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Jobim Bimbao, PhD (Landscape Architect)

Jobim Bimbao, PhD

Landscape Architect

Jose Antonio Bimbao, or Jobim, loves to ride bikes. He enjoys cycling the most when he can experience unique landscapes while challenging his fitness and perseverance in covering long distances and/or higher elevations. He recently completed his Ph.D. Program on Architecture and Urban Design of the Chaoyang University of Technology or CYUT in Taichung City, Taiwan. In CYUT, he fused his interest in active mobility with his landscape architecture background into a dissertation that focused on the landscape management of cycling recreation. Before his Taiwanese cycling research life, he was a practicing landscape architect in the Philippines, part of the University of the Philippines College of Architecture Faculty, and an active Philippine Association of Landscape Architects member.

Facebook: Jobim Bimbao
IG: living_bikecariously / jobimstagram
Email: jobimbao@gmail.com

LArch. Rosanne Aldeguer and Atty. Twylah Rubin (Lakbike)

LArch. Rosanne Aldeguer and Atty. Twylah Rubin (Lakbike)

Lakbike - queer couple Ros and Twy - love traveling and exploring by bike, with beer or bottle of wine. They believe in the practical, symbolic, and transformative power of bikes in the empowerment of women and girls, and advocate for safe spaces for all.

In 2023 @lakbike toured in Japan and the bike-trekked the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal. They also started Lakbike Kababaihan and Lakbike Bikeshare, aiming to share the freedom of bike rides to marginalized women and girls.

Twyla is currently biking the streets of Geneva while Ros braves the chaos of Commonwealth on a daily basis.

LArch. Sophia Silvestre (Landscape Architect at North-South Commuter Railway Extension Project of the Department of Transportation)

LArch. Sophia Silvestre

Landscape Architect at North-South Commuter Railway Extension Project of the Department of Transportation

Sophia Silvestre is an active transport advocate with a keen interest in the interplay between transport and spatial planning. She graduated from the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture, and is now working on the North-South Commuter Railway Extension (NSCR-Ex, pronounced: en-es-see-are-ex) Project of the Department of Transportation. The NSCR-Ex is the majority of a 147-km railway system connecting Clark, Pampanga to Calamba, Laguna; effectively linking Region III, the National Capital Region, and Region IV-A of the Philippines.

With a personal commitment to enhancing urban mobility through evidence-based solutions, she is currently holding dual deputy-team lead roles in the infrastructure design division for the Stations and Depot Design Management workstream and the Project’s Transit-Oriented Developments (TOD) Initiative.

One of her major responsibilities is ensuring that all twenty-five (25) stations of the NSCR-Ex are safe, efficient, accessible, and multi-modal, to guarantee maximum comfort and ease throughout the entirety of the passenger journey. In a broader perspective, she and her team are studying TODs and utilizing its planning and design, social, economic, and sustainability strategies to aid in the development of towns, municipalities, and cities that the railway traverses.

Sophia shares the belief of many that transport should be inclusive, and that that can be achieved when transit infrastructure is responsive to the people’s needs. When she’s not cycling to work, hunched over her work laptop, or having a spirited discussion with stakeholders and government officials regarding the importance of sidewalks, you can often see her brisk-walking around the UP campus with a gaggle of friends on an early Sunday morning.