Our key objective is to build capacity for democratic landscape transformation among the urban and peri-urban communities of Guimarães, Portugal, the European Green Capital 2026. We plan to achieve this by transferring knowledge and good practices from three European organisations that have actively developed methodical innovation in citizen participation over the past years: LE:NOTRE Institute (NL), Commonspace (GR) and Kulturaktiv (HU) together with the Landscape Laboratory of Guimarães.