I’ve updated the Sustainable Mobility Kit with a DIY card to make the kit more effective and relevant to users by enabling anyone to make cards that represent the unique nature of their context and perspectives.
Earlier this year the Open Source Lab released the Sustainable Mobility Kit, an open workshop tool comprising a set of 21 printed cards to incite active engagement in the research results that developed the Sustainable Open Mobility Taxonomy. The kit can be applied in transport planning collaboration, policy making, education, training, design ideation or innovation sprints.
The cards were tested in workshops which highlighted their usefulness as a training and sense making tool. Particularly for individuals and teams in larger organisations that work as part of the transport sector but in siloes, the cards provided a balance of introductory knowledge, systems thinking insights including feedback loops and identification of potential relationships between different elements and actors.
Accommodating context and alternate ideas
Feedback from workshop participants showed that some scope to appropriate the cards according to the user’s perspective would be ideal. During the workshops many participants improvised their own cards from materials at hand, inventing ways to make the cards applicable to differing contexts and actors. To encourage this kind of spontaneous and individualised adaptation of the card deck in future use cases, additional cards were designed and are now included in every deck so that topics or stakeholders can be created by participants intuitively.
The Sustainable Mobility Kit deck (with DIY card) is available for download here or at the Open Source Lab GitHub repository.
Tina Gallico 