{"id":839,"date":"2025-04-30T11:18:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthdoor.org\/ongoing\/?p=839"},"modified":"2025-05-05T13:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:08:36","slug":"a-fourth-door-micro-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthdoor.org\/ongoing\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"INTERSECTIONS \u2013 between sustainable transport infrastructure, digital tech, cycle networks, architecture, and the built environment."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Wigglesworth Architecture\u2019s GO Kingston Cycle Hub \u2013 photo SWArch<\/small><\/p>\n

INTERSECTIONS<\/strong> \u2013 between sustainable transport infrastructure, digital tech, cycle networks, architecture, and the built environment.<\/p>\n

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A Fourth Door micro-symposium<\/h3>\n

Fitzroy House, Lewes, BN7 2AD (Search Fitzroy House, Lewes)<\/p>\n

3pm \u2013 7pm Saturday June 14th 2025.<\/p>\n

Tickets \u00a37.50 (\u00a32.50\/pay what you can – benefits\/students) \u2013 Register on Eventbrite<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The latest Fourth Door<\/strong> afternoon micro-symposium aims to connect often overlooked elements in the transport debate, while also addressing Lewes and its surrounding areas possible travel futures. The Intersection symposium will link architectural to transport systems design, the natural materials perspective with cycle and rail infrastructure, and citizen science led digital tech to traffic related health and pollution issues.<\/p>\n

The micro-symposium highlights both national and local initiatives, drawing these together in a single afternoon sitting to help encourage discussion and cross-fertilisation, and framing what\u2019s happening in Lewes and the Ouse Valley in the broader transport debate.<\/p>\n

The afternoon is organised around three main themes:<\/p>\n

I – Cycle-and rail Infrastructure and cycle networks<\/em>
\nII \u2013 Future homes, towns, and sustainable transport<\/em>
\nIII \u2013 Envisioning digital tech and transport infrastructure futures<\/em><\/p>\n

The afternoon is particularly timely given the prospective lo-to-no car PhoenixLewes eco-development, and a new Mobility Strategy for the town which is gathering pace.<\/p>\n

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SPEAKERS BIO\/OVERVIEW<\/h3>\n

I – Cycle-Infrastructure and cycle networks<\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah Wigglesworth, SWArch<\/strong> \u2013 architect of the Kingston Cycle Hub<\/a>, part of Kingston Borough Council\u2019s Go Cycle<\/a> Mini-Holland cycle infrastructure programme.<\/p>\n

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\nIn Depth <\/i><\/summary>\n

\"\"The Bermondsey Bicycle Store \u2013 Photo SWArch<\/small><\/p>\n

Sarah Wigglesworth is well known for her celebrated experimental architecture. Perhaps less known is that Sarah is a keen cyclist, and has been involved in a variety of cycle infrastructure projects, including the Bermondsey Bicycle Store<\/a>, and more recently, the GO Cycle Kingston mini-Holland<\/a> project. Sarah and her SWARCH studio team also developed a cycle-centric approach to traveling to project sites and other work involving travel. She will ride us through these and related projects and design thinking in relation to cycle infrastructure.<\/p>\n

A Fourth Door Unstructured<\/em> web-mag feature on the GO Cycle Kingston mini-Holland project can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

Roger Blake \u2013 Railfuture<\/strong> \u2013 re-opening the Lewes-Uckfield rail link as an integrated bike-rail corridor and its place in the South east\u2019s broader rail infrastructure and active travel plans.<\/p>\n

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\nIn Depth <\/i><\/summary>\n

\"\"Uckfield-Lewes Greenway map<\/small><\/p>\n

After 30 years as Hackney Council\u2019s former Principal Transport Planner \u2013 where he was instrumental in the development of its regional rail-infrastructure \u2013 Roger became director for Infrastructure and Networks at Railfuture<\/a>, the leading campaigning organisation for better passenger and freight rail services. He is active in the Railfuture Bridge the Gap<\/a> campaign to re-open an Uckfield-Lewes rail link, alongside other Railfuture\u2019s campaigns and work.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

Matthew Bird <\/strong>\u2013 First and Last Miles and the Get Bikery<\/strong> Project<\/p>\n

\n
\nIn Depth <\/i><\/summary>\n

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\nGet Bikery eCargo Bike deliveries \u2013 Photo GetBikery<\/small><\/p>\n

Long term Lewes resident and LDC\/LTC councillor Matthew Bird<\/strong> is founder of the Get Bikery<\/a> Project, a Lewes and Ouse Valley based community eCargo bike social initiative. Matthew will bring us up to date on Get Bikery\u2019s work in developing first mile\/last mile eCargo services for Lewes, Newhaven, and surrounding areas, while framing the project in the broader eCargo cycle infrastructure context and potential.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

Adrienne Soudain<\/strong> \u2013 the National Cycle Network and cycle transport infrastructure: yesterday, today and tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\n
\nIn Depth <\/i><\/summary>\n

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\nPhoto Mark Lovell Design Engineers<\/small><\/p>\n

Sustrans<\/a>, the organisation behind the National Cycle Network, has developed, designed and helped engineer much of the network\u2019s extensive cycle infrastructure. Adrienne Soudain, who trained as a landscape architect, is the regional Sustrans officer for the Sussex region, and she will illustrate Sustrans\u2019 design approach while discussing current local Sussex related projects she is responsible for.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

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II \u2013 Future homes, towns, and sustainable transport<\/i><\/p>\n

