Archive for the 'Europe' Category

I dropped in on Stepas, we talked about life

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Arturas Valiauga: I dropped in on Stepas, we talked about life (2002-2003)
An old lady and her middle-aged son live in a modestly furnished house. Some of the photos show the two of them at home, on the sofa, at the kitchen table, or on the edge of the bed. What was most important to the […]

When Parkour and Soccer Converge….

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

We’re all familiar with parkour, the urban-assault-a-la-Spiderman phenomenon from France.

So what happens when parkour is paired with le football? (Assuming the video is not some sort of computer-graphics-enhanced mashup….)

- Matthew

The Thames Path

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Chris Heathcote has curated a lovely set of images that shows the Thames Path.

Not a standard urban space, more one that stitches London’s best together, The Thames Path slices through the city from the Thames Barrier to Surrey and beyond to the river source.
Other national walks, like the Capital Ring, are man-made; the Thames Path […]

Academic spaces and citizen researchers

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Despite the fact that academics like to research all kinds of social spaces, there are hardly any studies of the social spaces where research is done. But every now and then we get glimpses, like this story about Parisian academics being “banished to the banlieues”:
The three institutions that are being turned out of their ancestral […]

Lisbon

Monday, January 14th, 2008

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- Anne

International journal & weblog dedicated to social spaces of all kinds.