What if the street wasn’t infrastructure, but culture? Sydney’s streets are built for movement, but rarely for meaning. Car-Free Sundays is not a transport intervention — it’s a civic experiment. What if every Sunday, we suspended car dominance and reactivated the street as a site of care, culture, and collective imagination? Currently in development as the flagship project of The Mutiny Bureau, Car-Free Sundays Sydney is a provocation and a prototype. It’s about reclaiming public space not just as pavement, but as commons. Streets become schools. Bike rides become strategy. Movement becomes policy. This isn’t just about closing roads. It’s about opening up the system. Approach (in motion) • Reimagining city streets as infrastructures of care — holding people, ecosystems and futures at once • Building The Mutiny Bureau as a creative civic studio to incubate cultural, ecological and governance shifts • Anchoring the project in four interconnected transitions: ◦ Culture change: cycling as collective joy and everyday freedom ◦ Regenerative economics: local value creation, distributed care economies ◦ Democratic renewal: reimagining who decides how we move and live together ◦ Governance models: participatory tools and post-institutional rhythms • Positioning the project as a civic scaffold; where activism, education, bike shops, art, transport reform, and policy innovation intersect Impact (anticipated) • Activate streets as weekly laboratories for cultural change and civic co-creation • Build a replicable model for city-led rituals that reconnect infrastructure with imagination • Align grassroots and government through shared vision and distributed ownership • Make cycling not a policy afterthought — but a signal of a more human, joyful, ecological future
2025