CITY TALKS: Patrick Reynolds — Seductive Congestion and Red Design Architects — Te Papa to Island Bay Cycle Path

Big picture observations of our modern transport dilemma and a fine grained study proposing a viable local cycleway solution

City Gallery Wellington, Civic Square

Monday 20 July, 6pm

Free entry

City Talks is an ongoing series initiated by the New Zealand Institute of Architects Wellington Branch and presented in partnership with City Gallery Wellington.

This month, Patrick Reynolds, Martin Hanley and Anna Kemble Welch discuss the dilemmas of transport within cities. The night will open with Patrick Reynolds, in his capacity as an author of the Transport Blog, presenting Seductive Congestion, a paper based on a recent presentation given to the Ministry of Transport. Followed by Martin Hanley and Anna Kemble Welch of Red Design, who over a decade ago sponsored a research project which looked at possible cycle routes from Island Bay to the CBD. Growing momentum and political will led to further research and community design work undertaken in 2013 and the presentation of the Urban Activation Lab’s proposed Island Bay to Te Papa Cycleway — a perfect case study of the fine grained solutions that our city can support as a meaningful alternative to the current condition.

Patrick Reynolds blogs on the urban planning website transportblog.co.nz, is an architectural photographer, and tutors at the School of Architecture at the University of Auckland.

Red Design Architects is the Newtown-based architecture practice run by Martin Hanley and Anna Kemble Welsh. Martin is a part time tutor at Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Architecture and serves on numerous voluntary boards and in community liaison roles including assisting the Newtown Residents’ Association on urban design and resource management issues. Anna is an architect whose practice often focuses on the innovative and unexpected occupancy and inhabitation of space and places in unintended ways. Together, they organise the Newtown Festival and are hugely active in what is one of Wellington’s most exciting, diverse and vibrant communities.

The talk will be followed by refreshments.

ENDS