Walk/Bike/Places 2020 Is Going Online

We hope this conference update finds you safe and healthy. Our New York City based team and local Indianapolis partners have been working long and hard behind the scenes on our plans for Walk/Bike/Places 2020, so that we could bring you the best and safest event in response to the effects that COVID-19 has had on you and on us.

Today, we are pleased to share that Walk/Bike/Places 2020 will now be presented online. This change in format allows our current program to continue, despite the personal, professional, and financial uncertainties facing so many people that will continue in the months ahead.

Updates on the Conference Program

We will be sticking to our conference theme of Implementation—a theme which has become even more relevant at this moment in time. This online gathering provides us with a time to step back and explore some of the incredible (and imperfect) work taking place right now in the realms of active transportation, public space and public health.

Our program will still include dozens of breakout sessions, spread across the four-day event, and as a bonus, participants will have access to view all sessions on their own time for many months after the event.

In response to the impact that COVID-19 has had on us all personally and professionally, we look forward to serving as a platform for shared experiences, lessons learned, and practical solutions that will be helpful to you for years to come. In the face of such hard times, we find some hope in knowing that our work will soon be more important than ever as we face challenges, new and old, like recovery, resilience, and inequality in our communities. 

We hope you will join us, and we look forward to sharing this new experience with you.

Articles & Resources

Below are a few links to articles and resources that capture some of what is on our minds at this moment. We expect that these topics will fuel many of the conversations we have at this year's online event:

• In our host city Indianapolis, a group of artists are turning plain plywood planks on downtown businesses into works of art (Nuvo)
   
• A new guide to adapting streets for pandemic response and recovery (NACTO)
   
• A manifesto on how to create and protect places that recognize, affirm, and amplify Black agency, discourse, and thought (BlackSpace)
   
• Watch Oakland's open streets in action (StreetsBlogNYC)
   
• An article on how designers can work toward justice in alignment with the Movement for Black Lives (CityLab)
   
• A call to remake our sense of place post-COVID-19 (The Conversation)
   
• Recovery will happen in public space (Project for Public Spaces)

Sponsorship & Exhibitors

Interested in sponsoring Walk/Bike/Places 2020? Conference sponsorship is the perfect way to support the biking, walking, and placemaking movement. Learn more.

Please reach out to us to learn more about the many ways you can participate at program@walkbikeplaces.org