About Outring project

Transparency Note

This is a demonstration project created as part of a job application. All content is demo content created for illustrative purposes. While inspired by real G124 projects, the experiences shared here are fictional examples designed to demonstrate platform capabilities.

Why This Project Exists

G124 is a rare and valuable example of urban periphery regeneration done well. It brings architects, professionals, and residents together from the very beginning, treating people in the neighbourhoods as active participants in the design process, not passive recipients.

OutRing is an independent, narrative-driven platform inspired by Renzo Piano’s G124. Its stories follow people through all the different phases of G124 projects, from early listening and co-design to the new everyday life that follows, showing how these initiatives are truly lived. They are told both through journalists, who interview residents and write reportages, and directly by residents themselves with editors’ support.

Ethically and socially, the project’s goal is to put residents’ voices at the centre and counter the usual negative narratives about peripheries (crime, decay, “problems”), showing that positive, everyday changes in people’s lives are possible when people themselves are involved in the process.

How OutRing tells these stories

OutRing is a small editorial platform designed around a single idea: **one rich “Experience” content type, explored from different angles**.

In practice, that means:

Experiences as the core content
Each Experience represents a lived story from the inhabitants’ point of view—whether it’s written by a journalist (editorial reportage) or co-written with residents (community story).

Multiple perspectives on the same reality
Experiences can be first-person, multi-voice, or collective. Fields capture things like participation phase (from initial listening to new everyday life), themes (e.g. public space, safety, kids & play), and place (city, neighbourhood).

Relational structure instead of silos
Experiences are linked to Themes and Places, so visitors can browse by time, topic, or location rather than being forced into a single “list of projects”.

Participatory-friendly workflow
The content model supports both editorially produced community-submitted stories. For editorial content, journalists identify key neighborhood topics, talk to people in the neighbourhood, and write reportages. For community submissions, residents propose stories (feature currently in development), editors partner with these residents to refine and publish their perspectives.

The name
“OutRing” plays on “outer ring”, as in the areas outside the city centre, and on “to outring”, as in to ring louder. The idea is that the periphery can out-ring the centre in energy, life, and stories.

Design note
OutRing is a developer-first prototype, built to showcase technical capabilities. I’ve applied my usual principles to keep the interface clean, readable, and accessible, but it hasn’t gone through my usual full UX/UI design process.