim is to make democratic participation by citizens simpler, more accessible and more transparent. Information, interaction and feedback are brought together in a single application, so that all data can be used as easily as possible. AI-powered features help to analyse and summarise this feedback efficiently, without distorting the content.

However, specialists and decision-makers also benefit from a clearer overview of the status of planning, enabling them to coordinate matters more efficiently.

The City of Leipzig is taking part in our project and has provided us with an initial use case. Specifically, this concerns the new “Heiterblick-Süd” neighbourhood” in the east of Leipzig. The aim here is to combine new housing with green spaces and social infrastructure in order to ensure sustainable and forward-looking neighbourhood development.

The city provides us with planning and inventory data, including 3D data, for this purpose and supports us with regular updates on the current status of the planning process. Furthermore, it is actively involved in the requirements analysis and software testing, and contributes its expertise in urban planning processes. The city is also involved – as far as possible – in future public relations work and helps to integrate the application effectively into existing structures and processes.