john talked about this briefly during his lecture today, and i thought it was so interesting!
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The Problem: How to build bicycles cheaply, using sustainable materials.
The Solution: The Bamboo Bike Project. Grow the materials used to make the bike frame out of native bamboo and teach these skills to local communities.
The Designers: A collective of designers and engineers at Columbia University
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This is interesting in many ways. John has Nada Bikes and is now focusing on the bamboo frames. Minneapolis and MCAD are bike crazy. What if a NADA (Bamboo) store was located around the MCAD community. It could employ a disenfranchised community to manufacture. MCAD could purchase these bikes and give to MCAD students if they left their cars at home. Bikes could be sold to the community as well. A sought of art+design+business+cultural+community project
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