ORGANISATION

Anteiglesias of Eskoriatza

CHALLENGE

To improve mobility and connectivity between the parishes and the town in order to optimise the services in an area comprising some 3,000 inhabitants.

IMPROBABLE COLLABORATOR

Vivero de Iniciativas Ciudadanas (VIC) is an open collaborative project aimed at promoting, disseminating, analysing and supporting critical initiatives and processes with the proactive spirit of citizens, with special emphasis on transfers to the territory, city and public space. The goal of Vivero de Iniciativas Ciudadanas is to create updated links in society, listening, studying and proposing routes on specific situations and helping to reunite theory and practice.

PROPOSAL

This group of architects presented a proposal under the title M.E.R.S.I. that aimed to collectively co-design and co-produce a participative route to develop a prototype for new Intergenerational Sustainable Rural Electric Mobility. Their idea was to address challenges such as disconnection, active ageing, intergenerationality, sustainable mobility and social cohesion, among others.

PROCESS

This group of architects presented a proposal under the title M.E.R.S.I. that aimed to collectively co-design and co-produce a participative route to develop a prototype for new Intergenerational Sustainable Rural Electric Mobility. Their idea was to address challenges such as disconnection, active ageing, intergenerationality, sustainable mobility and social cohesion, among others.

RESULTS

Various pilot schemes were defined to respond to the needs of the people living in the parishes. Some of these included connecting the area by means of a bus and/or taxi service according to the population’s knowledge and uses of the service through a database, creating an “ageless bicycle” service that allows people to travel the valley with accessible bicycles based on an intergenerational perspective and promoted by volunteers and, finally, the creation of an app that helps to define routes based on crosschecking data in order to share trajectories and generate connections among users.