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Brussels" at the ULB, Faculty of Architecture La Cambre-Horta. Her main research interests are the production, reception and representation of public space in contemporary cities. More particularly, she investigates the links between public space and public sphere: how designing public spaces can foster common debates and actions and how common debates and actions can reshape public spaces? Biba Tominc is a geographer working at the Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia. She specializes in graphic design, data visualization, database creation, analysis and management, and explores how to demonstrate spatial data in clear, effective and friendly way for different users and different media. She is also a postgraduate student of Philosophy and Theory of Visual Culture at the University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities. Matej Nikšič is an architect and holds an MA degree in urban design from Oxford Brookes University and a PhD in architecture from the University of Ljubljana. He works as a researcher at the Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia in the fields of detailed urban design and place identity by design. His research focuses on open urban public spaces in general and users' mental conceptions of these spaces in particular.