2017 TN Bike Summit - Transportation, Community, & Public Art, "Like Riding a Bicycle"
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Katie Hargrave & Brett Hunter share how to use things like public art and community to encourage more bike riding. Website: https://katiehargrave.us/bike.html Workshop: Effective Approaches to Encouraging More Bicycling Presenters: Katie Hargrave & Brett Hunter, “Like Riding a Bicycle” Chattanooga, TN
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2017 TN Bike Summit - Transportation, Community, & Public Art, "Like Riding a Bicycle"
- 1. BRETT HUNTER + KATIE HARGRAVE
- 3. TRANSPORTATION, COMMUNITY, AND PUBLIC ART The bike tour as community event and public art happening.
- 4. HARNESSING THE JOY OF COMMUNITY AT THE MINNEAPOLIS GREENWAY GLOW FESTIVAL
- 5. BUILDING A CULTURE OF CYCLING + INVENTIVENESS HORNELL COMMUNITY ART CENTER
- 6. HOW DO WE LEARN THE HISTORY OF OUR PLACE? and WHAT DOES INNOVATION MEAN? CAUSEWAY CHALLENGE
- 7. LEARNING THROUGH DOING NASHVILLE COOP GALLERY
- 8. “...pay attention to everything that abuts the rural road, the city street, the suburban boulevard. Walk. Stroll. Saunter. Ride a bike, and coast along a lot. Explore.” -John Stilgoe Outside Lies Magic
- 11. HARNESSING THE JOY OF COMMUNITY AT THE MINNEAPOLIS GREENWAY GLOW FESTIVAL
- 14. Some bib images
- 15. Some bib images
- 21. BUILDING A CULTURE OF CYCLING + INVENTIVENESS HORNELL COMMUNITY ART CENTER
- 37. HOW DO WE LEARN THE HISTORY OF OUR PLACE? and WHAT DOES INNOVATION MEAN? CAUSEWAY CHALLENGE
- 48. LEARNING THROUGH DOING NASHVILLE COOP GALLERY
- 53. Like Riding a Bicycle bretthunter.katiehargrave.us Katie Hargrave katiehargrave.us Brett Hunter placenotes.net
Hinweis der Redaktion
- (Katie) Thank you to the Tennessee Bike Summit for having us and allowing us to present on our work. My name is Katie Hargrave, and I am an artist and educator based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And my name is Brett Hunter, and I am am also an artist and educator, based in Hornell, New York. We call ourselves like riding a bicycle because of the age-old phrase, “Like Riding a Bicycle,” which one uses to describe a skill they’ll never forget. We are interested in skill building and sharing within our work.
- (Brett) We are going to talk to you today about our practice, specifically we are going to ground our conversation around a series of projects that are under the umbrella “Like Riding a Bicycle.” This project, we hope, serves as an example of how art, community organizing, and advocacy can work together.
- (Katie) The title for our talk today is: “Transportation, Community, and Public Art: the bike tour as community event and public art happening.” We will share our experiences developing our projects and generate tools and materials to assist others in identifying community partners, developing tour ideas, and considering logistics. Over the past two years we have conducted a constellation of projects in six different cities (including Nashville and Chattanooga) that combine elements of bike rides, art exhibitions, and community conversation. This combination of elements has allowed us to connect individuals and groups (artists, city transport officials, cycling enthusiasts, activists, neighbors, etc.) that share interests but are not always in conversation. We want to advocate hybrid approaches to thinking about the role of bikes and bicycle infrastructure on the life of a place, their potential as a catalyst for connecting neighbors to one another, and building stronger community connections.
- (BRETT) We are going to speak about four projects today. The first was a part of the Minneapolis greenway glow festival.
- (BRETT) The second was a project at the Hornell Community Art Center
- (Katie) The third was in Chattanooga, supported by the Causeway Play Challenge and was titled “Innovation outside the Innovation District.”
- (KATIE) And the fourth is a project at the Nashville Coop Gallery
- (Brett) This quote is a frame for our work. (read quote) John Stilgoe is a geographer who is interested in getting people out into the world, paying attention. He believes this act of paying attention leads to better citizens. Bicycles are a transportation tool, a device for better health, but also they are a means to explore, to notice the world around us as we move through it. Bicycles move at a speed that allows us to notice. We slow, we stop, and we look closer. We believe bicycles are a way to bring people together, to share their neighborhoods with one another, and to discover the knowledge that exists all around us in the minds and experiences of our neighbors.
