Visions of the Future: How Children Imagine the Future of Transport

Current research and decision making around transport is primarily focused on adults, but it is today's children who will live in the future we are creating. They are rarely given an opportunity to contribute to that future. Children are frequent users of the transport system. This gives them important experiences of how accessible, safe, or enjoyable transport is. This makes them key stakeholders.
This project will use arts-based participatory methods to better understand children’s perspectives. This will primarily involve running a series of interactive, junk modelling workshops within the local community. Within these workshops children will generate ideas for how they want to travel in the future and use recycled materials to build a prototype of this method of transport. Children will be interviewed to share why they build this model, what it does and what is important to them in the future of transport.