Episode 01 · 3:00
Will the bicycle disappear?
If energy becomes cheap and plentiful, does the bicycle lose its purpose? A question about short trips, city space, human effort and keeping choices open.
End Up Here · six silent visual essays · 2036
Bikes in 2036
What might a bicycle be for when the world around it changes? Twelve short visual essays explore bicycles from everyday needs to stranger futures beyond the street.
An imaginative design exercise. These films consider possible choices; they do not claim to predict 2036 or announce existing products. Each is a silent, image-and-text video, exactly three minutes long.
Six questions, six imagined machines
Choose a journey
Every episode puts an ordinary need beside a design trade-off; episodes 7–12 take the series beyond the street into more speculative worlds. Watch here, or download the MP4 for offline viewing. The full essays are written into each film; no narration or soundtrack is used.
Episode 02 · 3:00
Tyres: the road beneath us
Comfort, grip, punctures, repair and smart features all meet in the small patch between a bicycle and the road.
Episode 03 · 3:00
How much motor is enough?
Pedal assist, motor placement and batteries change what a bicycle can do—and how it behaves around other people.
Episode 04 · 3:00
What should a future bike be made of?
Steel, aluminium and composites each offer a different balance of weight, repair, lifecycle and reuse.
Episode 05 · 3:00
Can a bike carry a family day?
Longtails, front boxes and trikes reshape how a family moves through routes, weather, parking and everyday plans.
Episode 06 · 3:00
Could you live on a bicycle?
A deliberately speculative touring cycle unfolds a small sleeping shelter—and asks how little space a journey might need.
Episodes 07–12 · Beyond the street
Take the idea somewhere stranger
A wall becomes a road. A bicycle catches the wind, grows into a living form, or rolls beneath another world’s sky. These six visual essays stretch the bicycle into speculative places and ask what each strange future would demand of people and public life.
Episode 07 · 3:00 · beyond the street
The bicycle that rides the walls
Imagine a city where cycle routes climb the walls and cross above traffic. This silent visual essay explores a vertical street as an imaginative 2036 design scenario, not a forecast or existing technology.
Episode 08 · 3:00 · beyond the street
Could your bike sail across the city?
A bicycle unfurls a small sail and turns a waterfront journey into a meeting with the wind. This silent visual essay imagines the trade-offs of a sailing cycle in 2036; it is not a forecast or product announcement.
Episode 09 · 3:00 · beyond the street
The bicycle that becomes a bridge
What if a bicycle could unfold into a small crossing over a stream or flooded lane? This silent visual essay treats the bridge-bike as a speculative design question about public access, structure, weight and shared ownership—not an engineering plan.
Episode 10 · 3:00 · beyond the street
What if a bicycle grew?
A bicycle imagined as a living structure trained around a frame: roots, fibres and repair become part of the story. This silent visual essay uses speculative design imagery, not biological research or a forecast.
Episode 11 · 3:00 · beyond the street
Could you cycle on another world?
A bicycle glides through a pressurised lunar habitat beneath a view of Earth. This silent visual essay imagines everyday mobility in an off-world settlement, not a claim about current lunar transport or a settled future.
Episode 12 · 3:00 · beyond the street
What if a city moved as one bicycle?
Thousands of ordinary bicycles imagined as one moving pattern: a city-wide ride that shifts with people, routes and time. This silent visual essay is a speculative civic thought experiment, not a transport prediction.
End Up Here · possible futures
Which bicycle would you choose?
The year 2036 is a lens for asking what should stay useful: a repairable tyre, a cycle that carries a family, or a quiet way across town. These films leave the answer open.