cycling – cycle BOOM http://www.cycleboom.org Design for lifelong health and wellbeing Mon, 13 Feb 2017 10:41:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.2 School’s outside for summer http://www.cycleboom.org/schools-outside-for-summer/ http://www.cycleboom.org/schools-outside-for-summer/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:17:22 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1481 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]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/schools-outside-for-summer/feed/ 0 The Vision: Increasing the Visibility of Older Cycling http://www.cycleboom.org/vision-increasing-visibility-older-cycling/ http://www.cycleboom.org/vision-increasing-visibility-older-cycling/#respond Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:41:27 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1230 We’re afraid that we have run out of time to write a full blog for December, but they say, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. So instead we sign out of 2014 with a video and a selection of photos taken during our travels in recent years in the Netherlands (Houten and Groningen) and Sweden... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/vision-increasing-visibility-older-cycling/feed/ 0 Balancing Safety and Pleasure – the Risk/Reward Relationship for cyclists http://www.cycleboom.org/balancing-safety-pleasure-riskreward-relationship-cyclists/ http://www.cycleboom.org/balancing-safety-pleasure-riskreward-relationship-cyclists/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2014 10:06:58 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1219 This month’s blog is written by cycle BOOM participant, Paul Taylor, who enjoys cycling in Oxford. Paul explains his cycling trajectory and offers some insight into on how he manages to overcome the risks of cycling in order to reap its rewards. Nothing in life, including cycling is risk free. However the fun, freedom and... [Read More]

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]]> http://www.cycleboom.org/balancing-safety-pleasure-riskreward-relationship-cyclists/feed/ 2 The cycling revolution will have more than two wheels (and some kind of motor) http://www.cycleboom.org/cycling-revolution-will-two-wheels-kind-motor/ http://www.cycleboom.org/cycling-revolution-will-two-wheels-kind-motor/#respond Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:34:33 +0000 http://www.cycleboom.org/?p=1147 I was recently invited to speak at one of the V&A/ University of Brighton ‘Design Salons’ (summary of the event here). If you haven’t heard of them before they are well worth checking out and you can find some more information and summaries of previous events here. In attendance on the night were Kat Jungnickel... [Read More]

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