Daegu City Launches Youth Participation 'Citizen Design Team' ... Creating Part-Time Job Care Policy

'Wondosim Project' Transforming Modern Architecture into Youth Cultural Spaces

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Dong-wook] On the afternoon of the 19th, Daegu City held a launch ceremony for the Citizen Design Group at City Hall and actively promoted the policy of involving youth in the design of future policy tasks.

Daegu City's 'Citizen Design Group' is a project promoted to overcome the shortcomings of the existing policy design method and reduce the failure rate by discovering hidden demands of citizens together with citizens, public officials, and service designers, and finding solutions together.

In particular, this year, the support for the National Design Group project fund, which had been promoted through a contest by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety until last year, has been discontinued, so Daegu City is independently promoting the project. Daegu City received special grant funds of 130 million won as an excellent case through the Ministry of the Interior and Safety's service designer support project contest for two consecutive years from 2018 to 2019 under the National Design Group project.

The core tasks of this year's Citizen Design Group are ▲ the 'Youth Part-time Job Care Project' to remedy labor rights worsened by the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) ▲ and the 'Old Downtown Regeneration Project' transforming modern architectural assets into youth complex cultural spaces. Regional youths, who are the policy demanders, participate in these projects as Citizen Design Group members in groups of 3 to 4.

At the kickoff meeting held simultaneously with the launch ceremony on the 19th, 19 members of the Citizen Design Group attended, divided roles, and discussed future tasks. Daegu City plans to hold seven workshop-style meetings aiming for the final performance presentation in November.

Kim Jeong-gi, Director of Planning and Coordination Office of Daegu City, said, "I hope many fresh and diverse ideas will be gathered through the experiences and capabilities of young people," and added, "We will continue to create policies that young people can actually feel together with local youth."

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