In Finland, The Ministry of the Environment guidelines on safety and accessibility of built environment will be updated soon. What new could they bring in along the update? Shifting Gear is a project aiming to assist The Ministry of the Environment in supplying guidelines with material that opens up the need behind the regulations. Provided with the ‘why’ in the regulations, planners will have a better chance to empathise with the final user. 
This concept proposal focuses on changing the process of guideline development, opening it up to more active citizen participation. 

Shifting gear is a concept of the possible communication strategy that allows The Ministry of Environment to produce valid guidelines independently from regulation writing process. Proposal embraces the idea of creating a long term strategic partnership the wider groups of actors. Particular attention in the project was paid to quick prototyping of solutions and rendering 
systematic vision of the field. Traditional process of communication that Ministry executes is missing the link in between the government and publics. The Ministry of Environment is seen as a main client in this concept proposal. Information input and output from the Ministry itself were chosen as points of intervention with the major intention of suggesting an alternative to monologue style 
of legislative affairs. Alongside with this procedural change in within the Ministry is being suggested. 

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