Stop and Go Nodes of Transformation and Transition

• Other Authors: Hieslmair, Michael (Editor), Zinganel, Michael (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin Sternberg Press 2019
• Series: Publication Serie of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 23
• Subjects: Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc; Public Spaces; Transit Spaces; Urban transformation; Mobility and Migration; Eastern Europe; Anthropology of Roads; (Social) Infrastructure; Networks and Nodes; Multi-sited ethnography; Cartography; Art based research
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

"Stop and Go: Nodes of Transformation and Transition was a research project by architect and artist Michael Hieslmair and cultural historian Michael Zinganel from Vienna in collaboration with geographer Tarmo Pikner from Tallinn and historian and anthropologist Emiliya Karaboeva from Sofia. The project focused on the transformation of hubs and terminals as well as formal and informal nodes along the network of pan-European road transport corridors connecting the former East and West of Europe. The book presents several trans-disciplinary case studies in the geographical triangle between Vienna, Tallinn and Helsinki and the Bulgarian-Turkish border. Each contribution investigates how differently the networks and temporary habitats of highly mobile actors along these road corridors - both in the posturban intermediate zones and in the city centers - have undergone and continue to undergo significant changes before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the enlargement of the EU, and the re-expansion of transport infrastructure."