The journal On the w@terfront published a number dedicated to the PSSS. The content corresponds to the presentation of the project in Barcelona within the seminar “Public Space: challenges and opportunities” and it consists of three articles in video format: “Presentation of the PSSS”: resumo + vídeo “Public space evaluation – concepts and tools”: resumo + vídeo “Antofagasta, a context of local and global public […]
European Prize for Urban Public Space 2018
The 25 finalists for the European Prize for Urban Public Space is now published, 3 of them are Portuguese: here.
Newsletter February 2018
PSSS’s newsletter with a summary of the most recent project activities here.
Barcelona seminar – Public Space: challenges and opportunities – January 2018
The PSSS was presented in Barcelona at the seminar “Public space: challenges and opportunities”. The following visits have also occurred: Inhabited projects I (Bon Pastor) guided by Associació de Veïns i Veïnes del Bon Pastor Inhabited projects II (Baró de Viver) guided by X. Salas e T. Vidal (CR POLIS-UB) ‘Commo-disney- fication’: charms and conflicts guided by […]
Discussion session with stakeholders (Dec 2017)
On December 11, 2017, PSSS held an afternoon of discussion with various stakeholders on issues of public space, it consisted by practical applications of the project’s concepts and collection of views on the evaluation tool under development. The session had a group of 21 participants composed by planners, managers, users, representatives of municipalities and other […]
Public Space: challenges and opportunities – a three-day international seminar – Barcelona, January 15th-17th, 2018
The University of Barcelona team is organizing a seminar that will take place from the 15th to the 17th of January with the following content: Public space, as an urban service system: presentation of the PSSS project, cultures and practices of urban design, principles of the project: interdisciplinarity, conceptual and epistemological framework, tools for public space interpretation […]
Workshop “Public Space as Urban Trigger”
From 13 to 17 November 2017, a workshop was held under the ATHENS program at the Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon, with the theme “Public Space as Urban Trigger – Unfolding Lisbon’s paradigm”. It was intended to present the theme “Public Space” at various scales (from micro to macro) in an interdisciplinary way, indispensable to […]
workshop ‘The Value (s) of the Public Space: Actors, Services and Systems’
From 7 to 12 November 2017, was held in Porto the workshop ‘The Value (s) of the Public Space: Actors, Services and Systems’. With the objective of constructing the prospective analysis of a territory based on its System of Collective Spaces, understood as a fundamental element the structuring, use and reading of urban space. During four […]
Survey release
PSSS is releasing a survey to gather opinions and points of view with different perspectives on the public space, extended to all those who want to collaborate in it.