- (Katie) Even through our projects might look like forms that you use in your work as activists or planners or community organizers, we are trained as visual artists. The field we work in is known as socially engaged art, which borrows tools from all of these fields. The difference is, we are able to ask stranger questions, and by being independent (like we don’t work for the city), we are able to be more flexible, maybe more fun, and weirder. For these reasons, we would encourage you to think about the ways you might engage artists in your practices. Artists often see things from a different perspective than you might as well as opening up different audiences to your work. When we talk about our work, we will talk about it as related to these four strategies. Printed Matter, Participation, Workshop, and Object as tool. They work together throughout our work.
- (Brett) One fundamental idea in SEA is engagement, the processes of working together. Participation is a method for this. Like Riding a Bicycle events are interactive and collective; people ride bikes, tell stories, and explore their neighborhoods together, creating a collective body of knowledge. Combining elements of well-known cultural forms such as a critical mass ride, a public art tour, and a parade occupying public space, we draw participation from disparate groups of people. Together we share knowledge and enact our collective power for building community. Our approach to community-building, prototypes an alternative methodology for working in public, one that is cross-disciplinary, draws on community organizing to develop relationships with local partners, focuses on process not product, and seeks to uncover and nourish the ways communities have power.
- (Katie) How many of you know about the Midtown Greenway in Minneapolis (hand raising)? The Midtown Greenway is an amazing piece of public infrastructure. It crosses the city east-west, gives a protected space for pedestrians and cyclists to move free from cars, and it is a great example of rails to trails in Minnesota. Minneapolis is an excellent place for cycling, as I am sure you are aware, however, the greenway is underutilized at night because of safety concerns. The Greenway Glow is a festival that seeks to use the greenway throughout the night (running from dusk until after midnight) through inviting artists to activate the space.
- (BRETT) This whole festival is a great example of how artists can be useful in implementing infrastructure projects. We were invited to participate. This was our location on the trail.
- (Katie) Riders participated by “racing” to learn skills. They filled out a race bib that said, “I will never forget…” which we collected and added to our library. Because of the adage “it’s like riding a bicycle,” we focused on skills the participants would never forget.
- For instance
- Or this more poetic version.
- (BRETT) The race bibs were projected across the space, allowing participants to see the skills of their community.
- (BRETT) Participants showed us their skills in real time, like walking on stilts.
- Or teaching us how to do headstands, as in this image.
- (KATIE) There was a joyful nature to the event, and people enjoyed seeing and thinking about other people’s skills as well as their own.
- (Katie) The workshop is a model we have used in a number of projects. We act as facilitators, leading people to learn through doing, see their own power, and share that power with others. We have found the bicycle to be a good way to begin these workshops.
- (BRETT) We developed a project at the Hornell Community Art Center, a community art center in a town in Western NY of 8000 people. This project joined forces with a free summer camp with included art making activities for youth from age 4-10.
- (KATIE) We began by setting up a bicycle storytelling station. Youth were invited to tell stories about how they learned to ride a bicycle.
- (Brett) Pretty quickly, the stories changed to the familiar bicycle horror stories (like falls, scrapes, and stumbles). The youth spoke about adventures as well as accidents. These stories opened the students up to connect with each other, but it also allowed for an openness to occur mentally. The youth were then interested in participating in other activities.
- (KATIE) We discussed the bicycle as a skill and then asked the youth to think about other skills they have.
- They filled out a simple worksheet like this (and)
- (KATIE) The worksheet also asked them to think about skills they would like to gain, and to begin to make designs for inventions to assist in learning those skills.
- (KATIE) And they shared these skills with the group.
- (Brett) Finally they created prototypes of their inventions.
- (Brett) To create these inventions they had to break down the steps to learn a new skill. The creative act became a way to think about learning. Even if they don’t work, they hopefully empower the youth to think about how they might learn real skills in the world.
- (KATIE) Alongside our workshops with youth, we had a gallery installation that included bike decorating competitions, bicycle helmet giveaways with the local police, information on bicycle infrastructure (both current and future), community skill shares, bike video festival, and goldsprints. We hoped these variety of events would attract a variety of audience members. We are going to flip through a few images.
- (Brett) As you can see from the handouts in this presentation, we are fond of creating publications in our work. These are both ways to share ideas and also to create a souvenir or set of instructions that can be referred to later. Especially when the work involves an event that is temporary.
