Students Reimagine Hakametsä Sport Campus to Boost Sustainable Mobility

About 40 students recently took part in a workshop at Hakametsä Sport Campus to design outdoor spaces with sustainable mobility in mind. They began with an outdoor observation walk in small groups, assessing route safety, clarity, bike parking, lighting and overall attractiveness for walkers, cyclists, scooter users and dog walkers.

The event was part of the Mobility Mindshift project run by the City of Tampere together with Tredu, local upper secondary schools and Tampere University, and funded by the European Union’s Horizon framework programme.

Indoors, the groups built three-dimensional models with LEGO and modelling clay. Their proposals aimed to accommodate elderly people, young users and people with disabilities, and to respond to future scenarios — hotter, drier summers, colder winters and an aging population.

Ideas included solar-powered lighting, painted animal tracks on asphalt, more trees for shade, kiosks, wider active travel lanes, graffiti art and accessible seating by the skate park.

The models were placed on a large campus map and documented for a hoped-for exhibition. Planners will use the ideas to inform upcoming public-space design work once the zoning plan, expected to become legally binding this spring, allows detailed planning to proceed.