Motonormativity is a shared bias whereby people judge motorised mobility differently to other comparable topics. @Ian Walker and @Marco Te Brommelstroet research and published a corwd funded project to better understand the underlying mechanisms.

As Dutch cities, including Amersfoort, take steps toward climate-friendly mobility by introducing zero-emission zones, a crucial question remains: what happens outside these areas? In this public experiment, we flip the script. Instead of celebrating the clean zones, we place signs that highlight the full-emission zones—the streets, neighborhoods, and spaces where fossil-fueled traffic still dominates.

Traffic crashes kill and injure people worldwide on a massive scale. This doesn’t happen ‘by accident’; it’s a consequence of the political choice to design our public spaces for fast and efficient movement from A to B. However, as a society, we seem not to view traffic crashes as a major social issue and a human tragedy, and we rarely address the systemic causes.

Image: Esra Korkmaz

As part of an initiative to rethink and reclaim public space, The Lab of Thought developed and tested a bike-powered zebra crossing printer—a mobile tool that empowers citizens to create their own safe crossings.

Het Zomeroffer (The Summer Sacrifice) is a bold and radical summer performance by De Warme Winkel, inspired by Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps. In the original, a young woman dances herself to death as a ritual offering to usher in the spring. De Warme Winkel reimagines this primal sacrifice for our time—turning it into a powerful reflection on our collective addiction to the car. In

Every year, traffic fatalities and injuries are reported as cold statistics in the news. But behind every number lies a human story—and a street that could have been designed differently. The Just Street Fieldlab invites us to shift the conversation: away from fatalism, toward a fair and just approach to how our streets are designed. Not only safer, but also more equitable, inclusive, and human-centered.

What if a single parking spot could do more than hold a car? This parklet is an invitation to reimagine how we use our streets—not just for transit, but for connection. Rooted in research on tactical urbanism and public space design, the parklet offers a live experiment in reclaiming car-dominated environments for community, rest, and spontaneous interaction (Lydon & Garcia, Tactical Urbanism, 2015).