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US Rebar group head John Bela thanked "YARAT!" management for invitation to the PARTİCİPATE" Baku Public Art" festival, noting that "Parkcycle" project was specially designed for the festival,AzerTag state news agency reported.

Bela, who is visiting Baku for the first time, said the city inspires him.

He noted that "PARTICİPATE" Baku Public Art" festival is very important for the exposure of the modern art pieces in the public places.

Rebar created the world's first pedal-powered public park: the Parkcycle in 2007. On the occasion of Participate: Baku Public Art Festival 2013, Rebar and N55 with Till Wolfer have created a novel evolution of the piece: Parkcycle SwarmParkcycle Swarm is an open source, public space distribution system. Individual pedal powered Parkcyles function as independent subunits, but join together quickly and easily to create an aggregate public space. Parkcycle Swarm is a collaboration between John Bela of Rebar Group and N55 with Till Wolfer. Parkcycle Swarm has the potential to grow exponentially, as people use N55′s open source plans to create their own iterations of the piece. N55 recently released Parkcycle Swarm for a prototype test run in Copenhagen. The piece performed beautifully, delivering a context for unique social interactions across the famous Danish city known for its bicycle culture.

John is a landscape architect and artist who creates original environments to deliver unique, inspiring experiences. John co-founded Rebar in 2005 and has created some of the firm's most ground breaking and memorable work. John is a pioneer in user-generated urbanism, and has successfully completed many projects that involve radical new formulations of social space. John is a Senior Lecturer at the California College of Arts in San Francisco and a Distinguished Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. John holds degrees in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design from the University of California, Berkeley; Biochemistry from the University of Massachusetts; and Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. John is a registered Landscape Architect in the state of California.