Use case · 2023 · Kosovo
Pristina: Children, Festivals and Blloku 1
In 2023 the platform ran three registers in Pristina at once. Children aged 10–17, convened through municipal Children Councils under the UNDP City Experiment Fund, co-designed child-friendly public spaces over a six-month process: three proposals were finalised and UNDP reported implementation of two initiated by September 2023. In parallel, festival workshops with the Kosovo Architecture Foundation tackled renaturing against heat-island effect, and residents shaped the Blloku 1 neighbourhood regeneration through surveys, workshops and direct voting.
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Who took part
Children aged 10–17 via the municipal Children Councils; architecture students, citizens and stakeholders at the Kosovo Architecture Festival; Blloku 1 neighbourhood residents.
What the tool did
Brainstorming, design roundtables, AI testing workshops and mood boards carried the children’s process from idea to buildable proposal — including an amphitheatre with modular seating and a play-and-seating structure with swings.
What changed
UNDP initiated implementation of two child-designed spaces, and its Geneva office later cited the Prishtina partnership as an example of AI for public involvement in urban planning.
We delivered this project under the brand name of UrbanistAI, in our previous collaboration.
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