︎ Learning Landscapes
Promoting greater physical movement through outdoor play-scapes along route.
By Elizabeth Sinyard ︎
Hypothesis
How can design intervene to encourage a single mother and her children to spend more time together outdoors and promote greater physical movement? By using a point of decision design framework, this scenario analyzed the persona of a working single mother and her daily route of getting her kids to the bus stop and getting to and from her work locations. By understanding what motivations drive this mother’s decisions and intervening at strategic points of decision throughout her day, design can make a stronger impact and play a larger role in encouraging more physical movement.
How can design intervene to encourage a single mother and her children to spend more time together outdoors and promote greater physical movement? By using a point of decision design framework, this scenario analyzed the persona of a working single mother and her daily route of getting her kids to the bus stop and getting to and from her work locations. By understanding what motivations drive this mother’s decisions and intervening at strategic points of decision throughout her day, design can make a stronger impact and play a larger role in encouraging more physical movement.
- Why?
Spending time outside can improve health and wellbeing
- How?
Through a network of learning landscapes that affordable, accessible, and appealing.
- What?
Outdoor learning landscapes.
- So What?
People can spend more time outdoors, which will improve children’s mental and physical health.
The design to outcomes.
Design to Outcomes
This scenario suggests Learning Landscapes that are fun and engaging for kids and low energy for the mother placed along the walking route from the school bus stops to residential neighborhoods in order to provide a fun and simple incentive to encourage parents to walk home with their kids rather than drive or take the city bus.
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Works Cited
1. US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, Health Benefits of Physical Activity: The Evidence, Darren E.R. Warburton, Crystal Whitney Nicol, and Shannon S.D. Bredin, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P-MC1402378/
2. Science Daily, It’s official--spending time outside is good for you, University of East Anglia, July 2018, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas-es/2018/07/180706102842.htm
3. Total Wellness, The Powerful Health Benefits of Spending Time Outside, Robyn Whalen, May 2018, https://info.totalwellnesshealth.com/blog/the-power-ful-health-benefits-of-spending-time-outside
4. Healthy Living, Why is physical activity so important for health and wellbeing?, January 2017, https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/fitness/fit-ness-basics/why-is-physical-activity-so-important-for-health-and-wellbeing
5. Center for Disease Control, Why It Matters, https://www.cdc.gov/physicalac-tivity/about-physical-activity/why-it-matters.html