- (Katie) in 2015 we were part of the Causeway Challenge, developing project that involved “Play” as an element in the life of Chattanooga
- (Brett) We were interested in the newly designated “Innovation district” and wanted to challenge what innovation meant. We developed a short bike tour (and walking for people who were nervous on bikes) that explored current innovation, developed skills in participants, and explored the history of the area. We had seven stops, and at each stop we had a local expert present.
- (KATIE) Here are some images from the tour. We had approximately forty participants, we were lucky to partner with Bike Walk Chattanooga who helped us by recruiting volunteers as well as providing bike valet at our tour stops. Bike Chattanooga, the city of Chattanooga’s bike sharing program, provided bike share bikes to our participants (free of charge for them, but at a discounted rate for us), and Green trips helped educate our cyclists (some of which had not been on a bike in 25 years, but many of which are not active cyclists or bike commuters) about how to safely navigate the tour. We provided bike lights and bells and whistles and horns to participants for safety, and we made sure to have a volunteer at the end of the group to keep all participants together. It was a great, slow ride.
- (Brett) Green trips donated some great schwag to us, including information about their bike perks, which most of our participants were unaware of. We also included a map, some information about our projects, and a publication, which we will speak about more in a minute.
- (KATIE) One of the most important parts of this project was integrating unlikely community partners. This is Lauren Haynes, who is an appalachian herbalist. She took us on a tour of a small patch of weedy plants between the road and an alleyway. She showed us how all of those overlooked spaces include dozens of plants that could be used to make medicine, make salads, and she spoke about the history of appalachian herbalism, which draws from slave medicine, irish folk medicine and native american medicine.
- (Brett) Michael Gilliland from Chattanooga Organized for Action, a local activist organization, spoke with us about the history of public space in the area, how it has been used for rallies, how streets have been named, and the historical makeup of the neighborhood.
- (KATIE) Finally, we went to the public library to see their maker space. The librarians taught us to make buttons with little bicycles on them. Each of us struggled to make a button, but a young girl on the tour quickly took over, and taught us how to use to tool. It was an exciting and humbling experience to realize that expertise has nothing to do with age.
- (Brett) Each of our presenters were interviewed to be included in the publication you just received. This allowed for the information of the tour to live on.
- (Brett) This is one of two such publications about the innovation district, the second of which we are debuting today.
- (KATIE) For us, the tour was a huge success. We wanted to speak about some of the logistics with you. We began working on planning four months before the ride. We had different ideas of who might be included, but realized who would be a good fit because of interest and availability. That flexibility was important. We met with each presenter (who we paid a small stipend to) several times before the tour. We scouted multiple routes, and we planned with inexperienced cyclists in mind, thinking more about safety than efficiency. We were insured by the League of American Bicyclists, who has various packages to insure advocacy organizations. The tour was free to all participants, which was important to be able to attract a wide and diverse audience. One of the successes of the tour was that it brought people together who would not normally come together—people interested in art, in the history of the city, in bikes. These people wouldn’t normally meet. We’d be happy to discuss more with you about this project if you are interested.
- (Brett) Finally, we will speak about the object as a catalyst for conversation. This is an important way we integrate the designed object or visual art experience into our work.
- (Brett) The project we are speaking about happened at a non-profit DIY gallery in Nashville, Coop gallery.
- (KATIE) We have found that people like to play with objects. They will engage more freely and spend more time, if there is a tactile experience. One of the elements was a set of audio interviews of people telling stories about learning to ride a bike or teaching others to ride. These bicycles only play audio when the participant pedals, encouraging folks to get on the bike and ride.
- (Brett) Another aspect of the exhibition was a collection of bike drawings from Memory. Several hundred people drew a version of a bicycle, most of which would not function in real life. this becam a potent symbol for us of the way we see the world around us. We remember things like the seat or the handlebar, then things that we touch. But ways that those things connect is often unclear. Similarly with our neighborhoods, there are things that we notice every day and there are more complex systems that connect them all together
- (KATIE) One of those connects are the skills we can share with each other. Remember the race bibs from the first project? We had people fill out these race bibs to become a visual catalog of the skills that came through the space. One great connection that happened was that FBC, a bike organization from Nashville that does bike rides at night came to the event. They walked in wearing their helmets, which was a great complement to the project.
- (Brett) Like many of our projects, we were blown away by the support and enthusiasm of the participants. We planned for approximately 75 participants, but we ended up having more than 1000 people come through the exhibition.
- (KATIE) We’d encourage you to think about the ways you can integrate art into your organization’s goals. Our websites are available for you to view more of our work. We are going to see if there are any questions and then we will intorduce our new publication and lead you through a quick workshop.