Events

“Narrations, Experiences and Contestations of Public Transport in European Cities” Call for Applications The international project “Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities” (PUTSPACE) is pleased to announce the project’s Summer Symposium, taking place in Minsk, Belarus, on 1–6 June. The symposium is focussing on “Narrations, Experiences and Contestations of Public transport in European …

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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 …

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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 …

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