A colourful modular parklet to promote walking and cycling walk to school.
Urban Space Quality
Sense of Safety and Security
Sustainable and Smart Mobility
Innovation on product / organization
Expert competence
Design methods / thinking
Participatory design
Prototyping methods
Institutional capacity
Environmental Awareness
Social Activism
prototyping / testing phase
PRKLT is a colourful modular parklet that aims at improving the public space around schools by creating a sitting, playing and green area in replacement of parking space. The expected result is to improve the areas around schools regarding the issue of heavy traffic during the drop-off and pick up times, by discouraging parents from bringing their children to school by car and promote walking and cycling. Because of its modular nature, PRKLT can be adapted to the need and wishes of the neighbourhood or specific parking space. It is produced in stainless steel with a flexible base that can be placed on several parking spaces.
From a product design perspective, PRKLT is innovative due to its modular nature. This makes it fit the flexible and spontaneous character of the city of Rotterdam. In addition, in comparison with other urban tactile interventions, PRKLT is not expensive to produce and still achieves a good finish in the materials and colours. Ultimately, as an urban design, its innovative character, specifically for the city of Rotterdam, is in its modularity and low budget requirements.
From a value creation perspective, PRKLT has been conceived as a means to open a discussion and achieve in the long term a change of mindset in the local institutions regarding the use and design of public urban spaces around schools. That is the intangible value and therefore real novelty of the project, which other similar interventions may not achieve, as it is needed from the founders to generate or involve existing connections from the city and local government in the process of making the idea a reality in the urban space.
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