Picture it: take a picture and share your story

With our mobile first web application, you let citizens give input based on one or more photos. All the photos then come together on a virtual photo board that you can explore together.

It is a fun, new and easy way for citizens to share their views with organisations or governments.

Everything starts with an image

A picture sometimes says more than a thousand words. When we post something on social media like Instagram, Tiktok, but also Facebook, we very often start by selecting an image. ‘Picture it’ responds to this. Users can easily, without an account, submit their picture(s) to answer one or more central questions. Before forwarding, we only ask profile questions and textual explanations as to why they chose the photo:

  • What do you value?
  • How do you see the future?
  • What should not be missing from our collection?
  • …..

Exploring the pictures together and learning from them

All the photos are assembled together on a virtual board. Of course, you can immediately display them on a large screen during a live event. The other option is to let everyone browse through the photos on their own device.

We support exploring the photos with filters: are you looking for specific photos taken by young people, or do you want to select by colour, or…. ? These playful forms of browsing through photos helps to actively deal with the input and to use it further in the process.

The input, photos and text can then be analysed to gain insight into what matters to the use

Tourism Flanders: Abbey of Herkenrode

A beautiful place near Hasselt is getting a new future provided by Tourism Flanders, Herita and the city of Hasselt.

Hundreds of fans of the TV-soap ‘Thuis’ pass through Herkenrode, both local residents and experts. They all get to share what they find most valuable about the site. On big screens, all the gathered photos are shared …

Edubox Identity

Young people can work with the Edubox ‘culture’ on different perspectives surrounding culture. Young people can upload photos and discover together as a class how everyone looks at particular themes.

For example: as they take and share pictures of what it means for them to party, they learn the vastly different ways that people can look at parties. This way sparking a conversation in class