 Do you think you can easily express your personal opinions in urban development projects? I'm afraid many of you say no. In this presentation we will ask if public participation can be realized in a smarter way. Can digitalization help to realize participation without shouting? Still the reality often looks like this. We organize a lot of public events, workshops and meetings to discuss with people. Usually we get only few people to show up and we also know in advance what they want to say. Maybe some of you have been in this situation being able to share your thoughts, but most of you have been sitting silent. Information we collect in these events often remains hard to handle and analyze afterwards. Typically the end result looks like this. We get a bunch of positive stickers that are very hard to process further. We have not been happy with these existing approaches and methods. Urban planning and design obviously happens in places. Therefore we have wanted to find a way to develop place-based public engagement. Our dream was to make broader public participation possible by using innovative digital tools. Naturally, place-based data collection should happen online to guarantee the collection of very large data sets. Our innovation adds a whole new soft information layer to geographic information system on top of the traditional hard data layers of the system. Our vision has come true. Currently there are over 7,000 projects done with the Mapsheneer platform in over 30 countries. We have been happy to follow how creatively cities like New York, Denver and Stockholm are using Mapsheneer. It has to be easy for the residents to participate and fun also for the experts to create tools exactly fitting their projects. According to our experiences, it really is possible to reach high number of participants with reasonable effort. We can reach new residents groups like children and young people and minority language groups. People can also participate individually without being influenced by group opinion. Even more importantly, we have been able to produce high-quality usable knowledge from people to planners. The place-based data is easy to integrate into existing systems. Planners have also been happy to get positive feedback from the residents, sometimes for the first time ever. We have been rather surprised how eager cities actually have been to try map-based and other digital tools. They have been willing to test new tools and learn new practices. The collective knowledge has in many cases made a real difference. Welcome to participate in our workshop. Participation without consensus tomorrow in Hafen City University. We want to discuss with you how smart participation can be realized throughout the planning process. Come and share your thoughts on how we can bring together various tools, information and people to create more livable and lovable places in the future.