December 14

ØkoBici by Snark-space making in co-operation with Abici for CPH Bike-Share Competition

Filed Under design, events, ideas 

(Video courtesy of snark – space making)

Copenhagen, acknowledged by the Danish as the 2008 best city for cycling, doesn’t rest on its laurels and looks ahead to become the world’s best city for bike-lovers. The city Municipality has announced that, by 2015,  the city aims not only to improve its sustainable bicycle policy – 350 kilometres of cycle tracks and 40 kilometres of green cycle routes – but to better the biker choice. The city council aims at:

- a minimum of 50% of Copenhageners cycling to their place of work or education

- a reduction of at least 50% in the number of cyclists seriously injured in Copenhagen traffic

- at least 80% of Copenhagen cyclists feeling safe in traffic

- a new bike-sharing system

For this latter goal the city of Copenhagen has launched an international competition, the CPH Bike-Share Competition. Architecture and design studios from the 5 continents have accepted the challenge and last week the winners were announced. The gold medals are Openbike by Lots Design, Koucky & Partners and Myloop by Thomas Coulbeaut.

After Denmark (45 entries) Italy has been the second country for number of entries (12 entries)… Not bad news, right? The bike must strike our notes. Here’s the brilliant project by snark – space making in co-operation with Alberto Mariotti and ABICI:

1_The Newspaper abstract

We imagine a 100% “bikeable” Copenhagen with stylish bike and recyclables bikes. Plus Chairsharing. The next bike sharing is not just bike. It’s a lifestyle, and advanced infrastructure, a new way of visiting the city, do business, use public transports, create virtual community that animate the public space. Technologies make a greener ad funnier city. More productive, more aggregative. A tool for easy management to offer security and entertainment.

2_The politics abstract

ØkoBici is the community-sharing ready for the 100% bikeable Copenhagen. It’s a system built on a user-oriented strategy, offering a multiple bikes’ and chairs’ park; a spatial strategy, based on flexible hubs and intermodality; a management strategy, with an active role of technologies and mobile devices. It’s a lifestyle, a network, and advanced infrastructure, a new way of visiting the city, a tool to offer entertainment, security, aggregation, and the best mobility for Copenhagen 2015.

Design team:

snark – space making: Emanuele Bompan, Gaspare Caliri, Marco Lampugnani

snark is an interdisciplinary open network involving architects, urbanists, geographers, semiologists, economists in the cultural sectors, journalists. Snark focuses on urban issues + ubiquitous computing.

Bollaborations

Graphic design: Alberto Mariotti

Bike design: abici

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