Design Sparks

Design Sparks is a free online service that helps you generate new perspectives and possibilities for your design process. With their AI-generated sparks, you can explore infinite ideas and bounce around as many ideas as you want. The service is available through their website.

The regular use of cars and other types of vehicles in London is difficult, and has been now so for over 25 years. There are many problems that contribute to this difficulty – the volume of traffic, road closures, and rush hours linked to school times. Another problem is parking – where to park your car or vehicle if, e.g., you want to drive to your work, use your local shops, or attend the theatre. Multiple factors contribute to these challenges. Most street parking is the responsibility of 33 local boroughs, so London as a whole lacks a coherent, city-wide approach to finding, reserving and paying for parking spaces. London is also filled with a dizzying array of payment machines for buying parking tickets, many of which are bewilderingly difficult for motorists to use correctly. Different parking apps for paying for parking spaces online add to the range of solutions available.

To meet local parking needs, many of London's boroughs have implemented rigid solutions that allocate street parking by space and time, using schemes such as controlling parking zones – schemes that do not optimise parking space use. In additional, different private operators run different forms and sizes of parking facilities in across London. However, the number of parking spaces in the capital is often lower than the demand for them. And the extra driving that is needed to find parking spaces contributes to the high levels of air pollution that is damaging the health of Londoners.

So, to improve the quality of life of people who work and live in London, as well as to enable businesses to operate in the capital more effectively, a new integrated service to improve vehicle parking in London is needed.

Focus on the vehicle. How can your design for it to maximise entertainment value? E.g., by offering new ways to engage?

Think about the Londoners. How might your design for it to benefit the stakeholders? E.g., enable organisations to achieve their goals?

The London. How could your design for it to go on for longer, without interventions? E.g., by only being used when needed?

Take the parking spaces. How should your design for it to become more fashionable? E.g., by establishing a desired brand?

Take the schemes. How could your design for it to bring more excitement? E.g., by being less predictable?

How can we upgrade the vehicle, e.g. using more automated means

How can we change the schemes, e.g. by using technologies that others will engage with better

How could we combine the vehicle and London in more innovative ways?

How could we merge the parking spaces and the vehicle in more beautiful ways?

How could we synthesise the Londoners and the schemes in more service-focused ways?

Imagine designing to align with future Londoners strategies. What additional potential ideas emerge?

Imagine how future changes might impact on London. Now what new ideas might be plausible?

Imagine that design team resources and expertise are no barrier. Generate new ideas that might be now possible?

Imagine that there is unlimited design time. What new ideas might become possible?

Imagine this design in 30 year's time. Now generate new ideas that could be practicable?

How can we substitute or replace the parking spaces? E.g., by designing them with a similar material?

How might we combine features of something else with the London? E.g., by using an element of the existing design?

How might we remove or simplify the Londoners? E.g., by removing non-essential elements of them altogether?

How could we reverse or rearrange the schemes? E.g., by reordering interactions with them in the current design?

How might we adapt or add something to the vehicle? E.g., by designing new elements into them?

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