{"id":42104,"date":"2013-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/the-network\/uncategorized\/year-long-project-at-western-university"},"modified":"2024-05-07T15:19:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T19:19:55","slug":"year-long-project-at-western-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/the-network\/projects\/year-long-project-at-western-university","title":{"rendered":"Year-long project at Western University"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Our colleagues from Dietrich Steel sent this article published last September in the local newspaper. A $1,000 donation was made from the AGF Group Foundation for this project.&nbsp;<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arts and engineering students aren\u2019t typically known for collaborating.&nbsp;But a Western University initiative brought the two faculties \u2014 one known for right-brain thinkers, the other for left-brain thinkers \u2014 together to give a boost to eco-friendly transportation and public art at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nearly one year in the making, the Western Bike Rack Project challenged students to create a bike rack that\u2019s visually appealing and functional.<\/p>\n<p>\nTen groups, each working with a $600 budget, submitted their designs to a panel of judges who selected the top three entries to be placed throughout Western\u2019s sprawling campus.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWestern asked the users of the space to generate designs that they want to use,\u201d said visual arts professor Kelly Jazvac, one of the organizers of the project.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cSo these students use their bikes and they were thinking about themselves as participants in Western\u2019s community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nJudges named Mackenzie Ludlow and Tara Singh\u2019s Form and Space \u2014 a red, green and white rack featuring large loops \u2014 as the best designed.<\/p>\n<p>\nLudlow, a second-year visual arts student, says he wanted to create something colourful to contrast \u201cthe harsh greys\u201d of Western\u2019s buildings.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWhat I set out wanting to do was introduce more organic forms and colour, just something that would stick out and pop and catch someone\u2019s eye in that kind of setting,\u201d said Ludlow, 20, who regularly rides his bicycle to school.<br \/>\nThough colourful and creative, the winning designs are still practical, Jazvac said.<\/p>\n<p>\nWith hundreds of students and faculty riding a bike to class, finding a spot to lock up your bike at Western can be as difficult as finding a parking spot on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe didn\u2019t want to put a bunch of non-useful bike racks on campus,\u201d Jazvac said.<\/p>\n<p>\nA reception showcasing the top designs was held. at McIntosh Gallery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our colleagues from Dietrich Steel sent this article published last September in the local newspaper. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":42101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49747,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42104\/revisions\/49747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}