The Cyclists Pocket Square was built between May and September 2014 in the Brazilian city of Curitiba, under a collective effort, in an initiative that emerged from the meetings held at the 3rd World Bicycle Forum, which took place earlier that year in the same city.
Cyclists Pocket Square location.
The square's location before, during and after its completion. (Google Street View)
In the graffiti on the left, ETs say "Go by bike, earthling!"; other pictures show several stages of the square. Pictures by Matheus Allegretti Mendes (left), Doug Oliveira (center) and Yasmin Reck (bottom right corner)
Customizing the cargo bike of Bernard, a French baker who hanged around us for a good part of the construction process before continuing his bike travel through South America. (Pictures by Rafael Buratto)
One of many gigs that took place while the square was being built. The "backstage" image is a stencil made by me a few years earlier depicting the first bike in my adult life, the "Monstruous" ("Monstrenga"). (Picture by Doug Oliveira)
My final contribution: another bike themed stencil in one of the square's wall, this time depicting my first bike, a Caloi Berlineta. Thus, two of my first bikes kind of faced each other for a while, since the stencil shown in the picture above this one was right across the street. None of the stencils remained. (Pictures by Beto Varella)
Some of the first "praceiros". "Praceiro" is not a word of common use in Portuguese, its original meaning being related to "things in plain view of everyone, things related to squares ('praças')". In this case, it was used to evoke the word "parceiro" ("partner") which is usually a friendly designation, as well as our condition of workers at the square's construction, since the suffix "-eiro" is related to people of a given profession, like "marceneiro" (woodworker), "pedreiro" (mason) or "padeiro" (baker). (Pictures by Doug Oliveira)
