• Exploring new possibilities
• Reducing the burden of care work
• Improving participation in mobility

We want to identify the potential for using on-demand services, particularly to reduce the burden on care workers (e.g., child drop-off services) and to improve general participation in mobility. Real-world laboratory research in this area can be carried out using on-demand projects funded by MUKMAV.

«How can barriers be removed?» «Where are there gaps in the provision of mobility services?» «How do political incentives work?» «What influence do targeted mobility services have on mobility behavior?»

Under the motto “Shared taxi instead of parent taxi”, a new mobility service for leisure travel by children and young people is to be created, advertised, and tested as a pop-up measure over a period of several weeks and then evaluated.

• Empowerment
• Children's mobility needs
• Concepts for routes to school and daycare centers
• General conditions for independent mobility

The city of Saarlouis and the Saarbrücken Regional Association are primarily responsible for mobility issues at schools and daycare centers. They pursue a systemic empowerment approach that focuses on the mobility needs of children while also addressing the broader framework conditions.

«How can motorized private transport be reduced?» «What controls are necessary?» «What factors are relevant for the acceptance of everyday cycling?» «How are local stakeholders involved?»

A pop-up measure is to be developed, tested, and evaluated with a view to achieving “independent children, relieved parents – a better quality of life for everyone through less traffic”. Based on the findings of the school route concept currently being implemented in Saarlouis, the measure has the potential to contribute to improving the traffic situation at schools and daycare centers.

• Co-Design
• Real-world laboratories as spaces of dialogue
• Communication of processes and findings
• Transformation design

We want to take a holistic approach to our communication and place great importance on participation as a tool for empowerment and inclusion. Participatory design will shape our real-world laboratory and define spaces for dialogue in which new possibilities can be explored.

«How can different perspectives be brought into a dialogue?» «How can a constructive dialogue about the state of mobility be initiated?» «How can we communicate processes and results?» «What makes a participatory communication strategy successful?»

The project aims to catalyze transformative processes, prototyping, and experimentation in existing spatial structures. Participatory communication is one way of supporting these processes, while also taking into account the social and cultural orientations of various interest groups.