#Wikicarril 2.0 es la segunda acción ciudadana del colectivo “Camina, haz ciudad” referida a la necesidad de generar de forma bottom-up una infraestructura ciclista que es necesaria en las ciudades mexicanas.
En la primera acción (video) realizada el 20 de octubre de 2011 pintaron frente al Congreso de la Unión un tramo de “wikicarril”, que cumplía con todas las especificaciones técnicas necesarias para este tipo de infraestructura. 2 días después fue borrado por las autoridades.
Queremos construir una ciudad más humana, más sustentable, más incluyente, una ciudad para todos.
- Colectivo “Camina, haz ciudad”.
Para llevar a cabo el #wikicarrill 2.0 el colectivo “Camina, haz ciudad” utilizó el crowdfunding a través de la plataforma Fondeadora solicitando apoyo para realizar 5 km de nuevo #wikicarril el 6 de noviembre de 2011.
El resultado de la acción no sólo se remite al vídeo que inicia este post, han generado la “Guía para construir carril de prioridad cicilista, el #wikicarril”.
Sigue este proyecto en:
- Web: hazciudad.blogspot.com
- Twitter: @hazciudad
Anteriores referencias: tumblr.radarq.net/…/red-nacional-de-ciclismo-urbano-mexico
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Escenarios de lo Público Desplazamientos: 13º Congreso Arquine.
‘Better Block’: upgrading streets quickly and cheaply.
Working into darkness that Friday night, they painted a bike lane and arranged potted saplings — lent to them by a landscape company — and outdoor furniture to narrow the street’s three traffic lanes to one. A cafe, a flower market, and a children’s art studio briefly moved into some vacant storefronts donated by landlords. Musicians entertained and people hung out.
Source: bettercities, 29.01.12.
/via floresenelatico
Source: citymaus
Social Cities of Tomorrow conference text. By Michiel de Lange & Martijn de Waal
Excerpts from Social Cities of Tomorrow conference text by Michiel de Lange & Martijn de Waal.
Note: The bolds are mine.
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Can digital technologies enable citizens to act on collectively shared issues?
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We see three promising interrelated developments where urban technologies may be used to create livable and lively cities.
1. Data-commons
Sensing technologies and networked urban media create vast amounts of data about a wide range of urban processes and practices. These data can become a valuable resource, a platform on top of which new services and infrastructures can be built. We will explore how these new resources can be harvested and opened up, and turned into useful information and applications that are available to everyone. Furthermore, we will investigate how these datasets can be used to bring out, visualise and manage collective issues.
2. Sense of place and a feeling of ‘ownership’
To engage people with communally shared issues, it is essential that people envision themselves as part of the urban fabric, and understand that their individual actions make a difference to the common good. They also need to trust other urbanites to act accordingly. How can digital media be employed to foster a shared sense of belonging and responsibility, and a feeling that indeed the city is ‘ours’ to take and shape? We will explore how digital tools for story-telling, urban games, data visualisations and interactive media facades can help foster a sense of place and a sense of ‘ownership’.
3. DIY urban design & networked publics
‘Networked publics’ are groups of people that use social media and other digital technologies to organise themselves around collective goals or issues. In online culture, networks of ‘professional amateurs’ create ‘user generated content’ or take part in ‘citizen science’ projects. Think of open source software or Wikipedia as successful examples. Can we port these principles from online culture, like self-organisation and collective action, to urban life in order to make it more ‘social’ as well? We will look at the ways in which new media technologies can be employed to involve citizens in designing their own city, and to include them in governing urban issues. We will explore how these technologies can be used to create and manage publics around common pool resources, varying from car sharing to urban gardening.
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The event Social Cities of Tomorrow is also intended as an alternative to the increasingly popular idea of ‘smart’ or ‘intelligent’ cities.
48x48x48 is a project that applied Tactical Urbanism to jump-start the revitalization of Main St in Oyster Bay, Long Island.
The project implemented an action plan that occurred over the course of 48 hours. The 48 hour action-planning project was then used to develop a plan for 48 months, which would in turn be used to develop a long-term 50 year plan for Oyster Bay and its surrounding regions. The 48 hour action was carried out on June 12 and 13, 2010.
Source: dotankbrooklyn.org
“On 24th June, a building appeared in the gap between the east and westbound traffic of the A12. Transforming the cavernous undercroft where the motorway crosses the Lea Navigation Canal, Folly for a Flyover is hosting a six week programme of waterside cinema, performance and play.
Hand-built with local, reclaimed and donated materials, the Folly draws influence from the surrounding red-brick buildings of Hackney Wick, posing as an imaginary piece of the area’s past, a building trapped under the motorway.
By day the folly will host a café, workshops and events and boat trips exploring the surrounding waterways. At night there will be screenings ranging from animation classics to early and experimental cinema with live scores, light shows and performances.”
(via publicdesignfestival)
Source: ilgirodialice
