Month: August 2020

Together with the Dutch Embassy in Santiago, Chili, the DCE organized a series of two mini-workshops.

One was focused on the different Municipalities within Chili’s capital, Santiago, the other was focused on a range of cities throughout Chili: Valdivia, Rancagua, Arica, Temuco, Pucon, Pitrufquen and Iquique. The goal of these workshop was for these municipalities to present current mobility challenges and possibilities for the bike, and for the experts to present themselves and give an introduction to the range of solutions they have to offer the municipalities. Joining the workshop were Carolina Ramos of Panteia, Nahuel Beccan Davila of Beccan Davila Urbanismo and Ana Alanis of the Loendersloot Groep.

On August 12th, Motiva OY from Helsinki organized a webinar about mobility in corona conditions.

Through cooperation of the Dutch Embassy in Finland and the DCE, Rico Andriesse of Goudappel Coffeng was a guest speaker during this webinar. Rico spoke about the Dutch Corona-strategies for preventing excessive crowds and about the opportunities that are now emerging to design the city for space-efficient modes of transport and important residential activities: from temporary bicycle streets, pop-up bicycle paths to holiday streets.

Today, two of DCE’s experts gave a keynote during a webinar on cycling in Cebu City, Philippines.

Today, Mark Wagenbuur of Bicycle Dutch and Willem Snel from &Morgen gave a keynote on the history of cycling in the Netherlands, and the potential of for the City of Cebu, Philippines. More than 100 participants joined the webinar. Cebu has already made big progress in a short amount of time during the COVID-19 crisis and is aiming to become a cycling city in the long run.

In August the DCE virtually visited the Walk/Bike/Places Conference in the USA, for which we created a digital photo exhibition in partnership with the Netherlands Embassy in Washington DC called “The Joy Of Dutch Cycling: Scenes From Safe And Social Streets”.

The exposition offered a glimpse of what is possible when a road network does not rhyme with car traffic fluidity, but rather with safe space for everyone: socialization, family rides, ease and comfort, smiles, lively human-scale spaces, independent children, flexibility, and much, much more.