Bicycle
dal 21/6/2008 al 4/10/2008
Segnalato da
21/6/2008
Bicycle
Design Huis, Eindhoven
100 days two-wheeler event
The Netherlands has 16 over million inhabitants and an estimated 18 million bicycles. This summer the Designhuis in Eindhoven will honour this very Dutch phenomenon with an exhibition titled ‘’.
From 22 June through 5 October 2008 this exhibition will form the heart of a 100 day two-wheeler with a wide range of activities, lectures and trips.
The Dutch are born on a bike, it is sometimes said. They use the bike in large numbers in their daily commute to school or work or as a tool for transporting kids, groceries and mail. As a healthy hobby for young and old or as a (top-class) sport, they ride it by the thousands on the road, on the track, on forest paths or on a cross-country course. Yes, the bicycle is even considered a vehicle for good causes.
Partly as a result of this versatile use, next to the ‘standard’ touring bike a lot of variations and niche markets have come into being: the hybrid, children’s bikes, folding bikes, mother bikes and grandmother bikes, racing bikes, cross hybrids, mountain bikes, ATB’s, reclining bikes, BMX bikes, electrical bikes. Plus all kinds of bicycle carts to transport children or objects. Not to mention clothes and accessories: from bags, baskets and children’s seats to pumps and many lighting systems.
The Designhuis in Eindhoven honours this phenomenon from 22 June through 5 October in the form of the exhibition ‘ Bicycle’. The exhibition will give an overview of the bicycle in its context, as a means of transport, a social phenomenon, as a means of recreation, as a lifestyle, as a means of engaging in (top-class) sport. The Designhuis will show how such an ordinary and everyday object as the bike remains a subject of research, development and design creativity. Motivated by desires and needs of consumers or by their own experiences designers keep finding inspiration for new forms, functions and materials in an ‘ordinary’ tool like the bike. It is exactly the cross-pollination between the creative industries and the manufacturing industries that appear to be a fertile breeding ground for innovation.
Design Huis
Stadhuisplein 3 - Eindhoven