Cycling
Since the reports of a global “bicycle boom” in the pandemic year 2020, I have started to observe what happens in initiatives that promote sustainable urban mobility. I conduct cycling research in Austria and Indonesia.
cycling in INDONESIA
The project Cycling Together: Mobility, Mediation and Ways of Knowing in Indonesia investigates how the practice of cycling generates specific knowledge about a city, and how this knowledge can be used to make cities more sustainable. The project team consists of Sanderien Verstappen and Gabriele Weichart (University of Vienna) and Amalinda Savirani (Gadjah Mada University). The research is funded for four years (2027-2030) by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. In the podcast PARES (2024), I discuss the pilot phase of this research with political scientist Bayu Dardias Kurniadi.
Cycling in Vienna
Underrepresented in cycling research, in many cases, are immigrants and people whose first language is not the local language. The project Enabling Migrants to Cycle complements existing surveys with a focus on this underrepresented group. The team consists of Beatrice Stude (stape e.U. URBAN CONSULTING; lead), Elisabeth Kampel (klarFakt e.U.), Tadej Brezina (TU Wien) and Sanderien Verstappen with film director Helen Vaaks and interviewer Noah Egger (University of Vienna). The project is funded by FFG, Bundesministerium Innovation, Mobilität und Infrastruktur.
Bicycle activisM
The ritual of the Ghostbike is organised in Vienna every time a cyclist dies in traffic. Our Horizon MSCA project Performing as the expert: urban activists’ roles and identities online and offline investigates which roles urban activists perform, how they choose a role, and how their performances are perceived by politicians, lobby groups, and publics. This research is conducted in Vienna and Helsinki by Marie Curie fellow Christoph Fink.
Sections of this research have been supported by research assistants Noah Egger, Hans Magnus Gielge, Christopher Osazuwa and Clara Sanzenbacher.
