smartercities:

A novel idea from Sweden. How do you convince people to make positive behavioural choices? Make it fun. After turning a staircase into a piano, 66% more people used it than before, leaving the adjacent escalator almost redundant.

In a similar vein, getting the elderly to exercise through use of pensioners’ playgrounds is a fantastic idea that is having brilliant results across Europe.

I usually like a lot of this stuff but both of these examples are pretty creepy / vaguely dystopian somehow. “Let’s just treat everyone like children, that’ll help save energy and keep the old folks from just sitting around!”

On reflection though, it’s kind of hard to be down on making positive behavioral choices more fun because who doesn’t like positive behavior, and fun?