DeepNic aims to investigate the evolution and transformation of Nicosia’s urban centre from a historical and sociological perspective using several types of data such as written, oral, and visual. It takes the whole of the urban centre of Nicosia as a case study, to examine how its transformation within a certain period is affected by key political and social developments that have occurred from 1960 until today, namely, the proclamation of the independence, the 1963-64 intercommunal strife, the 1974 war and the division of the island; the beginning of the Master Plan in 1979; the unilateral proclamation of the regime in 1983; first mass granting of employment permissions to immigrants in the 1990s; the opening of the crossings in 2003; the financial crisis in 2013; and the pandemic measures in 2020.
In this project, historical research is combined with geography and technology in a data visualization effort that allows a multi-temporal and multi-dimensional historical narrative. The method of deep mapping will be therefore applied, as it seems to offer the means to accomplish the objectives of this project, which are:
Authors: Antigone Heraclidou, CYENS Centre of Excellence & Esra Plümer-Bardak, Association for Historical
Dialogue and Research
Date: 14/4/2022
Place: Nicosia
Description: CYENS Centre of Excellence invites a diverse group of local technologists, industry, governmental and civil society representatives, as well as researchers, academics and invited artists, to unpack the power of data based on their practises and in relevance to the Cypriot context and realities. Special focus is drawn on issues of socio-environmental sustainability and equity, the role of different stakeholders and the dynamics of artistic practises as pillars in innovation and communication.
Date: 9/10/2022
Place: Nicosia
Description: A special crowdsourcing activity!
DeepNic is a history project investigating and ‘deep mapping’ the evolution and transformation of Nicosia’s urban centre through key political and social events between 1960 and 2020.
Contribute to a deeper understanding of our city by bringing your own photographs, documents, posters, newspaper clippings etc., at DeepNic’s scanning station at Home for Cooperation! With Antigone Heraclidou and Esra Plümer-Bardak.
Photo credits: Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival 2022/Ozan Tezvaran
Date: 24-26/11/2022
Place: Athens, Greece
Description: Συνέδριο 22 χρόνια Γεωγραφίες Κρίσεις – Αντιστάσεις – Προοπτικές (International Conference “22 years Geographies”)
Paper: Πολυεπίπεδη χαρτογράφηση του αστικού κέντρου της Λευκωσίας, 1960-2020 (Deep Mapping Nicosia’s urban centre, 1960-2020)