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This year's schedule
To keep things exciting and fun, we are making the days short and snappy.Friday 6pm – 8pm
Part 1: Food, drink and Hello from CycleHack
First, let’s get you fed and comfortable. You’ll catch a glimpse of the opening film for CycleHack with hellos from across the globe and introductions from the founders.
Part 2: Guest speakers
We are hosting a range of talks about barriers to cycling and how we can best work together over the weekend and further future.
Colin Preston
Lead creative in an experience design team at Code Computerlove
Practitioner of human-centered design & ‘Design Thinking’ methods, Colin will talking around the theme rapid prototyping and learning
Gabi Schliwa
PhD researcher at The University of Manchester and CycleHack volunteer
Gabi is managing the Manchester Cycling Lab at The University of Manchester and uses the city as a laboratory. She’ll be talking around the key theme of sharing knowledge.
Dr Paul Wilson
Physical Activity Specialist at the University of Salford
Paul works full time at the University of Salford as the Associate Dean for Operations within the School of Health Sciences and will be talking around the topic getting started: cycling in a city.
Part 3: Introduce your barriers and ideas
Based upon the topics covered in the talks, everyone will able to start pinning-up their barriers to cycling and potential ideas. Therefore, opening the space to discussions about what you could do over the next two days.
We also hope everyone will be able join us afterwards for some refreshments and natter.
Saturday 11am – 4pm
Tea, coffee, teams and start making
First things first, find others that are passionate about the same idea and team up quickly so you can crack on with some initial explorations and learn by building simple prototypes.
Quickly test your prototypes
This is the most valuable time to get honest and valuable feedback from real people so get out there and try your ideas in the spaces or environment they’ll be used in.
Also, don’t worry if you haven’t got a bike, our lovely friends from @McrBikeHire will be lending some for you to use!
Sharing what you learnt
It’s good to share so we’ll be asking each team to talk about where they are at with their ideas and the things you’ve already been learning from making and testing. It also gives the wider group an opportunity to ask questions.
Tools down, meet up
Hopefully the weather will be nice enough for us to grab some refreshments in the sun, maybe walk down to a nice outdoors bar together around Deansgate-Castlefield canal area.
Sunday 11am – 4pm
Yoga for Cyclists: talk and small exercise
What better way to start your Sunday than hear an interesting talk about knowing your body and practicing some refreshing exercises. This will be kindly hosted by Marie from Yoga Manchester.
Continue making final tweaks
Time to make your ideas even greater. Whether it involves tightening a screw, sewing a thread, re-coding a snippet or stitching a frame, Sunday will see everyone making the final tweaks to their creative solutions ready to be presented back to the entire Manchester group.
Uploading CycleHacks then Show not Tell
We’ll be asking you to upload your CycleHacks to the global catalogue first, then, it’s time to show off! We’ll invite an audience eager to see and hear what you’ve made and learnt as well as external judges to give awards for specific group achievements.
CycleHack prizes!
Shhhhh! We’re keeping this a bit of a secret until the Sunday afternoon but we’d like to say a big thank you now to Hillcourt Street Cycles, Common Good, Things Manchester and TfGM for donating prizes to be awarded for different CycleHack categories.
Weekend wrap up
We’ll sum up what we’ve done together in one weekend as well as some words from the other cities around the world.