Using Co-Creative Workshops to Explore Bicycle Parking Issues in Amsterdam
Client: Amsterdam Municipality || Internship project at STBY
Cycling is often seen as a sustainable and healthy behaviour, however, a city should be able to accommodate this behaviour. In Amsterdam, there are re-occurring issues with bicycle parking due to the massive amount of cyclists.
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STBY took a hyper-local design approach in this issue. Streets were observed to pinpoint bicycle parking behaviours of local citizens, and several co-creative sessions with creative probes were conducted to stimulate constructive dialogues in a stratified sample.
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Mainly involved in: visual content creation.
Design Outcome
Besides behavioural and contextual insights, one of the outputs in this project were various 'inspirational images'. These did not serve as final intervention concepts, but rather showed the stakeholders new ways of thinking about bicycle parking issues and regulations.
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Image on the left: a bicycle parking app to distribute the parking load evenly across the city through crowd-sourced data.
Image on the right: an example of 'positive regulation', showing appreciation for correct bicycle parking.
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Images were taken from STBY, for more information about the project:
What did I learn about?
Design research: using photography as an observation tool, assisting in workshop facilitations.
Visualisation: using Photoshop and Illustrator to visualise research outputs.