A full day workshop was used by different teams to design different plans and negotiate them in different rounds of negotiations. These negotiations were done after short pitches to present principles an objectives of each plan. At each negotiation round, participants would decide on what components of their proposals would be including in the new, negotiated plan. In the end all participants have negotiate a final plan, a negotiation that took some time and highlighted the contested nature of some of the proposals. These illustrated the ongoing discussions about the municipality-led plan, where the redevelopment of Casa do Sal viaducts and a possible new crossing of the Mondego river over the hoopla National Woods have been generating significant debates. On the other hand, new proposals that were not considered at all by the technical tea of the plan (new affordable housing better integration of the new development with the surrounding neighbourhoods and some public facilities) have been discussed, highlighting how important is for a plan such as this one to be well communicated and given to the community to have a say in its design.

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The use of the Geodesign concept - using the Geodesignhub tool - has proven to be very effective among the participants, who stressed the simplicity of the process and its capacity to quickly generate agreed solutions for the plan as a major possibility to build the communities voice.