public space

A public space is a social space that is generally open and accessible to people. Roads (including the pavement), public squares, parks and beaches are typically considered public space. To a limited extent, government buildings which are open to the public, such as public libraries are public spaces, although they tend to have restricted areas and greater limits upon use. Although not considered public space, privately owned buildings or property visible from sidewalks and public thoroughfares may affect the public visual landscape, for example, by outdoor advertising. Recently, the concept of Shared space has been advanced to enhance the experience of pedestrians in public space jointly used by automobiles and other vehicles.

Public space has also become something of a touchstone for critical theory in relation to philosophy, (urban) geography, visual art, cultural studies, social studies and urban design. The term ‘public space’ is also often misconstrued to mean other things such as ‘gathering place’, which is an element of the larger concept of social space.

One of the earliest examples of public spaces are commons. For example, no fees or paid tickets are required for entry. Non-government-owned malls are examples of ‘private space’ with the appearance of being ‘public space’.

25. January 2016

Press conference Light and shadow

On June 12, 2015 was held a press conference for the event, which is dedicated to the International Year of Light and light-based technologies (UNO). Press […]
22. January 2016

Workshop Fine Arts Department of Photography

After almost two years are door of the training center of creativity and concentration at Academy of Fine Arts in Kremnica open again. Reconstruction of areas […]
17. January 2016

Videomapping in Gelnica

On Friday, September 25, 2015, could visitors of Miners Day event see the first video mapping carried out in the eastern Slovakia town Gelnica. During rainy […]
14. December 2015

Medieval legend about unhappy love

Another legend from the medieval history of Trenčín was told to the hundreds of people in the audience on a Friday 26th June 2015 by the main […]
28. November 2015

Light camp

On the July 15th – 20th there was the first year of Light camp in Trebišov. It is an art symposium focused at lighting and intermedia […]
28. November 2015

About the Valentine, the water man

The dominant od the Stur´s Square is the statue of sprite – water man Valentine. He was part of the performance of itinerant theater in the […]
28. November 2015

Illumination of Advent

For the December event ‘Magic of Christmas in Trenčín artists Lukas Matejka (TRAKT) and Pavol Soukal created visual mapping projections, particular for a symbol of Trenčín […]
28. November 2015

Nomads land Praha

TRAKT (SK) and Mamapapa (CZ) took part in the December residence “Nomads Land” in Prague. The area of DIVUS SPACE was for artists the base and […]
28. November 2015

Nomads land Košice

During the last October week visual team from Hopes and Memories project took a place in Košice, in east part of Slovakia. Artist from TRAKT and […]
28. November 2015

H&M Residence Wroclaw

Lukas Matejka (TRAKT), Tomas Zizka (Mamapapa) and Agnieszka Ćwieląg attended residency in Wroclaw. Artists were participating and Avant Art Festival, and by night walked to the […]
28. November 2015

Beamvertising, Divadelna Nitra

TRAKT participated at the International Theatre Festival Nitra 2013 with the project Beamvertising forthright in the streets of Nitra. Projections especially prepared for this festival, have […]
28. November 2015

Digital city

We decided to organize project Digital City because of the need to bring the trends of contemporary fine art among young people in Trencin. This idea […]
28. November 2015

Slovak beamvertising

TRAKT premiered the project Slovak beamvertising in the streets of Trencin, Dubnica nad Vahom and vicinity on August 25th 2013. During the night were projected unconventional […]
28. November 2015

Skyway

Lighting Up the Wonders of the Elements. In its third edition, SKYWAY ’11 draws the analogy between the richness of the experience that light based art delivers and […]
28. November 2015

Christmas illumination of town tower

Last weekend before Christmas TRAKT with City of Trencin prepared this project for citzens. They could see large scale projection – mapping on the town tower […]