Student Design Awards winners: Signalling change

Brief 3: How might we tap into the potential of train stations so they become spaces that amplify and influence positive behaviours?

Winner: GRAB A PLANT

An education-based initiative to encourage primary schools to increase social responsibility by sharing their creative and gardening skills with the public and train users.

GRAB A PLANT encourages social responsibility at a young age by giving primary school children the opportunity to develop community gardens at local rail stations that have limited spaces. This proposal, using New Pudsey station as an example, brings together local schools to plant food or the public to take and creating the conditions for local gardeners to make a wider public impact. This builds a sense of social responsibility and pride for younger communities whilst utilising a cost and carbon friendly approach.

Commended entries

Highly commended

Cristina Rusu and Sara Rajnai, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland

Repair Station: A service that encourages people to be more sustainable, offering options to repair objects instead of throwing them away by using the untapped potential of the train stations.

Commended

Rob Swan, Northumbria University, England

Palate Local Vending: A sustainable vending service aiming to encourage people to eat more local food in train stations.