Participatory design studio · Belgium · 2025
Re/Move
Designing the trip to school with children, not for them.
The brief, child-sized
A participatory design project exploring safer and more sustainable school travel in Genk. Through co-creation with children, parents, and teachers, we identified everyday mobility barriers in the route to school.
From a kid's eye-level.
The barriers children mapped, in their own words.
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Traffic
Cars that don't slow down at the zebra.
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Rain
And no one wants to bike to school wet.
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Distance
Too far to walk, too close to drive.
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Friends
Going alone is the actual barrier.
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Dogs
One barking dog can rewrite a whole route.
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Bags
Heavy on small shoulders.
How we worked
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Hosted co-creation sessions with children as primary designers, not subjects.
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Mapped barriers from a child's eye-level: weather, traffic, fear, distance, friends.
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Prototyped playful tools rather than infrastructural fixes.
Outcome
Games co-designed with children to build bike readiness, and small decision-making tools that support parent–child conversations around how to travel to school.