Initially, we lean towards having the double diamond as a methodology. However, the method is only as a support and the content and scope of the steps will be adapted by the events that arise in the interaction of participating parties. The parties are varied on the various occasions when we keep an open opportunity for participating parties to join the work successively or alternatively drop out of the work.
The double diamond method contains four steps, as you can see in the picture above.
Step 1, Discover
The first diamond helps people understand. In this step, the Kindalabbet, including all partners, identified reasons and barriers to people feeling lonely and barriers to participating in community. Some of the reasons identified are the risk factors listed in the background section, for example loss of a partner who held the social network together. Without him, no contact surfaces.
Step 2, Define
The insights from the discovery phase help us define the challenge in a different way. Areas that were discovered caused the lab to also ask the question of reasons for commitment by municipal residents and obstacles to getting involved/participating in community. One reason for getting involved was that when you give, you get something back. Meaningfulness is created. An aggravating factor for participating in the community that makes me not dare can be a lack of self-esteem, to feel interesting to someone/ have something to contribute. Help to get over the threshold can be that someone, for example a neighbor, takes me to a meeting place/activity and this in turn can give an increased self-esteem which means that the person then dares to go there himself.
Step 3, Develop
Based on the first two steps, the need arose to coordinate activities in order to have an overall picture of the range of activities in Kinda. They have happened because all 17 parties have reported over 70 different activities, which shows a large range in a small municipality. Here there is a need for a common calendar to prevent clashes between activities, a smooth dialogue between organizations and channels for residents to take part in all the offerings. There is thus a desire for matching between supply and demand.
Step 4, Deliver
In this step, different solutions to the basic problem should be tested and the solutions that do not work should be rejected. The following key questions/possibilities need to be solved, but have not yet had time to be tested: How do we share the information about the supply through a common calendar? How do we reach those who do not reach us? Can associations co-plan to prevent activity clashes? Can it be arranged to be accompanied to activities for those who are less mobile? Those who want to contribute with accompaniment to activities - how can they be caught? And how can these be rewarded, for example, at the local business operator after volunteering? A reward could be a discount on or a Friday bouquet at the local florist. And it also leads to the question: what does the business community get out of being part of this work with rewarding voluntary effort?
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