e-publicspace.net – Public Space Encyclopedia

As part of a research project entitled UrbansSystems/Urban Models (USUM) that brings together Laboratories of ETHZ (Studio Basel), Università della Svizzera italiana, and EPFL, a specific research on public space is being undertaken by the lab. Chôros (http://choros.epfl.ch). This research confronts theory and empiricism and attempts to analyze the complexity of public spaces in cities. Is public space a universal concept?

Creating e-publicspace.net : an Encyclopedia of public space
For this research, we are creating a website which will be an Encyclopedia of public space.  we are looking for documents and projects on this issue: texts (theory, anthology, bibliography), images (photographs, videos, maps, drawings) and sounds. If you are geographer, urban planner, architect, engineer, artist, sociologist, landscape historian, philosophers, political scientists, etc. you can contribute to e-publicspace.net.

Instructions

All documents are Royalty Free and should be sent by mail to the webmaster Annelore Schneider : annelore@collectif-fact.ch
Image format: one side of the image should be at least 1024 pixels.
Images and videos weight: if they exceed 6MB send them via ftp.
Languages of texts: English or French
Languages for images, videos and sounds (interviews): English, French, Spanish, Italian, German. No translation will be made.
Language for the legends of visual documents and sounds: English.
All documents must be dated.
All documents will be accompanied by a proposal for 5 keywords in English.
For more information, please contact Véronique Mauron, project manager at veronique.mauron@epfl.ch.