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How exactly can we make school children safer on the road? This is the question that city planners grapple with daily as they approve city infrastructure plans. Meanwhile, when these plans get through without safer and inclusive designs, children end up becoming one of the biggest victims of fatalities in cities. In Uganda, at least... Continue Reading →
Block by Block Since 2012, Mojang, the makers of the game Minecraft, and UN-Habitat, the United Nations programme for sustainable cities, have been collaborating on an innovative programme in which the popular game Minecraft is used as a community participation tool in the design of urban public spaces. Block by Block uses Minecraft to involve... Continue Reading →
Developed by SMART motor vehicles the dancing traffic light manikin is intended to raise the awareness of people at crossing points in order to make them wait and watch rather than walk through the red light. The movements of the manikin were motion captured from pedestrians in Lisbon, Portugal Watch the video https://vimeo.com/106273444
The Tweddeko - Every life matters campaign was launched in February 2017 by VivoEnergy and was aired on NTV Uganda three times, every week day, and backed by a social media campaign #Twedekko. It ran until Dec 2017. The TV slot featured stories of lives that have been impacted by road traffic crashes with an... Continue Reading →
These videos (Culture and Hygiene & Matatu Story Table 5) are the result of a community storytelling project aiming to incorporate drama, music and the arts. The videos are made by participants and discuss the various issues that come with travelling in matatus in Nairobi. In using this collaborative and creative approach, the serious issue... Continue Reading →
As part of public communication and marketing for the Non-Motorized Transport pilot project for Kampala, a one hour long live call in Television talk show was held on NTV-Uganda on 9th August 2015. It was organized by Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and funded by UN-Habitat. The panel consisted of the Manager for Traffic and... Continue Reading →
