Activities & Campaigns
Insights into the Living Lab Lokstadt, past and planned projects and more
In the Living Lab Lokstadt, various campaigns are carried out together with residents to help make life in Lokstadt more sustainable while taking residents’ well-being into account.
By participating in campaigns, you can…
- help shape the future of Lokstadt in terms of well-being, mobility and energy.
- take part in surveys and campaigns and receive vouchers of your choice from Lokstadt.
- take part in real-time campaigns using the app developed especially for this project.
Lokstadt Floral (ongoing)
What brings life and slows things down at the same time? Exactly, greenery. Lots of it! Together with residents, we’re brightening up the grey concrete with raised beds at various locations in the neighbourhood. These add colour to the streets and invite people to linger. They also act as cheerful traffic calmers, encouraging slower cycling and driving.
Lokstadt Mobil (ongoing)
The car is often the obvious solution, whether it’s for bringing home the big grocery shop, taking the kids to sports, or visiting friends across town. In this campaign, we develop and test ideas to promote slow traffic, meaning walking and cycling. Together with local businesses and residents, we’re organizing a bike repair day, arranging for long-term borrowing options for bike repair tools, and talking with drivers about which sharing options they might consider.
Lokstadt Lokal (completed)
Together with residents of Lokstadt, we developed a map of Lokstadt for a “city of short distances”. It features all the important offers in the neighbourhood: from the fine restaurant to the lovely coffee shop and the workshop for tinkering and crafting, to the businesses and co-working spaces on Dialogplatz. At the same time, we also wanted this map to highlight opportunities to share or swap everyday items and means of transportation. That’s why, alongside physical offers, the map also includes suitable platforms and rental concepts. To further encourage neighbourly exchange, we launched the sharing service pumpipumpe alongside the map.
Lokstadt Lifestyle (completed)
Are you a tech enthusiast, or do you have a less-is-more mentality? Or both? Do you behave just as sustainably at work as you do at home? People differ in how they shape their lives, what interests them, and what motivates their actions—in short, they have different lifestyles. In Lokstadt Lifestyle, we want to find out which lifestyles are found in Lokstadt. This allows us to develop tailored solutions to support sustainable behaviour in the neighbourhood.
Are you interested in your own lifestyle? Then click here and take part in the survey via the app. If you’d rather not download the app, click on the following link: Lifestyle survey without app
Lokstadt Move (completed)
Many people don’t know exactly how much CO₂ is emitted by different modes of transport. This makes it hard to decide whether the city bus or the e-scooter is the more environmentally friendly option, or whether the train comes out ahead compared to an electric car. In the mobility campaign, residents of Lokstadt can view their personal mobility overview in the SWICE app, showing which modes of transport they used for which distances. This history helps raise awareness of different modes of transport and their emissions, and can be used as a basis for comparison between them. You can download the final report here.
Click here if you’re interested in the mobility overview.
Living Lab – “SWICE” app
All campaigns are available on the Living Lab Lokstadt app “SWICE”. Through the SWICE app, you can take part in the individual campaigns and surveys. This gives you valuable insights into your mobility or personal electricity consumption, and keeps you informed about events and new offers as part of the Living Lab Lokstadt.
Throw here a look at the app.
Workshops with residents & stakeholders
The kick-off with the Lokstadt stakeholders took place in December 2022. On the one hand, the workshop served to get to know each other and identify roles. On the other hand, initial ideas for interventions in Lokstadt were collected.
In January 2023, workshops were organized with Lokstadt residents on two evenings. The workshops served to identify the needs of residents and the areas in which they see potential for more sustainable lifestyles. Together with residents, we analyzed problems in a total of five areas and developed possible solutions. A total of 16 exciting ideas emerged from the workshops with stakeholders and residents. In particular, it emerged that there is a desire for better offers and opportunities for using bicycles and that there is a great desire for more interaction between residents—whether in the form of swapping/borrowing items or joint activities, events and meeting spaces. 
The intervention ideas from the workshops were then evaluated by the ZHAW researchers based on the following criteria: residents’ prioritization, effectiveness in terms of energy or CO2 reduction, support for sustainable lifestyles, relevance for research, and feasibility in Lokstadt. The last criterion, feasibility, was assessed together with the stakeholders.
