NEXTLOGIC: Method Library

Participation, co-creation and engagement methods for any process that involves people. Pick one by what you are trying to achieve and by the constraints you actually have.

Who this is for

Anyone designing a participatory process — in a city, an organisation, a research project or a company
Facilitators looking for a method that fits the room, the budget and the time they actually have
Teams choosing between options and needing to know what a method delivers before committing to it

Working on a NEXTLOGIC pilot? The Pilot Toolbox tags a subset of these methods by pilot and by intervention type.

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Open the 60+ methods →

Method Library

Seven views. Filter by goal, phase, participation level, setting, group size and domain.

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Start here

Decide what you are trying to achieve — that is the Goal tag, and it is the primary way in.
Narrow by the constraints you actually have: what phase you are in, whether it must run online, how many people will be in the room, how much effort you can afford.
Check the participation level before committing. It states the highest degree of influence the method genuinely gives people. Promising more than the method delivers is the most common way participation loses credibility.
Open the sheet. Every method has the same structure: what it is · when to use · steps · materials · output · watch out for · sources.

The six filters

Filter	What it tells you
Goal	MAP · ONBOARD · ENGAGE · ALIGN · NEGOTIATE · CO-CREATE · EVALUATE
Phase	Explore → Define → Design → Test → Scale. Where in the process the method sits
Participation level	Team internal · Inform · Consult · Involve · Collaborate · Empower. How much influence people actually get
Setting	In-person · Online · Hybrid
Group size	1–8 · 8–25 · 25–100 · open to the public
Domain	Where the method has an evidence base. Most are domain-agnostic

The seven goal clusters

Cluster	Purpose
🗺️ MAP	Understand who is involved, what they want, and where the tensions sit
🤝 ONBOARD	Bring the right people to the table
🔄 ENGAGE	Keep them active over months, not weeks
🎯 ALIGN	Move divergent views toward shared ground
⚖️ NEGOTIATE	Handle incompatible goals without manufacturing false consensus
🛠️ CO-CREATE	Produce concrete solutions together
📈 EVALUATE	Find out whether any of it worked, and learn from it

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101238585