Biciosxs (Spain) Sample Clauses

Biciosxs (Spain). Context and activities Biciosxs can be described as a place, a group and an idea. Starting from the idea, Xxxxxxxx represents the act of occupying abandoned terrains in order to give them socially and environmentally sustainable function, such as communal bike repair. A core group of four or five committed individuals maintain the space and its infrastructure, while its users come to repair their bicycles in a given day of the week, using the skills of the long-term group if needed. One of its key principles is recycling and bartering. Monetary intermediation is not acceptable. One of the messages one reads upon the wall when entering is: “This autonomously managed workshop with no money and no hurry. The tools are free for using as long as you put them back at their place. Technical support is available upon a polite request. The parts you can get via barter. You can either bring bicycle parts or tools which do not make you serve”. The group considers the bicycle as an alternative to the consumerist society imposing cars and asphalt. In terms the space, the project is located in an occupied garage in Xxx Xxxxxx, Barcelona, one of the peripheral neighbourhoods of the city, known for its diversity of cultures and nationalities. About 30% of its users are migrants, who come into contact with the culture of voluntary simplicity, recycling, and creating alternatives to the monetary market-based economy. The workshop performs an important social function of teaching bicycle repair techniques in a friendly and open environment, and most importantly in a form accessible for all due to the barter and recycling system. Interesting features of the initiative It is the project with the highest level of organic social inclusivity amongst all ones studied in the TESS sample for Catalunya. While the nature Biciosxs is the field of mobility, its domain within TESS research is rather waste. The initiative uses primarily old, unused and abandoned bicycles and associated parts, which would not have been given a productive use otherwise, thus contributing to a more efficient resource use and lower GHG emissions.