Speculative playful co-design activities to help young people imagine a future without cars in Tampere.
Project Summary
Tampere’s “Mobility Mindshift – Co-designing a Mindshift for Sustainable Mobility” pilot project is a two-year Net-City Zero project, in collaboration with the City of Tampere.
Its aim is to address the challenge of reducing mobility-based emissions in Tampere to achieve climate neutrality by 2030. Through transformative, experimental, and people-driven approaches, the project seeks to create a mindshift for students and young adults, by making reflect and imagine new forms of sustainable mobility in Tampere.
The project involves the creation of speculative scenarios for sustainable mobility, by engaging students from vocational colleges and upper secondary schools in co-design workshops. These scenarios will be used to envision future mobility scenarios through urban gamification.
The project also includes activities such as conducting mobility surveys, establishing a network of sustainable mobility lifestyle ambassadors, and organizing thematic days on sustainable mobility in schools.
Members
Mattia Thibault, Vincenzo Idone Cassone, Laura Kastepohja, Selin Agic
Publications
Selin Agic, Laura Chambers, Vincenzo Idone Cassone, and Mattia Thibault. 2025. Speculative Design and Playable Cities: Co-designing a Mindshift in Sustainable Urban Mobility through Urban Gamification. In Proceedings of the 28th International Academic Mindtrek Conference (Mindtrek ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 415–419. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757980.3762122
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