Pedal Powered Vehicles Workshop

update on workshop events

The workshop is taking shape, amazing people are getting involved, an exciting working location is confirmed...
Here is a glance at what is coming:

A WORKSHOP DESIGNING AND BUILDING PROTOTYPE VEHICLES
30 Jan – 17 Feb, Outer Space Studio, Kensington

A team of 20 designers, bicycle industry workers, new-service entrepreneurs and sustainable transport advocates will be working together in an intensive hot-house environment to develop working prototypes that demonstrate the potential of pedal-powered vehicles, particularly a pedicab/rickshaw, cargo workbike, vendor service bikes, trailers and bike add-ons and theatrical bikes.
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WHO NEEDS TO MAKE ‘PEDAL-POWERED’ WORK?
A forum setting the scene for pedal-powered activity in Melbourne
9.30am-12.30pm Tuesday 31 Jan, RMIT City Campus

A series of presentations by key transport stakeholders on the problems and possibilities of increasing pedal-powered culture in Melbourne through pedicabs, cargobikes, vendor service bikes, bike trailers, and theatrical bikes – to be followed by discussion. Presentations will be given by bicycle industry developers, local and state government representatives, service providers seeking vehicles, and sustainable transportation advocates.
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PEDAL-POWERED – PUBLIC LECTURE
Two lectures sharing experiences in developing human-powered transportation projects in India, Indonesia, Africa & North America.
6.30pm Wed 1 Feb, RMIT City Campus
‘Rickshaws and Pedicabs: Solutions from the past for the future’ by Shreya Gadepalli, Designer and Technical Director with Institute for Transportation & Development Policy based in India.
‘Human Powered Vehicles: international insights’ by Matteo Martignoni, bicycle industry consultant and Vice President of the International Human Powered Vehicle Association based in New York.
Where: Casey Plaza lecture theatre, building 10
(enter via Bowen St, ground floor of white angular building with plenty of bike parking at front.)
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HERE’S A PEDAL-POWERED POSSIBILITY
A public presentation and response forum to the Pedal Powered Vehicle Workshop
9.30am-12.30pm Fri 17th Feb, RMIT City Campus

A series of presentations of ideas that make pedal-powered work, including vehicle prototypes, with responses from invited key transportation stakeholders, including bicycle industry developers, local and state government representatives, service providers seeking vehicles, and sustainable transportation advocates.
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RIDE-ON-DINNER
6pm Fri 17 Feb, departing from a secret inner city location
A caravan of bicyclists served a 3-course meal from pedal-powered kitchen vehicles in three different locations over the duration of a 3-hour evening inner-city bike ride. $10 per cyclist. Booking will be essential. More details coming soon.
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PARADE AT THE SUSTAINABLE LIVING FESTIVAL
Sat 18 Feb, Federation Square
A parade ride, show and tell of the workshop’s prototype vehicles at the premium public Melbourne festival showcasing sustainability.
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posted by Mick @ 5:29 pm