Blogs

  • Macro-level accessibility doesn’t exclude micro-level barriers in public transport
    This post explores the challenges of achieving universal accessibility in public transport, including the conflict between macro and micro-level implementation and barriers met at the micro-level. It highlights the importance of addressing systemic and individual barriers to create more accessible transport chains. What is required to achieve universal accessibility?
  • Getting Stuck in Retirement: Making Sense of the System
    This blog post gives an insight into our analysis of the organizational environment of retirement. I talk about what it was like to deal with complexity, use systems thinking to question the obvious, and how not to let it overwhelm you.
  • New travel chains: inclusive, digital, integrated and fair
    What are the main issues in the present transport system? Which challenges will the service providers face in the future? How should public travel chains be in the future? In the last three weeks, we collaborated with national and local service providers, user associations and municipalities to answer these questions.
  • Untangling the threads of information in the transport system
    This post will present to you the research process we have carried out over the past four weeks, in which we have sought to better understand the transport system, tracing the interweaving of its network together with stakeholders.
  • Future of retirement—Exploring and applying system thinking
    Where do policy and design meet? How different or similar are their processes? And how can design help policy to suit “human scale”? These are some of the questions that have arisen during the first two weeks’ discussions and reflections on the Design for Government course.
  • Dignified life means having the possibility of choice
    A dignified old age and the retirement event have several connections we had to discover. Our group’s objective over the previous three weeks has been to comprehend the perspective of retired people through field research and identify the critical life events that lead to being dignified and how digitalisation influences it as a tool.