April 2021 – PUTSPACE

HERA Webinar: Rethinking Public Space in Times of Social Distancing

Events / By admin / 30th April 2021 30th April 2021

PUTSPACE is co-hosting HERA’s 3rd Webinar in 2021 alongside the projects The European Spa and Food2Gather. The theme is “Rethinking Public Space in Times of Social Distancing”. The webinar will take place on 11 May 2021, 14:00-15:30 CET. It is free to join, but requires pre-registrating. Registration can be done here. Keynotes speakers: Laurent Thévenot …

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Press Release: Comic Book Investigates the Tramways in Turku

Press / By admin / 26th April 2021 26th April 2021

The press release was first distributed on Åbo Akademi’s website and social media channels. A new comic by Giada Peterle combines the history of public transport in Turku, Finland, with citizens’ perspectives from different points in time. The comic book LINES creates a story based on narratives by the city’s inhabitants, and shows how public …

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Sketching Atmospheres at Public Transport Stops in Tallinn

Blog / By admin / 23rd April 2021 23rd April 2021

By Aleksandra Ianchenko In this post, artist and PhD student Aleksandra Ianchenko reflects on the use of sketching as a research method for understanding and describing atmosphere in public transport spaces. In the first part, she discusses sketching from a methodological perspective, considering some of its advantages as a way of approaching atmosphere as a …

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Publication: Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities

Blog / By admin / 16th April 2021 12th August 2021

PUTSPACE has published a working paper entitled Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities. (Authors: Tauri Tuvikene, Wojciech Kębłowski, Tonio Weicker, Jason Finch, Wladimir Sgibnev, Louise Sträuli, Silja Laine, Frédéric Dobruszkes, Aleksandra Ianchenko). The working paper which lays out the rationale and conceptual background of thinking of public transport as public space is now …

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CfP: Contesting Mobility from Below, Mobilising Bottom-up Contestations: Contemporary and Historical Explorations

Events / By admin / 15th April 2021 15th April 2021

PUTSPACE team members Wojciech Kębłowski, Tonio Weicker, Adam Borch and Tauri Tuvikene organise a session at the next T2M Conference to be held in Lisbon, Portugal from 2-5 November 2021. The deadline for submitting abstract to the organisers is 25 April 2021. The CfP can be downloaded as a PdF here. Contesting mobility from below, …

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Workshop Report: “Public-Oriented Mobility Through Digital Technology”

Blog / By admin / 6th April 2021 6th April 2021

By Karol Kurnicki On 9 March 2021, Karol Kurnicki organised an online workshop on the theme “Public-Oriented Mobility Through Digital Technology”. The workshop was part of Kurnicki’s PUTSPACE Fellowship at the Leibniz-Institute für Länderkunde (IfL). Participants Kirill Galustov (IfL), Wojciech Kębłowski (PUTSPACE), Meike Levin-Keitel (TU Dortmund), Indra Lukosiene (PUTSPACE), Ibrahim Mubiru (TU Dortmund), Egor Muleev …

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Month: April 2021