Dreams on Wheels in Barcelona | Dreams On Wheels : Danish Cycling Culture For Urban Sustainabilty

Travel schedule

Brussels 01.12.2009-18.12.2009

Mexico City 04.03.2010-30.04.2010

Brno & Prague07.04.2010-26.04.2010

Ljubljana29.04.2010-10.05.2010

St. Petersburg 20.05.2010-31.05.2010

Rio12.06.2010-26.07.2010

Dublin12.06.2010-20.06.2010

Brasilia 01.08.2010-16.08.2010

Santiago 10.09.2010-01.11.2010

Rome15.09.2010-15.10.2010

Cycle for a Change

Edinburgh Conference - February 10th, 2009

Klaus Bondam made a recorded address to the audience explaining the benefits of having a strong cycling policy in place and what the next targets for copenhagen would be. in short, Copenhagen plans to have 50% of its commuting by bike in 2015, up from around 35% today. ambitious but far from impossible...

A Trojan Horse for Sustainability

The bicycle in our climate change era could be regarded as a Trojan Horse for Sustainability. In other words, it can insidiously infiltrate people's subconscious ambition to become climate-friendly. By the inhabitants behaving in such a way, the city and urban spaces could become more sustainable in terms of transportation, but even more so in terms of quality of life and life style..

Jan Gehl's work around the world

Jan Gehl's urban quality firm GEHL ARCHITECTS is the world's leading urban space planning company when we talk about developing a lifestyle that is enjoyable and healthy for inhabitants and businesses alike. With 40 years of practice, the company has amongst many other cities now transformed Copenhagen's city center into a bustling and lively pedestrian strip where shopping and...

Dreams on Wheels in Barcelona November 8, 2009 at 17:29

The Danish Cultural Institute in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and various cycling organisations is presenting the Danish cycling exhibition, “Dreams on Wheels” in response to Denmark is hosting COP15 – the UN Climate Change Summit – in December 2009 in Copenhagen.

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Dreams on Wheels is an exhibition originally created by Thomas Ugo Ermacora - and is a conceptual arena for promoting urban cycling as a viable transport alternative. The exhibition is a showcase for the Danish cycling tradition, bicycle design, and urban planning, and has among other places been shown at The Danish House in Paris, harbour-front Toronto, Danish Design Centre and in the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh.

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Press release from The Royal Danish Consulate in Spain 8 November, 2009

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