How can I get involved?
HANDS-ON PARTICIPATION IN THE
PEDAL-POWERED VEHICLES WORKSHOP
making pedal-powered work
30 Jan – 17 February 06
Melbourne
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If you'd like to participate in a hands-on way by designing and building prototypes, post a comment here and tell us a few things about yourself,
or
SUBMIT AN EXPRESSION OF INTEREST TO PARTICIPATE
responding to the points below and email to:
mick.douglas@rmit.edu.au
Your Name:
Email address:
Phone:
Address:
1. Tell us what a wonderful person you are and what you’ve been doing:
2. So why do you want to participate in the PPV workshop?
3. What experience do you believe you can contribute to the workshop?
4. Do you have welding & metal working experience? (It is not expected)
If so, please describe (eg: TIG? MIG? Oxy/Aceteline?)
5. Will you be available in mornings only, or could you work into the afternoon if enthusiasm and circumstances permit?
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REMOTE PARTICIPATION
Where ever you are, please do share your expereince, thoughts and ideas with us. Post comments on this blog, send us your own web links, post us cranks and chain! And we'll hope to keep you posted on what we discover along the ride.
1st call for participation
Participation is invited from people with interest in the field who can contribute to the learning opportunity of the Pedal Powered Vehicles Workshop. In Melbourne you can get involved hands-on for the 3 weeks of 30 Jan to 17 Feb. You might be a designer, bicycle enthusiast and mechanic, a pedal power and sustainability advocate, a new service entrepreneur, or you may simply just tell us why you have to be involved to MAKE PEDAL POWER WORK.
Places in the hands-on workshop are limited.
To express your interest, repond by 'comment' to the posting on this blog called 'How can I get involved'.
More about the PPVW
Pedal-powered transportation has much to offer cities like Melbourne. Beyond cycling for recreation, sport or commuting, there is a broad range of existing and new service functions that can be fulfilled in more sustainable ways by pedal power. This design workshop has a practical focus on developing designs and building prototypes of pedal-powered vehicles that can be tested by user groups. Participants will work in collaborative small teams to design and construct one of a range of vehicles: * a people carrier / rickshaw / pedicab; * a cargo-carrying workbike, * a service-specific customised workbike (eg a mobile shop), and * a cargo carrying bike trailer. The emphasis of the workshop is to learn through making, to produce vehicles that can advocate and demonstrate pedal-powered possibilities, to connect potential developers and users of pedal-power and build peer-to-peer relationships that may seed entrepreneurial opportunities and community benefits.
PARTICIPANTS joining the 3 week Feb 2006 workshop include . . .
Shreya Gadepalli
Human powered vehicle designer, & India Technical Director, Institute for Transportation & Development Policy, responsible for re-design of the Indian rickshaw and Indonesian becak and design of an Africa bike.
www.itdp.org
Matteo Martignoni
Bicycle development consultant & Vice President of International Human Powered Vehicle Association
Mick Douglas
Cultural Transports Unit of RMIT Industrial Design, sustainable transport artist and organiser of ‘tramjatra’ Kolkata Melbourne arts action tramways project
www. tramtactic.net
Michael Drofenik
Designer formerly with SRAM bike components
Brad Marmion
Designer of a winning competitive racing wheelchair
Kate Arch Deacon
Supremo chef and industrial design student at RMIT
Adrian Flather
prop builder and special effects maestro
WHEN – FEB 06
Monday 30 Jan – Friday 3 Feb
Monday 6 Feb – Friday 10
Monday 13 Feb - Friday 17 Feb
WHERE – INNER MELBOURNE
The design workshop is conducted over three weeks of half-day morning sessions at RMIT city campus and partner organisations.
COST – KEPT TO A MINIMUM
Participation will involve a minimal fee for prototyping materials of no more than $450 (tbc, subject to striking sponsorship deals)
OWNERSHIP – EVERYONE AND NO ONE
The workshop encourages free sharing of ideas, knowledge and skills. All participants will have access to the built prototypes for use and further development.
What is this workshop?
Imagine getting a 10 minute open-air ride on a pedicab to get to that meeting at the other side of the city; … or hiring a trailer for your bike from the corner store when you need to move your stuff; … or picking up a fresh crepe from a chef-on-a-bike just at the right time and place; … or just getting your bike repaired by a mechanic who rides his workshop-on-wheels to your home.
There is a broad range of existing and new services that can be fulfilled in more sustainable and enjoyable ways by pedal power.
The Cultural Transports Unit of RMIT University is calling for participation in a Pedal-Powered Vehicles Workshop taking place over 3 weeks in February, in central Melbourne. The workshop has a practical focus on designing and building prototypes of pedal-powered vehicles.
The international team pedalling the workshop includes Indian designer Shreya Gadepalli whose improvements to rickshaws in India and becaks in Indonesia are making big changes to thousands of peoples lives; New York based Matteo Martignoni whose pedal-powered vehicle experience includes aerodynamic land speed record vehicles and amphibious vehicles; and Cultural Transports artist Mick Douglas.
Participation is invited from designers, bicycle enthusiasts and mechanics, pedal power and sustainability advocates, new service entrepreneurs, or anyone who just has to get involved pedalling. Join in to make vehicles and meet people who want to make pedal-power work.
The workshop is being held in the mornings for 3 weeks at RMIT in the city from 30th Jan to 17 Feb. Participants will pay a small materials fee and have use of all the prototypes made.
Places in the workshop are limited. To express your interest, reply by 'comment' to the posting on this blog called 'How can I get involved?'
