The Walk21 Metro Vancouver partnership of community groups, health authorities, universities and governments is proud to present an international conference to discuss how car dependent communities around the world can take the next steps beyond the automobile city.
Participants are invited to follow their heads, their hearts and their hands, and vote with their feet by contributing in the following ways:
Heart: Sharing the simple experiences of walking
Hands: Learning from projects to improve walking
Feet: Walkshops for ‘feet on’ discussion
Transforming the automobile city: walking steps up!
Engineers, Planners, Health Professionals, Politicians, Designers, Developers, Researchers, Community Groups, Advocates
A Call for Proposals has just gone out. Details below:
Participants are invited to follow their heads, their hearts and their hands, and vote with their feet by contributing in the following ways:
HEADS
How do we make the case for walking, so that decision-makers and fund-holders can be persuaded that walking offers value for money, efficiency and fairness in our public spaces, transport systems and communities? We welcome original, qualitative and quantitative research from different disciplines that provides evidence to inform and inspire the development of more effective local and national policies.
HEARTS
Walking is a sensory experience as well as a physical act which has inspired many of the world’s most influential artists, authors, philosophers and scholars and improves our mental and physical well being. We welcome submissions, in any media, to explore the “culture of walking” and to show how to encourage communities and individuals to embrace and value the art of walking.
HANDS
Celebrating achievements and learning lessons are essential to progress. This stream invites on-going and completed evaluations of projects and initiatives. Business cases will be welcomed, as well as evidence-based evaluations and practical examples of interventions that promote walkability.
FEET
Take us on your favourite walk and explain what makes it work! We welcome proposals for walkshops in the public realm that demonstrate the potential to create an environment that will be better for walking; and show how that potential is realised in partnerships between neighbourhoods, decision-makers and businesses.
PROPOSAL STYLES
Proposals can include, but needn’t necessarily be limited to:
- Breakout presentations (20 minutes)
- Posters
- Walkshops (outdoor activities)
- Webcasts (live web based debates or presentations)
- Multimedia (graphic art, sculpture, video or film)
- Walk21 Pecha Kucha: a handful of presenters will illustrate and describe their projects in a tight and dynamic format, using 20 images, each put on the screen for 20 seconds. See http://www.pecha-kucha.org/
- Interactive video conferencing.The Wosk Centre for Dialogue’s Asia Pacific Hall provides for state of the art interactive video conferencing with participants from around the world. If you have a walking advocate, politician or practitioner that cannot make it to Vancouver but is available for this video conferencing, let us know your idea and how it fits into the themes of the conference. We have the technology to meet and see your best practices explained by your local experts in your own back yard. Show us how you walk the talk!
We look forward to your contributions and an exciting conference.
Click here to submit online
Download the Call as a PDF file
The Call will close on February 18th 2011.
For all updates and details about the conference visit www.walk21.com/vancouver
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us at vancouver2011@walk21.com
Hosted by the Walk21 Metro Vancouver Society
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