From the horse´s mouth: biodiversity in future mobility.

Purpose and goal:

The project aims to promote biodiversity and increase awareness of the connection between plants, animals, and humans. The goal is to initiate a dialogue about our relationship with animals and nature, their inherent values, and the potential, yet untapped, benefits for our well-being in an increasingly urbanised world where challenges such as built, hard surfaces for housing and roads are becoming more prominent.

Through this dialogue, we strive to understand people´s thoughts and feelings about a possible future coexistence with animals and nature in urban environments. Expected results and effects:

1: An in-depth future scenario that is clearly anchored in signals and societal challenges we observe today. By illustrating an everyday experience in a future mobility system, the future scenario will be used as the basis for the future prototype being developed. The scenario should challenge and encourage dialogue.

2: A physical future prototype that provides the experience of mobility in an ecological corridor. 3: The future prototype has been displayed and communicated in different formats and channels. Approach and implementation:

The project is divided into three work packages. In WP1 (May-September), foresight methodology is used to develop and deepen the future scenario, for example, through environmental scanning and signal spotting. In WP2 (August-December), an iterative design process is used to design and create a future prototype to embody the future scenario.

The result is a future prototype that provides the experience of an ecological corridor for mobility. WP3 (May-January) aims to disseminate the future prototype and gather insights from visitors´ experiences of the prototype.