Velo-city 2025

Conference theme: Energizing Solidarity

Solidarity—an empathic, transformative force embraced by the citizens of Gdańsk in the 1980s—remains a powerful and enduring symbol, deeply woven into the city's identity. The globally recognized Solidarity movement embodies the collective aspiration to improve living conditions through unity and shared goals.

Similarly, cycling represents not only freedom and sustainability but it also symbolises the power to foster connection and joy. By promoting healthier lifestyles, road space reallocation and more equitable mobility systems, cycling can drive transformative change while contributing to the decarbonisation of transport and boosting the economy.

People are at the heart of Velo-city. We invite experts to share their work and discuss how cycling can energize people and lead a gentle revolution towards decarbonised and fair mobility systems and cities for all.

Movement

Movement is the crossing of space by people, objects, capital, ideas and other information. It is either oriented, and therefore occurs between an origin and one or more destinations, or it is more akin to the idea of simply wandering, with no real origin or destination.

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Mobility

For the Mobile Lives Forum, mobility is understood as the process of how individuals travel across distances in order to deploy through time and space the activities that make up their lifestyles. These travel practices are embedded in socio-technical systems, produced by transport and communication industries and techniques, and by normative discourses on these practices, with considerable social, environmental and spatial impacts.

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