Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities: Narrating, Experiencing, Contesting
From 19-21 August 2020, the annual Aboagora symposium took place in Turku, Finland. Apart from the main event, it also included a two-day pre-symposium for doctoral candidates and art students (17-18 August). PUTSPACE members Silja Laine and Aleksandra Ianchenko took part and here they reflect on what was in many ways an interesting and memorable …
By Maxwell Woods Today, 18 October 2020, Chile celebrates the one-year anniversary of what has come to be known as the Chilean social explosion [estallido social]. A bottom-up challenge to the foundations of the Chilean political, social, and economic landscape, the ‘social explosion’ is the name given to the five months of political mobilizations by …
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By Adam Borch Erich Kästner’s popular children’s novel Emil und die detektive (1929) begins with an introduction to some of the story’s most important characters and places, accompanied by Walter Trier’s original illustrations. One of these is “[a] rather important train compartment” (p.13) about which we’re told: The train this coach belongs to travels to …
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Written by Tonio Weicker and Wladimir Sgibnev This blog post was written for Geography Directions. To read the full post, please follow the link below. Over the last couple of months, it is clear that the Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically shifted the way people perceive and use public transport. Restrictions have been enforced across the …
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By Tauri Tuvikene and Wojciech Kębłowski PUTSPACE team members Tauri Tuvikene and Wojciech Kębłowski co-edited a special issue in the Journal of Transport Geography. The special issue on decolonial approaches to urban transport geographies published in a leading academic journal for transport scholars Journal of Transport Geography was driven by the desire to socialise transport …
Written by Tauri Tuvikene and Jason Finch In June 2020, Tauri Tuvikene (Tallinn University) and Jason Finch (Åbo Akademi University) reflected on the connections of public transport and landscape at a conference on “Unruly Landscapes. Mobility, Transcience and Transformation” organised by CeMoRe at Lancaster University and the Centre for Mobility and Humanities at the University …
An intern at PUTSPACE project, Agata Mielczarek, analysed public transport and social inequalities in Tallinn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igGR5W8hL_w&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3S-z4pIAStJvC7fYaD6PuMqauUm5AT6LLAA892IDmbbHX7MHUxPleqqqY This video depicts public transport connectivity of the city of Tallinn: how long it takes to get to the city centre from different parts of the city? The city centre is represented in this video by Viru Centre. Of course, …
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Session at RC21 Antwerp “Sensing the city”, 6–8 July 2020 Convenors: Wojciech Kębłowski (Cosmopolis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), wojciech.keblowski@vub.be Tauri Tuvikene (Tallinn University, Estonia), tauri.tuvikene@tlu.ee Silja Laine (University of Turku, Finland), silaine@utu.fi Contemporary cities are increasingly structured by how (im)mobility is experienced, narrated and contested. And yet, urban studies—particularly those building on …
By Aleksandra Ianchenko and Tauri Tuvikene An artist and PUTSPACE doctoral researcher Aleksandra Iachenko and PUTSPACE Project Leader Tauri Tuvikene report from a tram performance in Tallinn organised on 5 December 2019). The performance was a result of collaboration between Aleksandra from PUTSPACE project, Erki Kasemets (Polygon Theatre) and a group of Estonian Academy of …
Session at the International Conference of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T²M) Paris, 16 – 19 October 2019 “Public transport as public space”. Session convenors Tauri Tuvikene, Wojciech Kębłowski, Wladimir Sgibnev. Conference website: https://t2mparis2019.sciencesconf.org/
