The cycle BOOM project is about how our environment and technologies work together to help or hinder peoples’ mobility. Tim Jones and I have been exploring these issues with Year 9 and 10 Design and Technology students from our neighbouring Cheney School. The first challenge for the students was to re-design the environment of east Oxford’s… [Read More]
Archives for 2015
Seminar Report | Design for Wellbeing: Innovative research methods for understanding older people’s everyday mobility | Oxford Brookes University | 21 April 2015
In April cycle BOOM hosted a British Society for Gerontology sponsored seminar Design for Wellbeing: Innovative research methods for understanding older people’s everyday mobility at Oxford Brookes which was attended by around 50 people. The seminar brought together the seven projects funded under the UK Research Councils’ Lifelong Health and Wellbeing (LLHW) ageing research programme. The… [Read More]
Wellbeing and Cognition Cycle Trials
The first wave of the cycle BOOM wellbeing trial has been very successful, with so far more than 20 participants completing the trial and 10 more to finish in the next month or so. Most of the participants that cycled for an 8-week period on a pedal bike or an electrically assisted (e-)bike indicated that… [Read More]
Amsterdam: sociable cycling, street ballet… and parking problems
At the beginning of March I had the opportunity to return to the Netherlands for the first time in over 20 years. I accompanied an Urban Design field trip organised by the Department of Planning at Oxford Brookes University and had the chance to observe the many people using cycles in Amsterdam – and to… [Read More]
The potential for the return of an endangered species – the older cyclist
This month’s blog is written by cycle BOOM Co-Investigator, Kiron Chatterjee, and provides a valuable insight into the current state of older cycling in the UK. When we have told some people about our research they have not been able to hide the view that we are wasting our time. They claim older people in the… [Read More]
A velo-mobile future for all without developing ‘affective capacities’
Back in early November 2014 I was given the opportunity to present a paper at the 10th Anniversary Cosmobilities Conference ‘Networked Urban Mobilities’. I took part in an interesting session ‘Imaginaries of Velomobility’ which included talks broadly oriented around exploring the ‘cultures of cycling’ in different social and geographical contexts and how these might evolve…. [Read More]
