Project Conclusion & Expert Conference

15th September 2025 · Hamburg

Urban planning thrives on the feedback from urban society - but the evaluation of this feedback is often time-consuming and not very standardised. This is precisely where the DIPAS_analytics project comes in. Since 2023, we have been working on the project in Hamburg to analyse participation processes more efficiently with the help of AI and urban data. The aim is to support project managers effectively in monitoring their ongoing process and in the subsequent evaluation of participation results - in a transparent, comprehensible and connectable way.

During the participation process, the DIPAS_analytics live dashboard helps to maintain an overview and facilitate targeted moderation. After completing a participation process, DIPAS_analytics Insights helps to pre-structure the textual and geo-referenced feedback in such a way that a faster, more organised and more efficient evaluation is possible.

The combination with urban geodata and AI-supported evaluation methods creates a new quality standard: experiences and perspectives from urban society are systematically linked with administrative data in order to make decision-making processes targeted, evidence-based and orientated towards people's needs. The tool supports the project managers in analysing their participation process according to their individual logic and questions. The final responsibility for the content of the evaluation always remains in human hands.

Over the past two and a half years, important foundations have been laid in Hamburg. The aim was to systematically utilise the local knowledge of civil society. To achieve this, it needed to be automatically pre-structured, manually checked and processed and meaningfully linked. The results can then be visualised - for administration, politics and the public.

At the end of the project, we are now inviting you to an expert conference that will combine technological insights, practical learnings and discussions about strategies, methodology and ethical issues.

We will be presenting the technical and methodological concept of DIPAS_analytics, while inviting critical discussions and seeking to develop it further together with the specialist public.

The conference is designed as a specialist symposium with a peer review character: a place for open exchange, reflection and impulses for the further development of AI-supported evaluation in participation processes.