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Press Release: “Don’t Look Down” – video series exploring the Metro 3 Project in Brussels, Belgium

“‘Don’t Look Down’: une série pour explorer les dessous du métro 3” is a series of videos published between 7 March and 5 April which look to popularise and fuel the debates surrounding the new metro line project in Brussels. The videos have been directed by PUTSPACE fellow Gwenaël Breës along with Cédric Castus and …

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CfP: Public Transport as Public Space

To download the Call for Papers. The Event The conference Public Transport as Public Space is organised within PUTSPACE, a research project led by academics in Tallinn, Leipzig, Turku and Brussels. Both the conference and project explore what makes public transport a type of public space, and for whom. As public transport continues to be explored primarily by …

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Estonian Cultural Endowment Award for Elle-Mari Talivee

A few weeks ago, we were happy to tell that PUTSPACE Fellow Elle-Mari Talivee had been nominated for the Estonian Cultural Endowment’s Article Award for her article “Public Transport in Estonian Literature” (2020). We are now even happier to report that Talivee won the award! Her article was published in the Estonian journal Keel ja …

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‘I thought he wanted to do me harm’: Hans Christian Andersen Riding a London Cab, 1857

In the summer of 1857, Hans Christian Andersen visited Charles Dickens, spending an ill-fated five weeks at his home, Gads Hill, Kent. During the visit they made frequent trips to London where Andersen got to experience the city’s public transportation system firsthand. On one of these trips a peculiar incident occurred which shows how locals …

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