Ars Electronica Festival · 2016
Radwende - Der Radweg ist das Ziel
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2016
“Radwende - Der Radweg ist das Ziel” by www.radwende.de received a Honorary Mention in the Digital Communities category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2016.
Wiesbaden was voted the least bike-friendly city in Germany in a survey by the German Cyclist’s Association. This result is justified by the poor infrastructure, the disregard for cyclists, and a missing lobby. We wanted to make a change - together with the cyclists and their daily navigated routes.
About www.radwende.de
*Radwende* is an art installation at Museum Wiesbaden designed to foster cycling as a means of getting around town. It visualizes routes actually used by cyclists, computes the distance traveled thereby in terms of a sort of currency (Artivisum) and then uses…
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