The School Stop - A Future Prototype for Children´s Mobility Environments

Purpose and goal:

The "School Stop 2045" project aims to create a future prototype for children´s mobility in a car-free city, focusing on their journeys to and from school. Through speculative design, it seeks to promote changes in school and urban planning, enhance children´s movement freedom, and investigate car-free city center effects. The goal is to develop, test, and evaluate a physical school stop prototype, engage students, parents, and community stakeholders in a co-design process, and contribute to the car-free cities mobility debate.

Expected results and effects:

Expected effects and results of "School Stop 2045" include insights into improved physical and social health for children through increased physical activity and reduced car dependence. In the long term, the project is expected to contribute to better air quality and lower CO2 emissions, as well as enhance children´s freedom of movement and safety on the way to school.

It will generate insights into children´s actual needs, promote sustainable transport solutions, and inspire changes in urban planning and mobility systems both locally and nationally. Approach and implementation:

Co-design: Mapping behaviors and conducting workshops with students, parents, school staff, and mobility experts to create the basis for designing the school stop´s mobility solution.

Production and Implementation: Using recycled materials from Luleå´s large "material garden," the school stop is designed and implemented at a chosen location for user feedback.

Communication and Dissemination (ongoing): Development of a communication plan, press releases, campaign site, and social media, along with a vernissage to present the project results.