For municipalities
Explore possible uses for a public facility
Clarify possible uses, local demand, and who could operate the facility.
Public asset reuse,
starting from the thinking.
PUBLIC 0 is operated by the Institute for Social Vision Design (ISVD). For municipalities and private operators, it publishes articles on the rules and on real cases, and takes on studies, policy groundwork, dialogue and proposal preparation.
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PICK UP
What do you want
to move forward now?
Pick the information and the help that match where you are.
For private operators
Assess a public-facility business
Review demand, costs, and contract terms to inform a go or no-go decision.
For municipalities
Prepare dialogue and procurement
Define the dialogue topics, procurement conditions, and documents you will need.
For everyone
Research public-facility policy and cases
Browse articles on school reuse, Park-PFI, and other policies and cases.
SERVICE
Build the support
from the stages you need.
You do not have to commission the whole thing at once. We set out the work and the deliverables that match how far your review has got.
See how it works and what it costs →
01
Research and analysis
We gather what a decision rests on: the rules, the published material, the conditions on site.
02
Policy and planning
We set out the options to compare and the next thing to decide, matched to the area and the facility.
03
Dialogue and terms
We decide who has to be asked what, among the municipality, operators and people in the area, and build the dialogue around it.
04
Proposals and delivery
We turn it into the documents used for tenders, proposals, briefings and public communication.
RESEARCH
Look up the rules, the cases
and how it is done.
Search by word or browse by theme. You can find both the information and the document it came from.
JOURNAL
Latest articles
Asahi's sports facilities: examining use and access before the next management term
Asahi's November 10 market sounding examines facility use, transport access and the possible transfer of sports programmes for people with disabilities. We separate published facts from questions for the next management term.
Asahi's bundled facility management dialogue: scope and existing contracts
Read Asahi's November 4 market-sounding notice by separating the five-year assumption from its single-year reference budget, and mapping excluded tasks, undecided work and existing contracts before joining the dialogue.
Kobe Rokko Island land lease: reading the preferred-bidder announcement
Read Kobe’s Rokko Island land lease at the preferred-bidder stage, separating announced rent, area and plans from contract terms requiring verification.
OPERATOR & CONTACT
Our operator and your project.
Institute for Social Vision Design
We support research, planning and dialogue for the reuse of public assets.
We confirm the responsible organisation, scope and fee before you engage us.
Creative work and contracting arrangements
For naming, websites, briefing materials and publicity, we identify the appropriate creative team.
If a separate contract or information sharing is needed, we explain the scope and confirm your preferences.
START A CONVERSATION
You can talk to us before your thinking is settled.
Tell us whether a facility has been chosen and what is giving you trouble. We will go through it and set out what we can take on and how it would run.
The first conversation is free
Ask about the work and the fees