Studio-X Global Network
BICYCLE URBANISM BY DESIGN
10 SEPT | TUE | 18H
BICYCLE URBANISM BY DESIGN, MIKAEL COLVILLE-ANDERSEN
Considering Design as a Placemaking Solution for Liveable Cities
As part of a series of lectures brought on by the exhibition Ciclo Rotas, currently on display at Studio-X Rio, we have invited Mikael Colville-Andersen to share
his ideas with us.
As an urban mobility expert and CEO for Copenhagenize Design Company, Mikael Colville-Andersen is one of the leading global voices in urban planning and he focuses on re-establishing the bicycle on the urban landscape. He regards the bicycle is the most important tool in our urban toolbox for rebuilding our liveable cities.
Few people have done more to promote urban cycling than Colville-Andersen. What started with the now-famous ”Photo That Launched a Million Bicycles”
on Copenhagen Cycle Chic (copenhagencyclechic.com) that kickstarted the global bicycle boom, led to the bicycle urbanism blog Copenhagenize.com, The Slow Bicycle Movement, the global Cycle Chic trend, the Bicycle Innovation Lab (the first cultural centre for urban cycling) and even a Danish cycling NGO - Cykelrepublikken. Colville-Andersen has coined a number of expressions to describe this modern bicycle boom, including; Cycle Chic, Copenhagenize, Bicycle Urbanism and Citizen Cyclist.
With his company, Colville-Andersen and his team advise cities and towns about how to gear up for Bicycle Culture 2.0 and take the bicycle seriously as transport once again. They work on a variety of projects, including putting the bicycle onto the curriculum in Sao Paulo schools, communications strategies aimed at encouraging Citizen Cyclists to consider the bicycle as transport and working with architectural firms in order to get the bicycle into the designs from the beginning of the process.
In his Bicycle Urbanism by Design talk, Colville-Andersen will make you think differently about your city, your streets and, indeed, the very way Rio de Janeiro
should be modernising itself for the future. He inspires and provokes with his original take on things. Indeed, he has been called ”Jane Jacobs with attitude”.
photo by Raul Correa-Smith
BICYCLE URBANISM BY DESIGN
10 SEPT | TUE | 18H
BICYCLE URBANISM BY DESIGN, MIKAEL COLVILLE-ANDERSEN
Considering Design as a Placemaking Solution for Liveable Cities
As part of a series of lectures brought on by the exhibition Ciclo Rotas, currently on display at Studio-X Rio, we have invited Mikael Colville-Andersen to share
his ideas with us.
As an urban mobility expert and CEO for Copenhagenize Design Company, Mikael Colville-Andersen is one of the leading global voices in urban planning and he focuses on re-establishing the bicycle on the urban landscape. He regards the bicycle is the most important tool in our urban toolbox for rebuilding our liveable cities.
Few people have done more to promote urban cycling than Colville-Andersen. What started with the now-famous ”Photo That Launched a Million Bicycles”
on Copenhagen Cycle Chic (copenhagencyclechic.com) that kickstarted the global bicycle boom, led to the bicycle urbanism blog Copenhagenize.com, The Slow Bicycle Movement, the global Cycle Chic trend, the Bicycle Innovation Lab (the first cultural centre for urban cycling) and even a Danish cycling NGO - Cykelrepublikken. Colville-Andersen has coined a number of expressions to describe this modern bicycle boom, including; Cycle Chic, Copenhagenize, Bicycle Urbanism and Citizen Cyclist.
With his company, Colville-Andersen and his team advise cities and towns about how to gear up for Bicycle Culture 2.0 and take the bicycle seriously as transport once again. They work on a variety of projects, including putting the bicycle onto the curriculum in Sao Paulo schools, communications strategies aimed at encouraging Citizen Cyclists to consider the bicycle as transport and working with architectural firms in order to get the bicycle into the designs from the beginning of the process.
In his Bicycle Urbanism by Design talk, Colville-Andersen will make you think differently about your city, your streets and, indeed, the very way Rio de Janeiro
should be modernising itself for the future. He inspires and provokes with his original take on things. Indeed, he has been called ”Jane Jacobs with attitude”.
photo by Raul Correa-Smith