The corona crisis is hitting large parts of the global economy hard and severely reducing social life. The severely restrictive measures to minimize social contacts would also lead to a decrease in interest of the shared design of the urban environment. However, the opposite is true. Participation platforms for the design of urban space have changed in order to face the crisis and find answers to the current challenges. This article examines why participation platforms are becoming more successful despite or due to the corona crisis and would like to research the causes of this resilience. For this purpose, 26 participation platforms in urban space serve as a basis for research. All platforms offer the highest level of participation in self-governance, so that citizens can design their living space independently. On the basis of three case studies, the persistence, adaptability and transformability of the platforms are described. The reasons for this were, among other things, the close ties to the project initiators and the strong sense of social responsibility as well as flat hierarchies and a lived error culture.
Crisis and Change: Fallstudie zur Untersuchung der Resilienz als Erfolgsfaktor von Partizipationsplattformen während der Coronakrise