Dream Machines showcases discarded bicycles transformed into imaginative, fully functional human-powered vehicles through a collaboration between Sam Fox School students enrolled in Lindsey Stouffer’s course Upcycles: Form, Function, and Design, and St. Louis BWorks alumni. The project combines design, fabrication, and community engagement, and celebrates creativity, technical skill, and empowerment. Visitors are invited to experience the intersection of art, engineering, and social engagement, and to see how thoughtful design can transform both objects and lives.
Collaborating partners include Lindsey Stouffer (Senior Lecturer of Art and Architecture, WashU Sam Fox School), Patrick Van Der Tuin (Executive Director, ST. Louis BWorks), Evie Hemphill (Programs Director, St. Louis BWorks), as well as 10 WashU students enrolled in the course Up-Cycles: Form, Function, and Design, and 9 alumni from the St. Louis Bicycle Works Earn a Bike program.
This exhibition is partially funded by a grant from the Office for Socially Engaged Practice in the WashU Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.