Activist Robot Draws The Bike Lanes A City Should Have

The city of Wiesbaden was proclaimed the least bike friendly city in all of Germany by the country's cyclist club. In response, the Wiesbaden-based creative agency Radwende created a drawing robot that would trace the paths of bike riders, creating a map of a more bike-friendly city.

“It's a beautiful and rich city, with lot's of large SUVs and luxury cars, but riding a bike is only for the fearless, there is no culture of respect to cyclists,” explains Radwende Managing Director Peter Post. “The machine and art piece is a new way to promote biking locally.”

"Auto"-Mobile Beijing

Beijing’s bicycle culture needs a comeback. Cars, roads, and smog now consume the city, as “modern” residents leave their bicycles behind. This project proposes a bicycle transit centre prototype for Beijing, woven as a network into the elevated highways that dominate the once human-scale city. The bicycle centres create an attractive alternative lifestyle to catalyse a bicycle revival in Beijing.

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