Cities and our very lives have become hybrid: they exist in the physical reality as well as in the digital dimension. How can we ensure that the hybrid cities of the future are democratic and participatory and that we can all have a voice in shaping them? We need to rethink modes of participation and engagement so that they better fit the realities of our digital age. We already engage casually with a plethora of mundane digital tools, and have developed digital everyday practices. At the same time, there is a gap between the different levels of proficiency in the way people casually handle and operate with 'the digital'. In my work, I go back to understandings of participation defined in the fields of urban planning and information technology and propose the matrix of multiple participations as a tool to explore possible ways in which participation and engagement can take place in the hybrid city.