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Creating space for cycling: on our streets, in our calendars, in our minds
Vera Diogo, [email protected] Duarte, [email protected]
September 2021
To understand and
promote velomobility as
means to integral and
integrated development of
people and communities,
favoring the inclusive co-
construction of educating
cities.
• identify cultural barriers to the utilitarian and recreational
uses of cycles;
• analyze the cultural motivators ─ representations and
practices that highlight the relations between cycling uses
and learning, biopsychosocial development, civic
participation and the inclusion of people with disabilities in
urban areas;
• broadcast these connections in order to promote the use of
cycles.
“The educative potential of velomobility. Perspectives of bicycle users, educators and students.”
Action-Research Project
• 1st stage – learn from within
• Focus groups
• With students (13)
• Professors/researchers and staff
• Questionnaire
• Itineraries to explore cultural
heritage – “Rota Porto Liberal”
• 2nd stage – experience beyond
• Questionnaire and interviews to• Bicycle users
• School and social economy organizations representatives
• Municipal and Educating Cities Network Representative
What do we learn by cycling?
What is it to be human?
• Conception of culture which
includes nature – human,
territorial and patrimonial
• Integral human being –
bodymind
• Framed in time-space conditions
(Fernandes, 2021)
EVOLUTION
• Domination of nature
• Exploitation of people by people
• Competition
• Cooperation
• Anarchy1998, Yield
(Graffin, 2010)
vídeo
Human action enables a dehumanizing social
interaction
Focus Groups Analysis
Existing Conditions to cycle
Representations of the bicycle
Ideas to promote cycling
Learnings generated by
cycling
Student’s understandings of what we learn by cycling
• motor and physical development;
• personal development;
• social awareness and citizenship;
• geographical awareness;
• sustainability;
Final remarks
• A long way ahead …
• How to change the car-centric culture from within?
• By highlighting its negative effects on social justice and human
development
• By proposing veloculture a healthier, happier, more sustainable and
fairer alternative.
References
• Morin, E. (1984) Sociologia. Nem Martins: Produções Europa América.
• Egan, R. & Philbin, M. (2021): Precarious entitlement to public space & utility cycling in Dublin, Mobilities,
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1913067
• Fernandes, L. (2021). As lentas lições do corpo. Ensaios rápidos sobre as relações entre o corpo e a mente.
Lisboa: Contraponto.
• Graffin, G. & Olson, S. (2010). Anarchy Evolution. Faith, Science and Bad Religion in a World Without God.
New York: Harper Perennial.
• Mezirow, J. (1997). "Transformative learning: theory to practice". In: CRAN- TON, P (Ed.). New directions for
adult and continuing education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Tonnies, F. (1887). Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft. Leipzig: Fues's Verlag.
