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The urban micro jungle
NORTHERN STATION PARK
The Northern Station Park
By Madeleine Enarsson © 2025
Overview
The ambitious urban development project "Northern Station Park" in Stockholm is an example of an urban "micro jungle" where the city has developed a park and playground where children are encouraged to connect with nature and experience the joy of movement. Its proximity to the life science hub "The Scientist" and meeting place "The Cell" also invites children to explore how their lives are closely intertwined with nature, other people, species, and organisms.
NATURE | NORTHERN STATION PARK
A guided "plant tour" in the Northern Station Park
At the inauguration of the Northern Station Park, Camilla Edvinsson, Information Officer at City of Stockholm, gave a guided tour in the park, providing a closer insight into its vast variety and richness of vegetation.
As Camilla Edvinsson described, sustainability is so much more than technological fixes. What she is truly passionate about is the plants and flowers that provide greenery, colours and wellbeing.
Come along and explore some of the plants and flowers she showed in the park!
Flowers in the park
By Madeleine Enarsson © 2025
While it is a challenge to maintain biodiversity in cities, it has been a guiding star in the development of the Northern Station Park. By keeping your eyes open - and perhaps turning on your mobile camera - you might become more aware about the buzzing and growing life around you.
Nature
Culture
The Cell: where the life sciences, innovation and art meet
The Cell is a meeting place where researchers, artists, students, schoolchildren, and the general public can explore and discuss life science, using art and culture to illuminate and problematise scientific and technical research. At the opening of The Cell, kids could experiment with fluorescent painting and dough, and at the inauguration of the Northern Station Park The Cell invited visitors to make flower prints.
The cultural 'Nature Play'
To enhance the link between the city and nature, The Nature Play is surrounded by bamboo and other vegetation (temporarily protected by a fence on the image for the bamboo to grow strong). With its labyrinth it provides winding paths hiding several secrets. It encourages exploration with an expedition tent, mythical creatures and more, which also serve to preserve the heritage from the nearby Haga Park. There could have been even more vegetation, but the idea of a "Nature Play" to create a stronger connection between the city and nature is interesting and might inspire more similar initiatives to scale it up.
NORTHERN STATION PARK - ACTIVE PLAY
Encourage joy of movement
According to the WHO, over 80% of adolescents (age 11-17) globally do not meet the global recommendations for physical activity. There are studies showing sedentary trends also among preschoolers.
Thus, it is important to give children the opportunity to experience the joy of movement and support their understanding of how this affects their health and wellbeing. In the Northern Station Park children are given plenty of opportunities to do so.
Joy of movement
By Madeleine Enarsson © 2024
Active play
Physical movement
The Northern Station Park offers varied physical activities, everything from ropes and climbing walls to high tree houses where kids can climb up and down. There is also a huge climber that almost looks like an obstacle course for grown-ups.
Imaginative play
The park further encourages children to actively use their imagination. For example, the trees have been selected because they have leaves with different original shapes, pines, nuts and seeds that can stimulate fantasy. There is also lots of super soft sand for free play, as well as two animal friends: the turtle and the crocodile.
Active & Imaginative play collage
By Madeleine Enarsson © 2025
NORTHERN STATION PARK - CULTURE
A bridge between the city and nature
In the East side of the Northern Station Park is a small playground called 'The Nature Play', aiming at creating a link between the city and nature while preserving the rich legacy of the nearby Haga Park.
To the West, the Northern Station Park borders the newly built life science hub "The Scientist", housing "The Cell" which is part of the National Museum of Science and Technology. The proximity to The Cell opens up for exciting opportunities for children to deepen their interests in areas like life science, nature, wellbeing, innovation and art.
Exploring parallell worlds
By Madeleine Enarsson © 2025
Discover more
Connect to nature with all senses
With 63 different types of trees and over 80 000 bulbs planted, Northern Station Park has been designed for people to interact with nature through all senses. Below are just a few examples.
Sight
Taste
Smell
Touch
Hearing
NATURE | NORTHERN STATION PARK
A guided "plant tour" in the Northern Station Park
At the inauguration of the Northern Station Park, Camilla Edvinsson, Information Officer at City of Stockholm, gave a guided tour in the park, providing a closer insight into its vast variety and richness of vegetation.
As Camilla Edvinsson described, sustainability is so much more than technological fixes. What she is truly passionate about is the plants and flowers that provide greenery, colours and wellbeing.
Come along and explore some of the plants and flowers she showed in the park!
Flowers in the park
By Madeleine Enarsson © 2025