WALKMOBILE

In 1975 the Austrian civil engineer Hermann Knoflacher developed the Walkmobile or Gehzeug a wood frame worn by a pedestrian with the purpose to occupy the same space quantity as a motorist. The walkmobile is a tool of protest against the record of cars in city that easily allows to visualize the irrationality of the engine urban traffic and the fact that it takes up an excessive part of ground .
The experiment of Knoflacher has been repeated in different big cities in the world, from Austria to Thailand, showing the territorial potentialities of the urban areas without cars.

From 1975 Hermann Knoflacher was a Professor at Vienna Univesity of Tecnology and from 1985 a manager of the Institute for the planning of the transports and traffic at Vienna Technical University . He has given a fundamental contribution to the Sanfte Mobilität, the German activist movement for Sustainable Transports.

I GO TO WORK ON SURF

In the summer 2008 the British daily papers published a curious news. Fed up with the hours of queue in the traffic and of the overcrowded public means of transport in London, the English Andy White chose to use the surf table to go to work. After having got the permission from the coastal watch, every day it crosses eight kilometers on the Thames, in about two hours he reaches the garage of a friend, where he leaves the table, he washes himself and gets dressed then he walks to his office in the City.This is an original example of sustainable mobility that promotes the urban bathing and navigation.
We love you, Andy!

BIG CAR SHORT DICK

Big Car Short Dick is a type of urban activism which reacts to the invasion of Suvs on the road “in order to sensitize individuals about pollution, promote sustainable mobility and spread an essential way of living.”

One only needs to choose a sticker, find a Suv, take a quick look around, and attach the sticker to the Suv. This is a simple action, which could appear irreverent and vulgar - but the Suvs are even more so.

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PARK(ING) DAY

Parking day, an event which had its epicenter in San Francisco, took place on September 19, 2008. Here artists and people from all over the world occupied and transformed a parking space or a momentarily free parking lot into a small public park with plenty of grass, small trees and benches in order to give pedestrians and cyclists a space to relax in. The parking spaces were paid for, and the tickets were shown to law officials as evidence upon request. Once they expired, the activists quickly disassembled the parking spaces and transported the various parts of the “mobile flower beds” using carts pulled by bicycles toward other free parking spaces.

The activity of Park(ing) was invented in 2005 by REBAR, a group of creative individuals, designers and activists who operate in San Francisco and still today have the rights to the creative license.

This is a gesture of protest towards the urban mobility of large cities in which motorized means reign. It compels the officials who sacrifice green spaces and public spaces for parking lots and highways to change the planning of the city.

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