Dugnad Vesterbro is an initiative with people from a local area in Copenhagen, Vesterbro, getting together to solve drug related problems in their part of the city. It is social design of solutions to drug problems.

Despite thirty years of eager efforts to remove hard drugs from the area, Vesterbro is still the place in Denmark with the most drug addicts and this creates great problems for residents, businesses and indeed the drug addicts themselves. Therefore, politicians, residents, social workers and the police all support opportunities for new solutions.
In September 2005 residents, experts and authorities met in an interdisciplinary forum to put together a diverse catalogue of ideas. They came up with 101 solutions to the problem.

A workshop was then set up called Design Dugnad which brought creative professionals and drug addicts from the area together to come up with fresh ideas to this increasing conflict. The workshop provided ideas for social design relating to the 101 solutions to the problem and developed concrete proposals for implementation.

The first fruit of these unusual meetings was the planning and realization of a Dugnad Center with multiple purposes. The Dugnad Center is a place for residents of the area to meet with the purpose of creating better understanding between the different conflicting parties. The drug addicts that have nowhere to go can meet the people that are tired of used needles and users fixing openly in the streets. The Center also provides nursing, conflict mediation, different activities and a place to stay for the addicts.