V&A Design Culture Salon – How is the urban cyclist designed

I am very pleased to be invited to chair and curate an upcoming Design Culture Salon at the V&A on the theme of design and cycling. It is on Friday 10th October at 6.30pm. Tickets are free but booking is essential.

How is the urban cyclist designed?

The way a society moves reveals much about the nature of its citizenship and what they deem to be important. Yet, not all forms of mobility or mobile bodies are equal. Some are designed to fit with mobile everyday life more than others. How is the urban cyclist designed? How does clothing, infrastructure (or lack of it) and policy presuppose a particular type of cyclist? How does one become a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ cyclist? How have our cycling pasts shaped our contemporary practices and what futures might be possible?

Chair:
Kat Jungnickel, Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths

Panel:
Rachel Aldred, Senior Lecturer in Transport, University of Westminster
Jenni Gwiazdowski, Founder and Director of the London Bike Kitchen
Carlton Reid, Executive Editor of BikeBiz and author of ‘Roads Were Not Built For Cars’
Justin Spinney, Lecturer in Human Geography, Cardiff University