Brian Q Love \u2013 Connected Cities <\/strong><\/p>\n

\n
\nIn Depth <\/i><\/summary>\n

\"\"Connected Towns \u2013 from the Connected Cities website<\/small><\/p>\n

Brian Q Love \u2013 Connected Cities<\/strong><\/p>\n

Drawing inspiration from Ebenezer Howard’s Social Cities<\/a> Connected Cities<\/a> envisions compact high quality and walkable brownfield and greenfield developments integrated with rail stations and rail connected linear settlements. Within this schema Connected Cities have also developed Connected Towns<\/a> and New Green Quarters<\/a>. Brian Q Love runs, Love Architecture<\/a>, a Waterloo based studio long engaged in the connections between urban planning and rail transport.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

Jonathan Smales, HumanNature<\/strong> \u2013 Phoenix, place making and the future of low to no car districts.<\/p>\n

\n
\nIn Depth <\/i><\/summary>\n

\"\"
\nRender HumanNature<\/small><\/p>\n

The PhoenixLewes<\/a> is a major \u2018eco-development\u2019 with multiple sustainability ambitions both for Lewes and for 21st century urban design internationally. A key aspiration is its ground-breaking low-to-no car eco-housing approach. Jonathan Smales<\/strong>, founder and director of HumanNature, the PhoenixLewes\u2019s developer, will explore the 21st century potential of such low-to-no car urban design for place-making, a concern close to Smales\u2019 heart, given his background with Greenpeace, and as founder of the millennial-era Earth Centre project.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

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III \u2013 Envisioning digital tech and transport infrastructure futures<\/i><\/p>\n

Harmen Zijp<\/strong>, De WAR Fab Lab, Amersfoort – A grass roots perspective to sustainable transport<\/p>\n

\n
\nIn Depth <\/i><\/summary>\n

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\nArduino air pollution sensor built by Dewar Fablab \u2013 Photo Oliver Lowenstein<\/small><\/p>\n

With a background in science and arts, Harmen Zijp is an independent researcher and organiser of various grass roots initiatives. These range from public facilities for open innovation and culture to tools for democratic decision making. This includes an open-source air pollution sensor project deployed by citizen scientists to map air pollution levels across regional cities, towns and urban districts in the Netherlands and Norway, a variant of which they brought to Lewes for the Particulate workshop<\/a> in November 2023. Harmen is a co-founder of De WAR<\/a>, a hub for grass roots innovation in Amersfoort, The Netherlands.<\/p>\n

A feature<\/a> on the story of the De WAR so far, is in Fourth Door Review\u2019s<\/a> new no 12 edition.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

Nick Tyler<\/strong>, director, PEARL, UCL, & Ian Goodfellow<\/strong> (Perkins & Will Architects) –<\/p>\n

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\nIn Depth <\/i><\/summary>\n

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\nInside UCL\u2019s PEARL Lab \u2013 Photo Perkins & Will Architecture<\/small><\/p>\n

Nick Tyler<\/a> is Director of the University of London College\u2019s PEARL<\/a> (Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory)<\/strong>, a unique lab and massive warehouse space in East London, in which \u2018life-sized environments\u2019 can be created \u2013 a railway station, high street, town square \u2013 under controlled conditions, to examine how people interact with the environment and other people in such places. Transport related research includes testing accessibility in shared spaces, Thameslink carriage use research, and developing a universal sound to alert road-users of approaching E-Scooters.<\/p>\n

Ian Goodfellow<\/strong> \u2013 PEARL isn\u2019t only a unique lab but required a unique piece of architecture to house it. Ian Goodfellow<\/a>, PEARL\u2019s design lead and principal and design director at Perkins&Will\u2019s London office (formerly PenoyrePrasad Architects) will accompany Nick Tyler\u2019s talk with an overview of the design thinking and execution required to realise PEARL\u2019s unusual brief.<\/p>\n

An Unstructured<\/em> feature on PEARL will be live shortly.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n

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\nRiding On Empty exhibition at CCANW, Devon in 2008 \u2013 Photo CCANW<\/small><\/p>\n

The Cycle Stations Project\u2019s Riding On Empty<\/strong> \u2013 A micro-exhibition for a micro-symposium
\nFourth Door Research will also re-exhibit Riding On Empty<\/a>, the Cycle-Stations Project exhibition, including full in-depth banner exhibition, models, and examples of projects, etc.<\/p>\n

The Cycle-Stations Project<\/a> was a Fourth Door Research<\/a> project live between 1998-2008, which married sustainable transport with timber construction and sustainable architecture. In collaboration with Brighton University, the Cycle-Stations Project was awarded a six-figure three-year Interreg grant running between 2004 and 2006. It includes proposals for re-opening the Lewes-Uckfield rail corridor as an integrated cycle-rail greenway.<\/p>\n

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Fourth Door micro-symposia and events<\/h3>\n

Earlier Fourth Door micro-symposia have included Heart, Hearth & Housing<\/a>, and Health, Habitats and Hubs<\/a>. See here<\/a> for other Fourth Door talks and related live events.<\/p>\n

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Other Information<\/h3>\n

Fourth Door<\/a> – is a media, communications, events, and research platform, generally working in collaboration with a variety of partners. In addition, Fourth Door Research provides one-off consultancy and research.<\/p>\n

Intersections <\/strong>is hosted by Fourth Door<\/a> in association with MakingLewes<\/a><\/p>\n

For further information please contact Fourth Door:
\n0044(0)1273 473501<\/a>
\neditorial@fourthdoor.org<\/a>
\nwww.fourthdoor.org<\/a><\/p>\n

The Intersections micro-symposium is supported by Lewes District Council<\/strong> and the Chalk Cliff Trust<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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