Quick Participatory Doughnut Mapping - Version 2.0

Overview

This is a quick participatory Doughnut mapping tool that invites people to reflect on how their place is currently doing across various dimensions, connected to the social and ecological, local and global perspectives of the Doughnut. Participants map their perceptions by using red or green dots. Red means that their place is not doing so well. Green means that their place is doing well.

Originally created by the DEAL team, the canvas is now being adapted to increase user-friendliness and clarity. Future versions will continuously be updated on this page. 

What changes did we do?

First, we adjusted the dimensions to better reflect our context.

Second, and the main iteration, was regarding the division line between the global and local perspectives. Here, we transformed them into arrows and introduced a scale. The scale ranges from: safe & just space - not so good - quite bad - bad. This gives participants clearer guidance when placing their dots and enables more nuanced judgments about how well or badly a place is performing across a given dimension. 

Third, we sharpened the visual distinction between the social foundation and ecological ceiling to ensure participants understand the difference and engage with all dimensions. 
Fourth, we added clear labels for participants, so they can add another dimension they find relevant for the Doughnut Portrait.

Why use it?

• Get started applying Doughnut Economics on the ground by exploring the social and ecological reality of their locality
• Get a quick understanding of how participants judge their lived experiences within a place
• Makes visible what your locality is doing well and not so well
• Raises awareness and starts conversations
• Serves as a starting point for a Doughnut Portrait that can be enriched in a second step with data from statistics

How to use it?

Originally the DEAL Team give three suggestions on how to use to tool: as a standalone 10 minute exercise, as a a  standalone 1-2 hour workshop or as an exercise as part of a wider Doughnut Portrait process.

We have used our iterated tool in two ways. The first was during a fair where we directly engaged with various people who came to our stand and quickly asked them to map their perceptions on the poster. The second was without any guidance from us. We hang up the poster with instructions and left it unattended for a few weeks, allowing people to respond entirely on their own. 

How to adapt it?

You can adapt the different dimensions based on your own context and needs.

Additionally, any other adaptations are more than welcome, and feel free to further experiment and share back your insights, so we can collaboratively learn from this process.

What materials do you need?

• Canvas printed on a big poster
• Red and green sticky dots (or alternative red and green pens)
• Pens or post-its

Acknowledgements

The original tool was designed by Leonora Grcheva, Kate Raworth and Ruurd Priester (graphics) from the DEAL team, with support from Rob Shorter. 

The iteration was created by Duc Chu and Johanna Svea Weigel.

Links

The DEAL team's original Quick Participatory Doughnut Mapping Tool:
https://doughnuteconomics.org/tools/quick-participatory-doughnut-mapping