The mandate to imagine.
CoPlanAI turns a community’s imagination into documented evidence of what people can agree to want — a defensible public mandate, not AI pictures.
Get in touch →“More green and places to sit” — answered with planters, benches and golden light.
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Coplanning: where three kinds of knowledge meet
Interactive diagram. Use Tab to move between the three roles, their overlaps and the centre; the description panel updates for each.
The coplanning framework
Will people propose what you do not have, or respond to what you show — and is the brief still open, or already defined? The square you land in is your task. Open a square to see what it asks for; the work beside it is every engagement we have run there.
CoPlanning actions
Ministries, city halls, universities, development agencies and design practices. What they get back is not a picture — it is evidence a council can act on.
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Gjerdrum · Norway
43 timber homes, as drawn
most cities call us before anything is decided
“AI can imagine anything. Only a community can give it a mandate.”
A link is the key
no account, no name — anyone the poster reaches can take part
from rung four, every claim carries a named document
Our clients
and partners
93 organisations — ministries, city halls, universities, development agencies and design practices
Planners and residents, arguing over the same picture
Tallinn
München
Bologna
Vantaa
Lahti
Jyväskylä
Kaarina
The platform for planners and citizens to coplan the city
One engagement, two surfaces. Planners run it from the Studio; the street takes part from a phone with no account. The same record carries both sides — and it is the real product below, not a mock-up.
CoPlan Studio
The desktop workspace where a planning team turns a written brief into checked, rendered design options.
The Configurator
Where an engagement is set up: six lines that decide what is asked, of whom, and what the participant's phone will say.
The participant app
What a resident holds: a street, a question, and their own idea coming back as a picture — with no account at any point.
The latest, from the field
Connective Cities (GIZ / Engagement Global)AI-based Visualisation for Affordable Housing and Informal Settlement Upgrading↗
Comune di Bologna — PartecipaTICO — Officina della Conoscenza, Bologna↗
Copernicus / ICUC12Engaging Vulnerable Urban Populations in Co-Designing Climate-Resilient Public Spaces↗
Connective Cities (GIZ / Engagement Global)AI-based Visualisation for Sustainable & Affordable Housing↗
ULA LabsULA Labs distributed-learning workshop on Twekkelerveld, Enschede↗
CityLAB BerlinStadtmöbel gemeinsam gebaut: Wie Beteiligung im Kiez sichtbar bleibt↗
Univ. of TurkuEnvisioning Nature-Integrated Urban Spaces↗
arXivWeDesign: Generative AI-Facilitated Community Consultations↗
Univ. of VaasaUrban studies expert Sampo Ruoppila appointed Professor of Practice↗
Bring the next plan to the people who will live in it
Tell us the place and what has already been decided, and we will tell you which task it is and what an engagement would look like on your streets.