The People's Bus
Share your story
Share your story
Share your story
Share your story
A movable engagement machine working with the residents of NYC, the New York City Civic Engagement Commission, and the Public Artist in Residence Yazmany Arboleda.
A temporary installation for AARP to better understand the needs of city practitioners, so AARP can improve their Livable Communities offer.
A temporary installation for AARP to better understand the needs of city practitioners, so AARP can improve their Livable Communities offer.
Project in Process
We are excited to share this project in process – come join us in August for the next version of the People's Festival.
The People’s Bus meets New Yorkers where they are, providing them with resources and education, facilitate dialogue, and begin to restore and strengthen relationships between local government and residents.
The People’s Bus is a process of mobilizing democracy through a sensory, arts-based approach to reimagine the public square in partnership with New Yorkers. It begins by transforming a retired City bus from the Department of Corrections into a community center on wheels that will bring education, beauty, and joy to New York City neighborhoods.
Expedition Works has been supporting the with engagement strategy, program design, installation guidance, design support, and research guidance.
Prototyping in public
Instead of coming to communities and residents with all the answers, we decided that the best way to to take a prototypoi-in-public stance, going to communities with explicit requests of what the Festival should contain, what services they need, and offer ways for residents to host their own activities.
Story Building: An opportunity to share public triumphs
The Story Building element of our installation was a mix-and-match storytelling sculpture that allowed participants to quickly and simply share solutions to city problems.
Multimodal Activities
At each Bus Stop, we want to engage with the community residents using a variety of activites. From quick pamphleting for those who don't have time, to filling out feedback forms, to coloring what the bus should look like, we wanted to provide a landscape of activites to meet people where they are.
Story Building: An opportunity to share public triumphs
The Story Building element of our installation was a mix-and-match storytelling sculpture that allowed participants to quickly and simply share solutions to city problems.
Teaching Ranked Choice Voiting, but simulating the ballot and voting procedure.
Asking for visions of what the Bus and the festival should be about by inviting residents to create a page for the People's Coloring Book.
Building a social language
We helped the CEC and the People's Bus develop and test a visual and tonal lanugage for social media posts, guiding the team in different post types, and est practices. This is an ongoing learning process for us to listen to what the community needs to hear.
Story Building: An opportunity to share public triumphs
The Story Building element of our installation was a mix-and-match storytelling sculpture that allowed participants to quickly and simply share solutions to city problems.
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In this episode we speak with Sam Starr, a cargo bike expert about what our cities might look like if we shift some (or a substantial amount) of our in-city freight traffic from giant potential trucks to cargo bikes. Listen to Episode 006 with Sandra Rothbard for more freight pod.
Guest Bio
Sam Starr is a distinguished Sustainable Freight and Cycle Logistics consultant, co-founder of the North American Cargo Bike Conference by Our Greenway, and a trailblazer in the decarbonizing of goods movement. With over 15 years of expertise in logistics and supply chain, including roles at FedEx Services, Flash Global, US Pack Logistics, and others, Sam has recently played a pivotal role in transforming sustainable logistics, driving academic studies and cycle logistics pilots across Canada. A sought-after speaker at conferences like those hosted by the Association for Supply Chain Management, International Cargo Bike Festival, and the United Nations Economic Commission, Sam holds degrees in Electrical and Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of the Master of Engineering Leadership program in Urban Systems at the University of British Columbia. Passionate about sustainable cities and cutting-edge mobility, Sam stands out as a visionary leader shaping the future of environmentally responsible logistics systems.
“The future is very bright for cargo bikes, but we need to start thinking about it as that ecosystem. And this is not just for businesses, it’s for everybody.”
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In this episode we speak with freight expert Sandra Rothbard, who is an urban planner specializing in freight transportation. After working for public agencies in NYC on city logistics, disaster preparedness and solid waste management, she now supports public, private and non-profit organizations around the world as an independent consultant. She focuses on building sustainable, resilient and safe streets, healthy communities and efficient and economic supply chains.
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“What I and my colleagues, would like to see, is a definition between what is a regular, family use cargo bike that might as well just be a regular e-bike. So that’d be one category and then another category that’s maybe more on the mid size scale that allows for heavier duty goods requires maybe a bit of training to use them but this is still carrying a I’ll call it a mid weight. And then a higher, heavier duty category that’s looking at 800 pounds, 700, 800 pounds of payload and more, and that these get regulated at these different levels.”
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