LEGO como herramienta de participación

Interesante artículo (como siempre) de CityLab acerca del acercamiento de los procesos de participación a sistemas de interacción, conocidos por una gran mayoria de ciudadanos, incluidos los niños.

Un estracto:

The aim is to make the urban planning process more transparent by getting everyone involved—not just experts like Zegras. “Part of our idea with introducing these types of tools is to break away from the technocratic model of planning,” he says. “So we’ve try to make a very initial foray into opening up those processes a bit more.”
And what’s more accessible and familiar than Legos? “The platform lowers the the threshold of participation because every kid knows how to move a Lego piece,” says Phil Tinn, a masters student at MIT, who is also part of the team.