Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities: Narrating, Experiencing, Contesting
HERA PUTSPACE team members organise a session at Finnish Urban Studies Days in Helsinki 14.-15.5.2020. We seek papers that deal with public transport from cultural, technological, artistic or conceptual angles. We are particularly interested in papers that concentrate on the history of public transport, changes in public transport, the politics of public transport, and embodied, …
“Narrations, Experiences and Contestations of Public Transport in European Cities” – Due to the current situation confronting us as a result of spread of COVID 19, we will have to cancel the Putspace Summer Symposium scheduled on June 1-6, 2020 in Minsk. The symposium will be postponed to a later stage. We will keep you …
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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 …
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/
This week saw the official launch, in Ireland, of the HERA Joint Research Programme, ‘Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe (2019-2022)’. At the same time, public statements describing PUTSPACE were issued in Finland (details in English here, with Swedish and Finnish version available via buttons at top right) and in Estonia, where there was …
