Chapter 01 completed 10 and 11 April 2026

The topic was chosen by the participants themselves.

A two-day working weekend at Sokol in Malá Strana. 61 residents of Prague 1 chosen by lot went through a strategic map of problems, voted across four pillars and determined for themselves the priority the citizens' assembly will focus on.

Date
10 and 11 April 2026
Venue
Sokol Malá Strana
Participants
61 across two days
Outcome
6 priorities · 1 chosen topic

What this chapter addressed

Participants worked with the Sustainable Development Strategy of the Prague 1 district divided into four pillars (individual, economic, environmental, social-political). The strategy contains dozens of strategic goals — from overtourism through parking capacity to the trustworthiness of the authority.

The aim of the weekend was to choose a topic that is specific, tractable and where real recommendations can be formulated within a horizon of one year. Not everything, but one thing — the most pressing.

WHAT WE DO TODAY / WHAT WE DON'T

  • → We look for priorities across the SUR pillars
  • → We speak from residents' own experience
  • → We prepare the groundwork for the May session
  • × We don't decide on budgets
  • × We don't look for final solutions
  • × We don't tackle everything at once

Communication framing from the presentation

WEEKEND PROGRAMME

Two days. Three neighbourhoods. Four pillars.

Friday was about getting to know each other and mapping what works in Prague 1 and what troubles it. Saturday was about how to pick priorities from a thousand observations — pillar by pillar, by voting.

Friday · 10 Apr 16:00 — 19:30

Day 1 · Neighbourhood expedition

Getting acquainted by years of living in the neighbourhood, a map of the places that work and that trouble, expert inputs.

Detailed schedule 7 blocks · 16:00—19:30
  1. 16:00Registration, coffee, name tags
  2. 16:30Introduction and framing of the weekend
  3. 16:40"We're in this together" — ordering by years in P1 (from a month to 50 years)
  4. 16:55Getting acquainted at the tables by quarter: Old Town · New Town · Malá Strana
  5. 17:40Working with the map — places that work, and places that trouble
  6. 18:30Expert inputs + questions in the plenary
  7. 19:10"A bridge into Saturday" + a marketplace of gifts and needs
Saturday · 11 Apr 08:30 — 16:00

Day 2 · Prioritisation

A systematic pass through the four pillars of the Strategy. Each person formulates, the group seeks an order, the results are compared across tables.

Detailed schedule 6 blocks · 08:30—16:00
  1. 08:30Arrival, breakfast, opening the space
  2. 09:00Framing of the day — what we do today and what we don't
  3. 09:30Pass through the SUR pillars — individual, economic, environmental, social-political (with breaks and lunch)
  4. 14:10Silent gallery — everyone reviews the results of all tables
  5. 14:45Final vote on the TOP priorities
  6. 15:30Results · closing · thanks
A citizens' assembly is about people coming together who care about where they live, and who want it to be a place worth living in.
Assembly participant · from the working-weekend report · April 2026

PRIORITIES ACROSS FOUR PILLARS

What rose to the surface.

From each pillar the participants chose three priorities. Here are the top-ranked topics — the intersections across pillars are visible: housing, transport, trust in the authority.

Individual · human

Life in the centre

  1. 1Short-term accommodation and its negative impacts
  2. 2Improving the quality of life in P1
  3. 3Prevention of social pathologies
Environmental

Public space

  1. 1Traffic safety and air quality
  2. 2Overtourism — cleanliness, noise, quiet at night
  3. 3Adaptation to climate change
Economic

Assets and management

  1. 1A long-term financial strategy for the district
  2. 2Repairs and use of district properties
  3. 3Support for local businesses and services
Social-political

Trust and the authority

  1. 1Communication, openness and transparency of the district office
  2. 2Cooperation between the office and citizens
  3. 3Participatory activities

Prioritisation methodology: 1) each person formulates their own view, 2) the facilitator captures it on a flipchart, 3) the group seeks an order, 4) the results are compared with the other tables.

RESULT OF THE VOTE

Six priorities. One agreement.

In the silent gallery and the two voting rounds, the 61 participants agreed on a set of six priorities across the pillars. The topic with the broadest agreement — across age and quarter of residence — came out unambiguously.

  1. 1
    Short-term accommodation and its negative impacts Individual pillar · the chosen main topic of the assembly
    Main topic
  2. 2
    Safety and flow of traffic · limiting through-traffic, air quality Environmental pillar · "Traffic at rest and in motion"
  3. 3
    Tackle overtourism strategically Alcohol tourism, cleanliness, order, quiet at night, the environment
  4. 4
    Communication, openness and transparency of the district office Social-political pillar
  5. 5
    Repairs and use of the Prague 1 district's real estate Economic pillar
  6. 6
    Raise the quality of life in the Prague 1 district Individual pillar
Short-term accommodation came up many times during the conversations — it was no great surprise that this very topic was chosen as the most pressing.
Report from the working weekend · YouTube recording

MATERIALS

What it was based on.

The weekend's input materials, the programme for participants and the output graphic with the chosen priorities. All available to download.

The whole library of materials
Excerpt from the Proposal section of the Sustainable Development Strategy of the P1 district
XLSX · 21 KB·The input map of pillars and goals
Programme of the working weekend for participants (10 and 11 Apr)
DOCX · 15 KB·The schedule for both days
Day 2 presentation · goal, prioritisation methodology, pass through the pillars
PDF · excerpt from PPTX·Saturday 11 Apr 2026
Poster "Results of the working meeting" — 6 chosen priorities
JPG · 3 MB·The weekend's output visual

CHAPTER OUTCOMES

What happens next.

Short-term rentals became the main topic of the following chapter. The participants returned to it in May — at Kino 64 U Hradeb — and began to formulate concrete recommendations.

4 pillars of the Sustainable Development Strategy from which the choice was made
6 priorities with the broadest support across the pillars
1 chosen main topic of the assembly Short-term rentals and their impacts
Continue to chapter 02 · Short-term rentals Everything in the library of materials